Description

🌿 Ilex Aquifolium – English Holly Plants | 20–40cm | P9 Pots

Bring traditional evergreen beauty to your garden with Ilex aquifolium, commonly known as English Holly or Common Holly.

These attractive young holly plants are supplied by Meredith Nurseries at approximately 20–40cm tall in individual P9 nursery pots, ready for planting and establishing in your garden.

English Holly is a popular native British evergreen shrub, admired for its glossy green leaves, distinctive spiny edges and dense growth habit. It makes an excellent choice for garden hedging, wildlife-friendly planting, screening and decorative garden borders.

With its attractive evergreen foliage and traditional appearance, Ilex aquifolium is a wonderful addition to gardens throughout the UK.

🌱 Product Features

• 🌿 Botanical name: Ilex aquifolium.
• 📏 Supplied approximately 20–40cm tall.
• 🪴 Supplied in individual P9 nursery pots.
• 📦 Minimum order: 10 plants.
• 💚 Attractive glossy green evergreen foliage.
• 🍃 Distinctive spiny-edged leaves.
• 🌳 Native British evergreen shrub.
• 🏡 Ideal for hedging, screening and garden borders.
• 🐦 Provides valuable shelter and nesting cover for garden birds.
• 🍒 Female plants may produce attractive red berries when pollinated by a compatible male plant.
• ❄️ Hardy and suitable for UK gardens.

🌳 Why Choose English Holly?

English Holly is a fantastic choice for gardeners looking for a traditional evergreen shrub that provides year-round interest.

Its dense foliage makes it particularly useful for creating natural garden boundaries, informal hedges and wildlife-friendly spaces.

The distinctive leaves and attractive red berries on suitable female plants also make holly a popular feature during the autumn and winter months.

Holly can be grown as an individual feature shrub or planted alongside other suitable hedging varieties to create a natural evergreen boundary.

🪴 Planting and Growing Guide

Position: Suitable for full sun or partial shade. Holly can also tolerate shade.

Soil: Prefers fertile, moist but well-drained soil.

Watering: Water regularly after planting until established, particularly during dry weather.

Pruning: Trim in late summer if required to maintain the desired shape and size.

Hardiness: Fully hardy in most UK garden conditions.

Growth: Naturally dense and bushy, making it suitable for hedging and screening.

🐦 Wildlife Benefits

English Holly is an excellent addition to a wildlife-friendly garden.

• 🐦 Dense evergreen foliage provides shelter for birds.
• 🪺 Mature plants can provide suitable nesting cover.
• 🍒 Red berries on female plants provide food for birds during autumn and winter.
• 🌿 Evergreen foliage provides year-round garden structure.

Please note that holly plants are generally male or female. Female plants need a compatible male plant nearby for berry production.

🏡 Ideal For

• Evergreen garden hedging.
• Natural privacy screening.
• Wildlife-friendly gardens.
• Garden borders and shrub beds.
• Traditional cottage gardens.
• Individual feature planting.
• Mixed native hedging schemes.

📦 What You Will Receive

You will receive healthy Ilex aquifolium English Holly plants, approximately 20–40cm tall, supplied in individual P9 nursery pots.

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Plants are living products, so natural variations in height, shape and foliage may occur depending on the season and growing conditions.

Please note that the sex of young plants may not be identifiable, and berry production is not guaranteed.

📸 Image Disclaimer: Main product image may be AI-generated for illustration. Actual plants supplied may vary in appearance.

🌱 Why Buy From Meredith Nurseries?

At Meredith Nurseries, we offer a wide selection of quality garden plants, evergreen hedging, shrubs and conifers to help you create a beautiful outdoor space.

Whether you are creating a new hedge, adding wildlife-friendly plants or improving your garden borders, browse our online range at Meredith Nurseries.

Ilex Aquifolium ( Holly, or European Holly )
These are pot grown holly hedging plants, all plants supplied in 9cms plant pots.

• GenusIlex can be deciduous or evergreen shrubs and trees with often spiny leaves, small white flowers (male and female usually on separate plants) and, on female plants, showy berries in autumn
• DetailsI. aquifolium is a medium-sized evergreen tree, slow-growing when young, with dark, glossy green, undulate and usually strongly spiny leaves. Small, dull white flowers in spring are followed by bright red berries, on pollinated female plant.

Min order 10 plants