Holly
Ilex aquifolium
In Dutch: Hulst
TreesCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- Up to 10 m, usually less
- Spread
- 4 to 8 m
- Full grown after
- 20 to 50 years
- Sun
- Full sun to full shade
- Soil
- Humus-rich sand or loam, not wet
- Water
- Average
- Maintenance
- Low
- Flowers
- May and June, white
- For bees
- Yes: plenty of nectar and pollen, May and June
- Hay fever
- Not or weakly allergenic
- Leaves
- Stay green
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- Yes: berries and leaves
- Pricks or stings
- Yes: spiny leaves
- Price, young
- About €10 to €14 each, 60-80 cm, in a pot or with a root ball
- Price, grown
- About €58 to €75 each, 150-200 cm, with a root ball
Through the year
- Leaf
- all year
- Flower
- May to June
- Fruit
- September to February