Holly Tree Patio Standard – Ilex aquifolium Myrtifolia at Gardening Express

It’s Spring time! You can find Holly Tree Patio Standard – Ilex aquifolium Myrtifolia on our partner’s website Gardening Express to embellish your garden. You will find it in the category Formal of Garden Orchid and you will be redirected to Gardening Express if you add it to your cart.

Holly Tree Patio Standard – Ilex aquifolium Myrtifolia on category Formal

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This beautiful standard holly tree has lovely dark green foliage and will make a classy addition to any patio. Perhaps use flanking a front door to make a swish looking entrance to your home. Supplied with an approx 50cm tall clear stem topped off with an approx 30-40cm diametre lollipop head. Overall height including pot is around 80-90cms. This distinguished evergreen really is a sight to behold. These trees make a great decoration in the festive season in a porchway for example as one enters the home. All year round they provide a high-class property enhancing look and can be used in place of where the popular bay tree is often paraded. Ilex myrtifolia more commonly known as the Prickly Pineapple Holly is a compact growing type with dusky purple young shoots and small narrow dark green leaves edged in fine relatively soft spines. Dense and slow growing mytifolia holly is a quite rare male variety of common holly and will therefore be a perfect pollinating partner to the types that carry berries in your garden. It can be celebrated as a near topiary with its deep green narrow super glossy leaves or tucked in a corner to carry out it’s functional duties with your lady hollies and ensure plenty of berries each year. 

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We firmly believe that Gardening is for Everyone! That’s right, you do not even need a garden to get growing. Many of our plants can be grown on balconies, small patios and decking, so you can catch the growing bug, and grow your own freshest fruit and vegetables too.We speak in plain English. Sometimes gardening can be a confusing maze of latin names and strange words and can be confusing or off-putting – we simplify all and remove all the jargon, and give you down to earth advice on what to grow – and how!We will show you how to get success from our products through our videos and care instructions. We have only chosen plants that are easy to grow and will give successful results with a minimum of experience. From the thousands of plants available, we have picked those that really work and perform. We have done the sifting and choosing for you, to bring you the best.We all have gardens of our own, and have grown many of the plants we sell, and can provide simple, easy to do, hints and tips for success. So confident are we our plants will perform, we back it up with our unique Lifetime Guarantee on all hardy plants.

So, even if you do not have a garden, or have never gardened before – we can help you get started on the road to delicious fresh fruit and veg, and gorgeous flower displays.