Description
The Eagleston Holly is a natural hybrid of the Dahoon Holly and American Holly. The Eagleston Holly is a beautiful evergreen holly that is grown as a large shrub or small tree with a pyramidal growth habit. The Eagleston Holly can be used for a variety of landscape settings as either a tall screen or a solitary specimen when grown with a single trunk in tree form. The Eagleston Holly has a dense canopy with small slender branches which are smooth and light to medium gray in color. The Eagleston Holly can adapt to both sandy and clay soils with a moderate growth rate. The Eagleston Holly has shiny medium-green leaves with multiple soft spines that are accented in the fall with clusters of bright red berries which persist throughout the fall and winter. The berries on an Eagleston Holly are very attractive to wildlife, serving as an excellent food source. The roots of an Eagleston Holly are rarely invasive due to their great number and relatively small diameter.
