Chionanthus retusus Fruit Ilex crenata is ideal for

Ilex crenata is ideal for creating a neat and tidy border in your garden

Thrives in all well-drained soils

or 'Holstein' or 'Granny Smith' (flower slightly earlier but usually overlap in season)

fruit and fall colour are fire-cracking red or tinged with red making this cultivar one of the best maples when looking for colour effect

Superb as a multi-stem in a naturalistic setting

Chionanthus retusus Fruit Ilex crenata is ideal forA rare and most attractive species with a broad, wide spreading habit and lustrous, bright green leaves which are downy white beneath. Clusterns of fragrant white flowers with fringe like petals bloom in May June followed by blueish black berries enjoyed by birds. Good yellow autumn colour and lovely peeling bark. H6