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Apollo Winterberry Male Holly - 3 Gallon Pot Because his season of bloom overlaps the Ilex verticillata and Ilex serrata cultivars, Apollo is the stud of choice for many female winterberry hollies, such as Winter Red.
- Buy Male & Female Winterberry Holly
As with blueberry bushes, in order to produce a bumper crop...
- Buy Male & Female Winterberry Holly
An extremely hardy male holly with rich, deep green foliage on a dense, twiggy, oval to rounded form. An excellent pollenizer for berry production on early-flowering female varieties such as Red Sprite. A superb choice for the shrub border, particularly in cooler northern regions. Deciduous.
You must plant both male and female winterberry plants to get the best berry set on your winterberry hollies. Male plants will never develop berries, so they aren't very showy in the winter. Typically one male Winterberry will pollinate between 5 to 8 female winterberries.
Jim Dandy is a male holly shrub with an upright and dense growth habit with dark green foliage throughout the season. This oval-shaped shrub requires moist to wet, highly acidic soils, good for problem areas, and excellent when massed.
The Jim Dandy Winterberry Holly is a robust and versatile deciduous shrub, perfect for adding a splash of greenery to your landscape. This male variety is essential for pollinating female winterberries. Mature Height: 6-10’ tall.
The male and females can be planted anywhere within about 50’/15.25m of one another, so you can use your prime real estate for the showy female(s) and tuck the male plant in an out-of-the-way spot in your landscape.
As with blueberry bushes, in order to produce a bumper crop of berries you must have a male plant to pollinate a female. We selected our two long-time favorites among the winterberry hollies for this combo: Winter Red, a female, and Apollo, a male.
