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Silver Holly - Ilex Argentea Marginata
Variegated Silver Holly Bushes, Ilex aquifolium Argentea Marginata, is a large evergreen shrub or a medium tree that excels when planted as a hedge.
A variegated Holly hedge has prickly, glossy green shield-like leaves with distinctive pale yellow to white margins that create a wonderfully vivid foliage display.
You can also buy Green holly bushes and Ripley Gold holly.
As with normal Holly, the females carry bright red berries in late autumn and winter that, although inedible for humans, are both attractive to look at and a vital winter food source for birds and animals.
Being prickly and evergreen, Holly is an ideal hedging plant for security purposes. It is also extremely tough and will grow well in coastal areas and industial zones.
Holly is also one of the hedging plants, along with Laurel and Yew that will cope with deep shade, even where the soil is poor and tends to dryness.
Their only requirement is a reasonably well drained soil.
A large Holly hedge is a magnificent wildlife habitat providing a home to a wide variety of birds particularly as the sheltered centre of a holly hedge is a desireable hideout for all sorts of creatures.
Because it flowers late, it is also attractive to autumn butterflies and moths when most other plants have given up flowering for the year.
Holly berries ripen slowly through the action of the winter frosts, softening each time they freeze and thaw.
This gradually releases food for wildlife throughout the winter.
Young Holly is a target for rabbits and they like to chew straight through the stem so younger plants will need protection with spirals or tree guards for the first couple of years.
In ancient times, the evergreen plants Holly and Ivy symbolised the spirit of men and women respectively as they struggled to survive the winter.
The Holly wreath at Christmas dates back to a pagan custom of making a nest to shelter benign forest spirits during the winter in exchange for their aid with fertility.
A white holly staff or spear was said to give men endurance and resistance to sickness; it was probably quite handy in a fight as well!
Berries: Please note that berries are only carried on female plants.
- Your Holly plants are seed grown for strength, not taken from cuttings. They usually will not have flowered and revealed their gender by the time they are delivered.
- We can't make any promises, but if you order a batch of holly, the chances are that about half of them should be female.
Ilex aquifolium Argentea Marginata are large bushes and should be planted at two to the metre.
Silver Holly can grow to 8-10m in any soil type that does not become waterlogged.
Like Yew, it is on the RHS list of plants that are resistant to honey fungus.
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Delivery: The basic delivery charge for orders of bareroot plants is £9.49 + vat, which increases to £12.55 + vat if you add any pot-grown plants, standard trees or fruit trees to the order.
Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
You can choose the delivery week that suits you during checkout and we will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.
Payment: We do not charge your card until we begin to prepare your order for packing.
Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.
Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted hedging must be watered in dry weather while it is establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week if there is no heavy rain.
Our nursery has been supplying container grown and bareroot hedging plants to gardeners, farmers and town planners since 1949. Our website started in 2003, so we do understand the concerns that you may have about buying hedging plants online. If any of your plants are damaged when they arrive or if you are otherwise not satisfied with your order after you inspect it, please repackage it and contact us. We will give you a refund or send replacements and send a courier to come and collect the unwanted plants.
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If any plants die within a year, we replace them if you have followed our instructions. You only pay for
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Bare-root Plants are only delivered in the winter season, from November to March. Pot grown plants can be delivered all year round
Advantages of Bare-root plants:
You pay less for the same size plants.
You can carry and plan them easily.
You only plant them in winter, so they need less maintenance after
planting. The rain will water them for their first few months.
You get the biggest selection: Many trees are not sold pot-grown.
They are "asleep" in winter - this is the best time to transplant any tree.
They use fewer fertilisers & fungicides, less water and fuel in their production & delivery.
Advantages of Pot Grown plants:
Pot grown plants can be delivered & planted all year round.
Plants with tender roots & larger specimens must be delivered in pots.
Plants in pots can be kept for months longer if there is a delay in planting.
Our Advice to You:
If you can't wait to get planting, order Pot grown plants now.
If you are not in a hurry, order bare-root plants for delivery this winter. Simply add them to your basket and choose a winter delivery date that suits you during checkout.
This will reserve your plants before they sell out.
We won't charge you until the day before delivery, so cancelling your order is always easy.
If you are only ordering chemicals and other small items, delivery is £3.50
Our delivery charge for most bareroot plants is £9.49 + VAT.
If your order contains any standard sized trees, fruit trees or pot-grown plants, then the delivery charge is £12.55 + VAT in TOTAL.
If you live in the Scottish Highlands or the Isle of Wight, there will be an extra charge of £15 + VAT on top of the appropriate basic charge, as listed above.
If your order is over £250 exc. VAT, there will be no delivery charge.
If you are uncertain, just add items to your basket which will calculate the basic shipping charge for you.
