ilex shrub
If you're searching for a versatile, attractive plant to enhance your garden, the ilex shrub is an excellent choice for New Zealand landscapes. Known for its dependable evergreen foliage, the ilex shrub offers year-round interest, structure, and colour to borders, hedges, and containers. With its elegant leaf shape and neat growth habit, ilex is a favourite among gardeners looking to create formal or informal planting schemes. Explore the wide range of ilex varieties available, each suited to unique garden applications—whether you’re after clipped topiary, a privacy hedge, or a low-maintenance specimen shrub.
Ilex aquifolium Angustifolia
This male form of Ilex aquifolium Angustifolia, commonly known as the Narrow Leaf English Holly, is grown for its narrow and spiny, glossy, dark green leaves. It grows with a dense, multi-stemmed, and spreading habit to about 2 m tall and 1.5 m wide. The relatively fine texture of Ilex aquifolium Angustifolia sets it apart from other landscape plants and makes it ideal for including in a mixed planting, using for hedging, screening, or maintaining in a container.
From $141.61
Ilex crenata Convexa (Japanese Holly)
Ilex crenata ‘Convexa’ is a compact, evergreen shrub with dense, glossy green foliage and a naturally rounded form. The small, convex leaves give it a fine texture, making it an excellent choice for low hedging, topiary, and formal borders. It grows to around 1 m tall and 1.2 m wide with a slow to moderate growth rate. This hardy plant thrives in full sun or partial shade, prefers well-drained, slightly acidic soil, and is easy to maintain in NZ gardens.
From $26.93
