Post by nightmist on Jun 5, 2016 11:10:58 GMT -5
Some years ago I planted a pair of Hollies in the back yard, Blue Boy and Blue Girl. I bought tiny ones because holly is darned expensive!
The Girl took right off, the Boy was a bit slower.
Then the landlord's guy committed the great lawn mower massacre, and the Girl was a victim. She was coming up on two feet tall, and had actually had a little cluster of berries the season before too.
Daughter3 and I were discussing the lonely boy holly and considering getting him a girlfriend.
Holly is still fearfully expensive. She was thinking of taking cuttings from the holly at her boyfriends house and trying those. However they are one of the greater hollies and I do not know if a blue holly will pollinate them, though holly is pretty promiscuous. Plus, though he only lives 20 minutes south of here it is a different ag zone (6), and it shows in what will grow well there and just huddles up and dies in the winter here. That is why I chose blue hollies in the first place, they can handle a colder climate.
Blue Girl is really really hard to find anymore, though you still find Blue Boy being sold as a pollinator fairly often.
Does anybody know a reliable place to order female blue holly from, that does not try to make you buy a male at the same time, and is not stupidly expensive? I will settle for weeny ones, I have patience.
I am considering the greater holly from the boyfriend's house. Though I am _very_ dubious about them surviving here. I am quite certain they are not blues. They have been there as long as anyone can remember and his family lives in the historic district. Plus they are huge. Blues grow to 8-10 feet tops, these are capital T Trees and darn near as tall as some of the nearby hardwoods.
The Girl took right off, the Boy was a bit slower.
Then the landlord's guy committed the great lawn mower massacre, and the Girl was a victim. She was coming up on two feet tall, and had actually had a little cluster of berries the season before too.
Daughter3 and I were discussing the lonely boy holly and considering getting him a girlfriend.
Holly is still fearfully expensive. She was thinking of taking cuttings from the holly at her boyfriends house and trying those. However they are one of the greater hollies and I do not know if a blue holly will pollinate them, though holly is pretty promiscuous. Plus, though he only lives 20 minutes south of here it is a different ag zone (6), and it shows in what will grow well there and just huddles up and dies in the winter here. That is why I chose blue hollies in the first place, they can handle a colder climate.
Blue Girl is really really hard to find anymore, though you still find Blue Boy being sold as a pollinator fairly often.
Does anybody know a reliable place to order female blue holly from, that does not try to make you buy a male at the same time, and is not stupidly expensive? I will settle for weeny ones, I have patience.
I am considering the greater holly from the boyfriend's house. Though I am _very_ dubious about them surviving here. I am quite certain they are not blues. They have been there as long as anyone can remember and his family lives in the historic district. Plus they are huge. Blues grow to 8-10 feet tops, these are capital T Trees and darn near as tall as some of the nearby hardwoods.