English Holly 'Yule Glow'

English holly is not reliably hardy here in zone 6B, SE suburbs of Pittsburgh.

English holly is a nuisance plant. When I first came to Oregon in 1973 I thought the holly was a wonderful plant especially at Christmas....Read More Soon I was pulling up seedlings all over my property. Hordes of waxwings and robins eat the berries and the little plants come up everywhere. They have a taproot and are hard to pull out after one season.Even if you keep only the male plants you are contributing to the problem.

This plant requires winter protection even in Zone 6b and may be killed to the ground in colder-than-average winters. It is reliably har...Read Moredy throughout Zone 7, however.

This kind of Holly is killed at temperatures below -30 C