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Ilex Blue Maid mini standard

Bright Red Autumn Berries, Beautiful Spring Blooms, And Evergreen Glossy Blue-Green Foliage Through It All!
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Key Features

  • A compact standard holly with dense evergreen foliage and vibrant red berries... Bring colour and style to your garden or patio throughout the year
  • Expertly trained into a mini standard. An elegant feature tree, perfect for pots, framing entrances or adding a formal touch to a border
  • This female holly variety produces bright red berries in autumn, following tiny white spring flowers when pollinated by a nearby male holly
  • Fully winter hardy and resilient, with glossy leaves that hold through winter even in the coldest UK climates, requiring only minimal pruning each year to keep it in shape
  • Standard trees are supplied with a shaped, rounded head of foliage above a branchless stem
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Description

Timeless elegance and all-season interest! Ilex 'Blue Maid' Mini Standard Holly Trees boast distinctive blue-green foliage, a dense rounded head and vibrant red berries in autumn.

This charming evergreen brings instant structure to patios, doorways or garden borders. Unlike traditional hollies that can grow large and unruly, this mini standard has been expertly trained to form a neat, well-shaped head on a sturdy stem.

It's a beautiful choice for containers, and the tidy shape is ideal for framing entrances or adding symmetry to patios and terraces.

'Blue Maid' is a female holly variety with white spring flowers followed by bright red berries in autumn, provided a male pollinator is planted nearby. Plus, its leaves are slightly softer than traditional spiny hollies, for the same glossy look without the sharp edges.

Fully hardy and resilient, this variety shrugs off the cold, even in conditions down to -27C. The dense evergreen canopy provides colour and texture all year long, while its compact growth means minimal pruning is needed to maintain shape.

Top Tips
Hollies need almost no maintenance if you keep them well-watered for the first couple of years to enable them to establish.
Care Information
  • They are more or less trouble-free, with moderately fast growth.
  • The more light that your holly receives, the more leaves it will produce, so plant it where it will get maximum light.
  • To produce berries, it is worth investing in a separate, Male holly tree.
Delivery Information

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. Pre-ordered items will be sent as soon as possible after the date quoted and we'll generally ship your entire order with your pre-ordered items. When your order is dispatched, we'll send you another email with details of how to track it.

Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.

We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.

Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.

Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

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