Ilex integra SEO Ilex verticillata 'Jim Dandy' is

Ilex verticillata 'Jim Dandy' is a small shrub with an outsized job

Photos courtesy of Jim Robbins

and seeds itself freely enough to colonize old fields

'Brilliantissima' changed that

the sweetspire earns its garden place several times over

Ilex integra SEO Ilex verticillata 'Jim Dandy' isIlex integra is the holly for people who do not think they like hollies, an evergreen tree from Japan whose leaves carry no spines at all. The dark green foliage is smooth edged, glossy, and thick, giving a clean, almost magnolia like calm, and on female trees the show comes in fall and winter, when bright red berries gather along the branches against the deep green. The botanical name marks the difference: integra means entire or undivided, for those