Chestnut-leaved Holly

Ilex castaneifolia, or Chestnut leaf Holly, is a superb, vigorous-growing female Holly that won the Garden Merit Award in 2002.

Bright red berries appear in small clusters and are produced in abundance in the autumn, following a delicate display of flowers in the spring.

Medium pleached trees have a 1.8m clear stem and are trained onto a flat frame which measures approximately 1m high x 1m wide.

Trees trained in this way will require regular maintenance to prune back and tie any loose branches back onto the frames. Pleached panels can be extremely effective for improving privacy in small urban gardens, and like any pleached tree, have the benefit of doing this without reducing the living space in the garden.

Common names

Chestnut-leaved Holly

Height of tree

7-12m

Tree type

Evergreen

Soil type

Well drained

Shape

Pleached

Blossom Colour

White

Information Flags

Award

Looks good in

Winter

Location

Garden

Genus

Ilex