Dwarf Yaupon Holly #7

One of the designers top pics for home foundation plantings, Bordeaux is unique among dwarf yaupon hollies in that it produces colorful deep burgundy new growth throughout the warm season on dense mounds. This new growth matures to attractive, oval-shape, boxwood-like, grey-green leaves that have have no points. It is an exceptionally tough evergreen shrub, being both drought and heat tolerant, and also tolerating more moisture in the soil than other hollies.

Plant Type: Evergreen Shrub
Height at Maturity: 2-4' depending on pruning
Width at Maturity: 3-5' depending on pruning
Spacing Recommendations: 3' for solid hedges; 7' or more for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form: Dense, Mounding, Rounded
Growth Rate: Moderate

Flower Color: White
Flower Size: Tiny, inconspicuous
Flowering Period: Spring
Flower Type: Single
Fragrant Flowers: No
Foliage Color: Medium Green, Gray, Burgundy
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries: No
Berry Color: N/A

Sun Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade, All Day Filtered Sun, Morning Shade with Evening Sun
Water Needs: Average, Low when established
Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sandy, Silty
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist to Somewhat Dry
Soil pH: 5.5 - 7.5

Maintenance / Care: Low to Average
Attracts: Visual Attention
Resistances: Deer, Disease, Drought, Mildew, Heat, Insect, Clay Soil, Moist Soil