Key features

• •EVERGREEN: Soft Touch Holly is dense, yet soft shrub with glossy green foliage and a round growth habit. Along with the very similar boxwood shrubs they are often used to maintain green areas in home gardens and landscapes throughout the world. Soft Touch Holly is fast growing shrub and reaches 2-3' H x 2-3' W once mature.
• •ATTRACTS BIRDS: Soft Touch Holly is fast growing shrub and reaches 2-3' H x 2-3' W once mature! In the spring, very small white flowers will bloom and once the cooler weather arrives it will bear glossy blackberry-like fruits. Birds and butterflies are attracted to both the berries the dense foliage of this dwarf holly shrub.
• •PRUNING: Soft Touch Hollies tolerate pruning well if you want to keep them a certain size or shape. Heavy pruning is best reserved for late winter or early spring. You can certainly let your Soft Touch Holly grow naturally with no pruning as well.
• •USDA ZONES: Soft Touch Holly is hardy in USDA Zones 5-9. For a healthy holly you are going to want to place where it can receive full sunlight, but it will also do well in a location where it receives partial shade at certain times of the day. For the first few months be sure to water several times a week and once it takes root you can begin to water less.
• •POTTED PLANT: Holly shrubs ship as a 2.5 quart potted plant with soil from the Alabama Gulf Coast. Not guaranteed to be in bloom on arrival. This plant is unavailable to ship to Hawaii and Alaska.