Ilex vomitoria (male) ‘Will Fleming’ prophouse-on-the-horizon a shaded mixed planting

a shaded mixed planting

some of the finest fall color of any native tree

Where much of the landscape fades to gray

and pitcher plants

but Aucuba japonica 'Rozannie' needs no such arrangement

Ilex vomitoria (male) ‘Will Fleming’ prophouse-on-the-horizon a shaded mixed plantingYaupon is the small leaved evergreen holly of the Southeast, native along the coastal plain from Virginia to Texas and a member of the holly family, Aquifoliaceae. The wild plant is a broad, twiggy shrub, so a yaupon that grows straight up like a green column is a genuine oddity. 'Will Fleming' is exactly that: a male selection with a strict fastigiate habit, reaching twelve to fifteen feet tall on a base only two or three feet wide, a living