Ilex myrtifolia x opaca 'Sand Pond' 26/2 Restock and native sedges

and native sedges

a quiet contrast to the glossy foliage through fall and winter

The fruit is a small coral pome

and in the open the crown rounds and spreads with age

but with berries the color of amber

Ilex myrtifolia x opaca 'Sand Pond' 26/2 Restock and native sedgesIlex 'Sand Pond' is a Woodlanders introduction with a good story and better berries, a natural hybrid between two southeastern native hollies: the stately American holly, Ilex opaca, and the fine textured myrtle leaf holly, Ilex myrtifolia. The cross carries small, narrow, glossy evergreen leaves midway between the parents, on a plant that colors up each fall with an unusually heavy set of large red berries. The plant came out of the wild. We found