| I recently bought a blue maid holly to plant near my house. The information on the pot said it grows 5 feet tall and 3 feet wide. I planted it two feet from my house, which has a concrete foundation. I heard that planting evergreen shrubs and other kinds of acid-loving plants near a concrete foundation would turn their leaves yellow and kill them. Is this true should I replant it? Is there anything I could do? Also, does the Blue Maid holly need to be pollinated? If so by which plant? |
Blue Maid is one of the Meserve group of hollies which all have the word Blue in their names. Blue Stallion or Blue Prince, for example, would serve as a pollinator. The supplier for your holly should also stock appropriate pollinators, or there may already be a nearby pollinator in say a neighbor's yard. Incidentally, according to Michael Dirr's "Manual of Woody Landscape Plants" the mature Blue Maid holly takes on an approximately pyramidal form of between 8 to 10 (possibly 15 feet) tall and about 6 to 8 feet wide, so I suspect the label was giving you the anticipated landscape size in about five years. |
