Weeping Yaupon Holly (Ilex Vomitoria ‘Pendula’) – 7 Gallon Pot (4-5′)

An exceptionally attractive North American native, the Weeping Yaupon Holly is a beautiful tall shrub or small tree prized for its distinctive weeping habit and bright red berries in fall and winter. Weeping Yaupon has many uses in landscape design and grows well in moist or dry soils. It responds very well to pruning and shearing so is perfect for creating unique shapes and forms, such as the umbrella and columnar forms seen in the photos above.

Growing 10 to 30 feet tall and 6 to 12 feet wide depending on pruning, the Weeping Yaupon Holly can be grown as a tall shrub or tree. As a tall shrub it is ideal for use as a specimen, in groupings, to frame the corners of tall homes, as espalier (grown against a wall), or in privacy screen plantings. As this yaupon holly grows taller lower branches can be removed to form a very attractive evergreen tree. Responds very well to pruning to create various interesting topiary such as umbrella, pyramid or columnar forms. A fine addition to holly gardens, bird gardens, zen gardens, berry gardens and cottage gardens.

Note:  For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 7a, where this Yaupon Holly variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

A sturdy North American native, Weeping Yaupon Holly is adaptable to a wide range of cultural conditions, from well-drained to wet and acid to alkaline soils and full sun to part shade. It is very tolerant of drought and sea salt, and is one of the most durable and adaptable of the small leaved evergreen Hollies for use in southern landscapes. Light pruning may be necessary to maintain shape, but unlike the species it requires less maintenance because it does not sprout from the roots.