Blue Prince Holly
Ilex x meserveae ‘Conablu’ · a male blue holly
The go-to male blue holly, with dense, glossy, spiny blue-green leaves on purple stems, grown as the pollinator that sets berries on Blue Princess and other blue hollies nearby. A tough foundation shrub or barrier that takes pruning well. Give it acid, well-drained soil and shelter from winter wind.
- Mature size
- 10 × 8 ft
- 3 × 2.4 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 5a–7b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to moist
- Blooms
- Apr–May
Blue Prince Holly at its mature size
A mature Blue Prince Holly grows 8 to 12 feet tall and 6 to 12 feet wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Drawn as Blue Princess Holly, sized as Blue Prince Holly.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension, Purdue Arboretum, Cornell Woody Plants, UConn Plant Database, rhs.org.uk, Monrovia.
Growing Blue Prince Holly
- Grows well in
- The Northeast and the Midwest.
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Good for
- Privacy screen, hedge, and foundation planting
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Europe and Japan
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Blue Prince Holly, that’s about 8 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Blue Prince Holly in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other hollies
Winterberry Holly
Meserve HollyBlue Prince HollyBlue Princess HollyAll drawn to the same scale.