Golden Oakland Holly
Ilex ‘Magden’ · a gold-variegated evergreen holly
- Mature size
- 15 × 13 ft
- 4.5 × 4 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 6a–9b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
- Blooms
- Apr–May
Golden Oakland Holly at its mature size
A mature Golden Oakland Holly grows 15 feet tall and 12 to 15 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.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: covingtonnursery.com.
Through the year
What Golden Oakland Holly looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Year-round
Glossy leaves with bright gold margins.
Growing Golden Oakland Holly
- Grows well in
- The Northeast and the Southeast.
- Good for
- Privacy screen, hedge, specimen, rain garden, deer resistant, and winter interest
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- China
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Golden Oakland Holly, that’s about 13 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 Golden Oakland Holly in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other hollies
Dragon Lady HollyGolden Oakland Holly
PossumhawAll drawn to the same scale.