Needlepoint Holly
Ilex cornuta ‘Anicet Delcambre’ · an evergreen screening holly with red berries
A dense, glossy Chinese holly loaded with bright red berries through winter, and one of the best hollies for a screen or tall hedge; it can also be trained into a small tree. It takes heat, humidity, drought and salt spray once established, and deer avoid its spiny tips. Give it soil that drains.
- Mature size
- 17 × 14 ft
- 5.5 × 4 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 7a–9b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Dry to moist
- Blooms
- Apr
Needlepoint Holly at its mature size
A mature Needlepoint Holly grows 15 to 20 feet tall and 10 to 20 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 Oakland Holly, sized as Needlepoint Holly.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension, The Tree Center.
Growing Needlepoint Holly
- Grows well in
- The Southeast and the Plains and Mountain West.
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Good for
- Privacy screen and drought tolerant
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- China and Korea
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Needlepoint Holly, that’s about 14 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 Needlepoint Holly in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other hollies
Needlepoint HollyOakland Holly
Oakleaf Holly
Nellie Stevens HollyAll drawn to the same scale.