Oakland Holly
Ilex ‘Magland’ · an evergreen screening holly with red berries
A dense, compact holly that grows into a neat pyramid of glossy, oak-shaped, spiny leaves, with red-orange berries for songbirds through winter. Its flowers fertilize themselves, so it berries without a separate male. Use it as a screen, hedge or foundation shrub, sheltered from cold winter wind.
- Mature size
- 17 × 13 ft
- 5.5 × 4 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 6a–9b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to wet
- Blooms
- Apr–May
Oakland Holly at its mature size
A mature Oakland Holly grows 15 to 20 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: plantdevelopment.com.
Through the year
What Oakland Holly looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Fruit · Oct–Feb
Small bright red berries scattered through the foliage.
In leaf · Mar–Sep
Glossy dark green lobed leaves.
Growing Oakland Holly
- Grows well in
- The Northeast and the Southeast.
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Good for
- Privacy screen, hedge, rain garden, and winter interest
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- China
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For 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 Oakland Holly in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other hollies
Oakland HollyNeedlepoint Holly
Oakleaf Holly
Nellie Stevens HollyAll drawn to the same scale.