Ilex, Chinese Holly, Horned Holly 'Burfordii Nana'

I also purchased mine at Lowes, about 5 years ago. It didn't grow at all for a couple of years, and now is growing. It hasn't produced ...Read Moreberries until this year, when there was one small cluster low on the bush. It is in light shade all day. I would love the berries, but it is pretty without them. I'm hoping that in the next year or two it may start making berries. We purchased 6 other hollies at the same time, also from Lowes, and they have also grown only minimally (except the male form which was larger to start with), but this year put on a nice berry display for the first time. Lesson learned: No more bargain plants from big box stores.

I purchased 2 of these plants from Lowes 3yrs ago. Till this day I have not seen one berry. I then purchased 6, from Lowes, 2 years ago. ...Read MoreNot seen any berries on these. They were full of berries when I purchased them. What is wrong. They are in part sun. Do Buford Hollies need a male plant to make berries. I have heard they do not. Does someone in this cyber world know and can help me?

Yes, it's a pretty, essentially unkillable shrub. It would probably survive a nuclear attack, in fact. But my comment is about the siz...Read Moree of it. My next-door neighbor planted a fence of this plant around his backyard decades ago, and now each plant is around 8 feet high and wide, making an impenetrable mass. And it's only that small because he goes out there with a chainsaw several times a year to massacre them. (Yes, he specified to me that they are the dwarf form, not the regular Burford.) Without all his trimming, each tree would easily be 15 feet tall. The bases are very wide, about the width of a football.

You can see a photo of part of the exact hedge I'm talking about in the background of this photo I took of my Olea europaea 'Arbequina': http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/314588

This is a nice shrub. Just watch the leaves as they are pointed.
It takes a cutting real well and just general watering is fine w...Read Moreith this shrub. It's leaves give a good color and in the winter it puts out alot of showy red berries (non eatable!).