Can holly bushes be planted in large pots?
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Do I have to put a male and female in the same pot. I want to redo my front porch steps and change the way they face, and for my landscaping I want to use holly bushes!
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Mar 18, 2013 - The key factor is keeping potted plants watered. A potted holly tree probably will need a good soaking every day, especially when it's hot and .
If you want berries, the male and female trees need to be near each other but not in the same pot.
You do not have to put them in the same pot BUT you must place them near each other.....to help with pollination place them were the bees and butterflies can get to them .
With most holly species you do need both a male and female planted close together, but close together only means in the same yard. There are cultivars that produce berries without a pollinator—Ilex opaca 'Croonenburg' or 'Canary' with yellow berries, and I. aquifolium x I. cornuta 'Nellie R Stevens'. Unfortunately these cultivars grow very large. The Chinese Holly, I. cornuta, is said to retain its berries even when not pollinated, and the cultivar 'Carissa' gets about 4' tall x 5' wide.
The only truly dwarf hollies I could find are Dwarf Yaupon Holly (I. vomitoria 'nana') which gets only 2' tall x 5' wide and a variety of Japanese Holly (I. crenata 'Helleri') which varies from 2' to 4' tall and from 3' to 5' wide.
Even in the links given by Cheryl A, hollies should, after several years, be planted in the ground. And I wonder if the reference to a 6-inch holly was a typo, because I can find nothing when I search for "6-inch holly" or "ground cover holly" or "dwarf holly.
make sure to choose large pots with drainage holes.Have one on each side if possible for them to pollinate. https://www.doityourself.com/stry/how-to-grow-a-holly-tree-in-a-container