Ilex cassine (female) Check with George The selection was made by

The selection was made by the late Fred Galle of Callaway Gardens

after centuries in cultivation the species has produced no garden cultivars worth keeping

inkberry settles in

so that a single mature plant reads as a green fountain rather than a shrub

an informal border

Ilex cassine (female) Check with George The selection was made byIlex cassine, the dahoon holly, is an elegant evergreen native of the southern wetlands, and this is a fruiting female, the sex that carries the crop of small, glossy red berries. Unlike the fiercely spined American holly, dahoon holds narrow, smooth edged, bright green leaves that are a pleasure to plant near a path, and in fall and winter the branches string themselves with scarlet fruit against that clean green. Grown as a large shrub or a small