{"id":2475,"date":"2011-12-25T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2023-11-27T18:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T23:00:11","slug":"foster-holly-has-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/12\/25\/foster-holly-has-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Foster Holly Has It All"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2476\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_5249.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2476\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2476 \" title=\"IMG_5249\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_5249-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_5249-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_5249-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bountiful Fruit Crop on Foster Holly<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Foster holly (<em>Ilex x attenuata<\/em>) is an old holly favorite\u00a0which has not lost its sizzle. While many new holly cultivars have entered the landscape scene,\u00a0do not\u00a0assume that Foster holly is now pass\u00e9. It is utilized\u00a0in a number of landscape options in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7), including in containers in zones 7 and 8.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Originally, there were five selections of Foster holly introduced by E. E. Foster of Foster Nursery, Bessemer, AL in the 1940\u2019s. Still the most popular today is \u2018Foster #2\u2019, a female clone which produces a bounty of small bright red holly berries. Fruits continue to be effective throughout the winter. \u2018Foster #4\u2019 is its male pollinator mate, but in most locales, male American hollies (<em>Ilex opaca<\/em>) will also pollinate Foster #2.<\/p>\n<p>Holly (<em>Ilex spp<\/em>.) grows in a moderately acidic (pH 5.8 \u2013 6.5), well-drained soil and in full to partial sunlight. Feed with a water-soluble acidic fertilizer such as Miracle \u2013Gro\u2122, Miracid\u2122, or Hollytone\u00ae.<\/p>\n<p>Foster hollies display a strong vertical accent when utilized as specimen or foundation shrubs in front of tall buildings or on the corners of residences. They form a 12\u201320-foot dense evergreen privacy screen and may be sheared as hedges. Tall overgrown Foster hollies may be cutback severely in early spring for a small compact size. Heavy clipping can transform them into almost any topiary shape that you desire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foster holly (Ilex x attenuata) is an old holly favorite\u00a0which has not lost its sizzle. While many new holly cultivars have entered the landscape scene,\u00a0do not\u00a0assume that Foster holly is now pass\u00e9. It is utilized\u00a0in a number of landscape options in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7), including in containers in zones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,657,710,144,800,604,665,841,686,791,601,630,705,646,7,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14417,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/14417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}