{"id":7010,"date":"2014-12-16T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=7010"},"modified":"2014-12-15T12:20:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T17:20:31","slug":"nellie-r-stevens-holly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2014\/12\/16\/nellie-r-stevens-holly\/","title":{"rendered":"Nellie R. Stevens Holly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7125\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0219.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7125\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7125\" alt=\"UT Rose Garden in Knoxville, TN  with 'Nellie R. Stevens' holly in background\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0219-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0219-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0219-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UT Rose Garden in Knoxville, TN with &#8216;Nellie R. Stevens&#8217; holly in background<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hollies and the winter season\u00a0work well together. Female hollies with\u00a0bright red fruits\u00a0(yellow-fruited forms also) contrast with their glossy\u00a0evergreen foliage. &#8216;Nellie R. Stevens&#8217; holly (NRS), a female form, is\u00a0a cross between\u00a0English (<i>Ilex aquifolium<\/i>) and Chinese (<i>I. cornuta<\/i>) hollies. NRS is the popular holly choice in Southern landscapes (USDA hardiness zones 6\u00a0to 9).<\/p>\n<p>Hollies are dioecious, requiring both a male and female parent for fruit formation. NRS holly exhibits the trait of bearing small numbers of seedless parthenocarpic fruit, without a male pollinator being present. More fruits are produced\u00a0when NRS is properly mated with male holly cultivar &#8216;Edward J. Stevens.&#8217; One male holly\u00a0adequately pollinates 8-10 female plants located within 200-300 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Hollies should be spaced apart according to their mature size and\u00a0purpose in a planting. A single NRS makes an outstanding stand alone specimen\u00a0shrub or tree;\u00a0or\u00a0mass several together to form a tall privacy screen.\u00a0Plant\u00a0them on 12 foot centers (between plants). NRS is a strong grower at 20-30 feet\u00a0height and 15-18 feet width over 30 years.\u00a0 NRS is long-lived and\u00a0asks for\u00a0very little maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Hollies prefer a mostly sunny location and moderately acidic, well-drained soil. Established hollies are good foragers for nutrients, and do benefit from regular feedings\u00a0with\u00a0acidic-based fertilizers such as Hollytone\u00ae, Miracid\u00ae, or Miracle Gro\u00ae according to package directions.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ed Gilman, at the University of Florida in\u00a0Gainesville,\u00a0writes that NRS has been successfully planted in urban areas\u00a0on soils that are droughty and poorly drained, and on\u00a0sites with poor air quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Hollies and the winter season\u00a0work well together. Female hollies with\u00a0bright red fruits\u00a0(yellow-fruited forms also) contrast with their glossy\u00a0evergreen foliage. &#8216;Nellie R. Stevens&#8217; holly (NRS), a female form, is\u00a0a cross between\u00a0English (Ilex aquifolium) and Chinese (I. cornuta) hollies. NRS is the popular holly choice in Southern landscapes (USDA hardiness zones 6\u00a0to 9). Hollies are dioecious, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,747,674,806,800,649,686,853,551,202,843,1060,601,777,630,646,7,231,655,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010"}],"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=7010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7127,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010\/revisions\/7127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}