*RETAIL - Quercus ilex Size:15g/$325 Eventually achieves a 4 ft

Eventually achieves a 4 ft trunk and a perfect rosette of 4 ft long

nizadensis with darkly spotted Manfreda produced this under one foot rosette with purple spotted leaves backed by olive green with a muted gold stripe down the center of each leaf

We prune old seed heads once a year to tidy

plenty of fertilizer in summer

nearly black flowers provide deliciously fragrant inspiration in spring and the shiny

*RETAIL - Quercus ilex Size:15g/$325 Eventually achieves a 4 ftNative to the Mediterranean, frequently grown as far north as the British Isles and occasionally in the western US. This olive green, silver tinted, medium to large tree, to 25 40 ft (more in a few hundred years) is most exquisitely adapted to dry summer climates and is a wonderful constituent of that Mediterranean look, just throw in an Italian cypress and some olives. Requires only well drained soil and temperatures not falling below 0 to 10F, USDA