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into the season with pollen sources Above :Ilex × koehneana ‘Hohman’
fertilizing mid-season blooming Photo: John Ruter, University of Georgia,
Bugwood.org
winterberry.
Right: Ilex × koehneana ‘Lassie’, ‘Hohman’,
Jim Dandy is great, but it is a slow- and ‘WLW’ Photo: John Ruter, University
growing, early-flowering dwarf of Georgia, Bugwood. org
male clone. This cultivar is useful Bottom: Ilex verticillata ‘Winter Red’
as a pollinator for early- flowering Photo: Ginny Rosenkranz, UME
female clones such as ‘Afterglow’,
‘Aurantiaca’, and ‘Red Sprite’. It grows
to about 5’ tall.
For late flowering female winterberries,
he suggested using ‘Southern
Gentleman’. This plant is a late-
blooming male pollinator for ‘Winter
Red’, ‘Winter Gold’, ‘Cacapon’,
‘Shaver’, ‘Sparkleberry’ and other
later blooming female clones. If you
are not getting the fruit set you desire,
then look into adding another male
cultivars into your planting. A

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