Holly Japanese Caroline Upright Hedging

Ilex crenata Caroline Upright (Japanese Holly)

A neat and tidy Japanese Holly with small deep green evergreen foliage that clips very well making this a natural choice for decorative hedges and topiary. As the name suggests the plant has an upright habit of growth. Good for sull sun or shadier areas and they do well by the sea. Any well drained soil, the plants are very drought resistant once well established. Growth of approx 20cm per year. Trim once a year to maintain shape, twice for a very sharp show garden look.

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Rootball Hedging

Beautiful bushy plants grown in our fields for several years, they are lifted in season (October-Early May) with the immediate root ball which is wrapped in hessian for protection. Strong plants giving instant impact at moderate cost.

Instant Hedging

Convenient pre-clipped hedging plants grown in sections to provide immediate impact from the moment of planting. Those grown in troughs are available for delivery and planting all year, rootball products are available from October-April.

Holly Japanese Caroline Upright Rootball Hedging 1.5-2ft 40/60cm

  • Bushy

  • Plant(s) per metre: 3
  • Minimum order quantity: 1

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£21.59 £21.35 £20.87 £20.39
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Holly Japanese Caroline Upright Rootball Hedging 2-3ft 60/80cm

  • Bushy

  • Plant(s) per metre: 2-3
  • Minimum order quantity: 1

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£26.39 £25.19 £23.99 £22.55
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Holly Japanese Caroline Upright Rootball Hedging 2.5-3.5ft 80/100cm

  • Bushy

  • Plant(s) per metre: 2-3
  • Minimum order quantity: 1

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£32.39 £31.19 £29.99 £27.59
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Holly Japanese Caroline Upright Rootball Hedging 3.5-4ft 100/125cm

  • Bushy

  • Plant(s) per metre: 2
  • Minimum order quantity: 1

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£38.39 £37.19 £35.99 £32.39
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Holly Japanese Caroline Upright Rootball Hedging 4-5ft 125/150cm

  • Bushy

  • Plant(s) per metre: 2
  • Minimum order quantity: 1

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£47.99 £44.39 £43.19 £41.39
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Holly Japanese Caroline Upright Instant Hedging 12/16in 30/40cm

  • 1yr S 10L T

  • Plant(s) per metre: 2
  • Minimum order quantity: 6

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£78.00 £75.60 £73.20 £71.99

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Ilex Crenata Caroline Upright is native to East Asia is commonly known as Holly Japanese Caroline Upright or Box Leaved Holly. It does not have the typical prickly leaf that we expect from a holly plant and is a true alternative to Box hedging, avoiding the risk of suffering from box blight. It is a smaller type of Holly hedge, with glossy dark green small leaves and a distinctive upright and bushy habit of growth making it perfect to use for a neat dense dwarf hedge but is versatile enough that it can be grown into a hedge up to 1.5m.

Holly Japanese is a slow growing evergreen that produces small delicate white flowers in late May to June followed by small black fruits in autumn but like all hollies this fruit will only be produced by the females. The compact nature of this hardy evergreen means it is perfect for topiary therefore being a popular plant with Bonsai enthusiasts. It can be trained and pruned into many shapes including Ball and Cone shapes or even Cloud pruning which is a Japanese method of training trees called ‘Niwaki’.

Ilex crenata Caroline Upright can be used to make a hedge, create parterres, be planted in beds or as borders. It is excellent to add architectural interest to any garden or patio and will grow on all well drained soils or in pots. It grows approximately 12-20cm per year and should be pruned in summer. When pruned, it will produce fresh growth from old wood so if hard pruning is needed and areas of bare stem are cut into, new growth will occur.

We recently supplied this variety to the Love Your Garden Team – both instant hedging and topiary ball plants were use to create the build.

Japanese Holly hedging is sold by us potted in varying sizes so can be bought at any time of year subject to availability. Please do call us if you have any further questions and we will do our best to help you.

Delivery leadtimes update- March/April 2024

We are working at maximum capacity to fulfil all orders as quickly as possible but owing to unprecedented demand some orders will take longer:

– Orders containing only bare root plants – delivery is currently within 5-7 days

– All other orders – delivery is currently within 2-3 weeks

Delivery is free for most orders above our free delivery thresholds, these are displayed above our prices in the product listings and summarized below. If you don’t need that many plants it’s not a problem, you can choose to pay our delivery charge and only order what you need.

Delivery is convenient – no signature is required so you don’t need to wait in, we will leave your parcel in the safe place that you nominate.

Delivery is fast – because we pick orders daily from our own growing beds your plants only travel the small hop to our packing shed before being sent to you, they are usually delivered within 3-7 days.

Delivery is reliable
– we have been selling and delivering Hedging Plants to our customers nationwide since 1992. We have a lot of experience in packing them safely and only use tried and tested delivery partners.

Smaller Plants (Parcel Delivery)

LocationOrder ValuePrice
UK Mainland excluding HighlandsUp to £90£15.00
UK Mainland excluding HighlandsOver £90Free
Scottish Highlands and Isle of WightAll orders£24.00

Heavy Plants (Pallet Delivery)

LocationOrder ValuePrice
UK Mainland excluding HighlandsUp to £420£72.00
UK Mainland excluding HighlandsOver £420Free
Scottish Highlands and Isle of WightAll orders£72.00

Tall Plants 2.5m+ (Specialist Delivery)

LocationOrder ValuePrice
UK Mainland excluding HighlandsUnder £1800Please call us
UK Mainland excluding HighlandsOver £1800Free
Scottish Highlands and Isle of WightAll ordersNot available

Exceptions to our delivery charges are Scottish Highland and Isle of Wight delivery areas where we need to charge a little extra to cover the cost of deliveries to these outlying areas. We don’t currently delivery to other offshore addresses including Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.

Tall plants over 2.5 metres have to be delivered by our own specialised transport, our delivery area is limited to mainland England and Wales only.

Please note there is a minimum order value of £50 for orders containing smaller plants and £250 for orders containing heavier plants

Complete delivery information can be viewed on our Delivery Information page

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