One of the designers top pics for home foundation plantings, Bordeaux is unique among dwarf yaupon hollies in that it produces colorful deep burgundy new growth throughout the warm season on dense mounds. This new growth matures to attractive, oval-shape, boxwood-like, grey-green leaves that have have no points. It is an exceptionally tough evergreen shrub, being both drought and heat tolerant, and also tolerating more moisture in the soil than other hollies.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Its dense and mounding form 2 to 4 feet in height and 3 to 5 feet wide (depending on pruning), and the fact that it responds very well to shearing, makes the Bordeaux Yaupon one of the best evergreen shrubs for use in home foundation plantings. The shrub can be kept to about half its mature size with regular pruning or shearing. It can also be useful as an underplanting for mid-size trees such as Crape Myrtle and Japanese Maples, in groupings or mass plantings, or as a low-growing natural to formal hedge.

Note:  For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 7a, where this Yaupon Holly is not winter hardy, you'll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Growing Preferences

Bordeaux Dwarf Yaupon is exceptionally easy to grow in most any average, moist but well-drained to moderately drained soil in full sun or partial shade. Yaupon hollies tolerate more moisture than other species of holly, making them a great alternative to Japanese hollies (Ilex crenata), which don't like wet feet at all. So, if you have a site that holds more moisture, and are looking for a low, mounding evergreen shrub to plant, yaupon holly might just be your choice. Dwarf yaupon hollies require no pruning however respond very well to shearing for formal hedges and various interesting geometrical shapes.

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