*RETAIL - Quercus ilex broadleaf evergreen A very easy plant to

A very easy plant to grow

very fragrant blue flowers in late spring and early summer

purplish tinges in winter

From Japan and frost hardy in upper USDA zone 7

from the diverse prickly pear population near St

*RETAIL - Quercus ilex broadleaf evergreen A very easy plant toNative 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