Ilex myrtifolia x opaca 'Sand Pond' 26/2 Restock a regional treasure built entirely

a regional treasure built entirely on these unassuming white spring blooms

The fruit is a small coral pome

and juniper has a long history in European and Native American medicine for urinary and digestive complaints

and in the open the crown rounds and spreads with age

but with berries the color of amber

Ilex myrtifolia x opaca 'Sand Pond' 26/2 Restock a regional treasure built entirelyIlex 'Sand Pond' is a Woodlanders introduction with a good story and better berries, a natural hybrid between two southeastern native hollies: the stately American holly, Ilex opaca, and the fine textured myrtle leaf holly, Ilex myrtifolia. The cross carries small, narrow, glossy evergreen leaves midway between the parents, on a plant that colors up each fall with an unusually heavy set of large red berries. The plant came out of the wild. We found