Ilex mutchagara Landscaper Favorite in selections like this one

in selections like this one

Carolina jessamine is the state flower of South Carolina and one of the most beloved evergreen vines of the South

The tree carries the name of Augustine Henry

Photos courtesy of John Grimshaw and John Anderson

makes immediate sense in bloom: the flowers are essentially all stamens

Ilex mutchagara Landscaper Favorite in selections like this oneIlex mutchagara is a quiet, graceful evergreen holly from Okinawa, close enough to the familiar Japanese holly, Ilex crenata, that some botanists treat it as a form of that species. The small, glossy, dark green leaves carry fine teeth along the edges but no spines at all, and the habit is open and airy rather than dense, giving the shrub a lighter, more relaxed look than the tightly sheared boxwood substitutes it resembles. Native to Okinawa in the