Ilex crenata 'Soft-Touch' ~ Soft Touch Japanese Holly tolerates-salt (3) Photo by Tom Potterfield

(3) Photo by Tom Potterfield

Blooms best in partial sun and moist well-drained soils

Purple Beauty Creeping Phlox is a native low-growing evergreen perennial with dark green awl-shaped foliage

Monarda fistulosa is the native bee balm that is a host plant for the Hermit Sphinx Moth

Ilex crenata 'Soft-Touch' ~ Soft Touch Japanese Holly tolerates-salt (3) Photo by Tom PotterfieldSoft Touch Japanese Holly is a soft textured evergreen shrub with a rounded habit and small dark green spineless leaves that have a thin silver mid vein. The inconspicuous flowers in spring to give way to small black fruits in fall which last through winter. Best planted moist, slightly acidic well drained soils. Hollies are dioecious and need both male and female plants to produce fruit. Type: Shrub Origins: East Asia and eastern Russia Height: 2' 3'