PlantFiles: Yaupon Holly
Ilex vomitoria 'Schillings Dwarf'

This is a real nice evergreen shrub. It takes the weather very well but you have to make sure it gets some water if it doesn't rain often. Otherwise the leaves can turn brown and the limbs will die. It does hold a cut shape very well as it's a slow grower. This shrub looks good around the house foundation or even out in the open by itself.

I planted three of these in my front walkway garden well over fifteen years ago. They never freeze, they never got any kind of pest or fungus and they are not irrigated except by hand watering or rain. They are up against the house and so when it rains they will get run off from the roof. They require very little trimming, I just shape them up maybe twice a year when some new growth is emerging. They are shaded in morning and then get full sun middle hot part of the day and then filtered sun in the late day. I've seen over trimming of these that can cause a hole in the perfect neatness of these bushes, they really don't require heavy trimming. Mine have never grown up any taller than four foot. So they make a nice in front of the house hedge.

A great choice as a hedge, border or foundation planting. Slow growing and they maintain a perfect rounded shape that makes them look as though they are professionally trimmed every day.
Very small leaves. Much smaller than a regular yaupon. They are reportedly deer resistant. Rich, dark colored leaves offers good contrast with other things you may have planted. I don't think I've ever seen one not doing well. Easy to find in Florida garden centers.