Ilex verticillata 'Red Sprite' Re-introduce It needs a sunny site

It needs a sunny site with well-drained sandy soil

Subtle the climbing aster is not

in the ground through zones 8 to 10 or in a large container that can shelter under cover from hard frost farther north

or naturalized at the edge of the woods

Ilex verticillata 'Red Sprite' Re-introduce It needs a sunny siteIlex verticillata 'Red Sprite' is winterberry shrunk to garden size and cranked up in intensity. Where much of the landscape fades to gray, this compact native holly turns into a beacon, the bare stems packed with heavy clusters of large, glossy scarlet berries that color in fall and cling deep into winter, a living ember at the pond's edge or against fresh snow. Barely three to five feet tall and about as wide, dense and neatly rounded, 'Red Sprite'