Quercus Ilex / Evergreen Oak Multi-stem
Price range: €2,000.00 through €2,500.00
Description
Strong, sculptural and beautifully evergreen, Quercus ilex Multistem brings year-round structure and quiet grandeur to the garden. With its dense grey-green foliage, naturally architectural form and timeless character, this multi-stemmed holm oak is a wonderful choice for creating presence, privacy and permanence in a planting scheme.
It has a calm, grounded quality that works especially well in contemporary gardens, Mediterranean-inspired spaces and larger landscapes where evergreen structure matters. As a multi-stem specimen, it offers all the strength of Quercus ilex with a softer, more characterful silhouette.
Why we love it
There’s something wonderfully steady about Quercus ilex. It feels established, elegant and enduring. The multi-stem form adds extra shape and interest, making it a beautiful focal point as well as a practical evergreen screen or anchor plant.
There’s something wonderfully steady about Quercus ilex. It feels established, elegant and enduring. The multi-stem form adds extra shape and interest, making it a beautiful focal point as well as a practical evergreen screen or anchor plant.
Appearance
This evergreen tree has leathery, oval leaves in rich grey-green, often with a slightly silvery underside that catches the light beautifully. In multistem form, it develops a broad, sculptural framework from the base, giving it a softer and more architectural presence than a standard single-trunk tree. Over time, it becomes dense, handsome and deeply characterful.
This evergreen tree has leathery, oval leaves in rich grey-green, often with a slightly silvery underside that catches the light beautifully. In multistem form, it develops a broad, sculptural framework from the base, giving it a softer and more architectural presence than a standard single-trunk tree. Over time, it becomes dense, handsome and deeply characterful.
Best for
- Evergreen structure in larger gardens
- Screening and privacy
- Mediterranean and architectural planting schemes
- Feature planting in lawns or gravel gardens
- Courtyards and sheltered landscape settings
Position
Best grown in full sun though it will also tolerate partial shade once established.
Best grown in full sun though it will also tolerate partial shade once established.
Soil
It prefers well-drained soil and is highly tolerant once settled, coping well with dry conditions, coastal exposure and a range of soil types.
It prefers well-drained soil and is highly tolerant once settled, coping well with dry conditions, coastal exposure and a range of soil types.
Growth habit
Quercus ilex Multistem is a large evergreen multi-stem tree with a dense, rounded to spreading habit and a strong architectural framework.
Quercus ilex Multistem is a large evergreen multi-stem tree with a dense, rounded to spreading habit and a strong architectural framework.
Seasonal interest
- Spring: fresh new evergreen growth
- Summer: dense structure and rich foliage
- Autumn: lasting form and deep green presence
- Winter: evergreen screening, shelter and architectural shape
Caragh’s Garden Notebook
A brilliant choice for structure
If you want a garden to feel grounded and established, this is a wonderful tree to build around.
If you want a garden to feel grounded and established, this is a wonderful tree to build around.
Multi-stem adds softness
The multi-stem form gives it a more natural, sculptural look, which works beautifully in both formal and relaxed spaces.
The multi-stem form gives it a more natural, sculptural look, which works beautifully in both formal and relaxed spaces.
Excellent for privacy
Its dense evergreen canopy makes it especially useful where year-round screening is needed.
Its dense evergreen canopy makes it especially useful where year-round screening is needed.
Tough and dependable
Once established, Quercus ilex is remarkably resilient and well suited to exposed, coastal or drier sites.
Once established, Quercus ilex is remarkably resilient and well suited to exposed, coastal or drier sites.
Additional information
| Pot Size | 360L 3.5metres tall, Multi-stem, 280L 3.5metres tall, Multistem |
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