Ilex crenata 'Sky Pencil' ~ Monrovia® Sky Pencil Japanese Holly conifer Torchlight Coleus is a tender

Torchlight Coleus is a tender shade-loving evergreen perennial treated as an annual primarily grown for its dramatic foliage

The delicate looking foliage has colors for each season: it emerges bright green in spring

Heavy blooms of large baseball-sized clusters of flowers open tinted green and maturing to pure white bloom in spring and give way to bright red berries that mature to black in fall

Picturata Aucuba is a shade loving variegated evergreen shrub with leaves that host a yellow center and have the signature yellow speckles coating the green margins

Tiny deep red flowers surrounded by yellow and green striped brackets bloom all summer attracting bees and butterflies

Ilex crenata 'Sky Pencil' ~ Monrovia® Sky Pencil Japanese Holly conifer Torchlight Coleus is a tenderMonrovia Sky Pencil Japanese Holly is a slow growing evergreen shrub with an exceedingly narrow upright habit and small dark green spineless leaves. If pollinated, the inconspicuous flowers in spring to give way to small purple fruits in fall which last through winter. Best planted in 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