Good morning everyone, and Jay..
Is Youpon (sp?) that grows wild here in southeast Texas the
same as what
you are talking about?

Yes.

It is a nusance srub here, one can hardly kill it
out, not that I try to, it makes wonderful big privacy barriers
between
homes.

It is a remarkably adaptable plant. Here it grows in swamps. In
Texas it grows in dry lands.

Here ' Wild Holly" has leaves that have points the will stick
you
and hurt on the leaves and are nothing like youpon.. both have
red berries
in the fall.

I suspect that dry-land yaupon will have wide spreading roots and
may be a bit tough to dig.


This year I discovered something I have never seen in my
life, a varigated
youpon in my back yard. At least there are two little branches
that are
carring varigated leaves, has to be a "Sport" I called a
nursery about it
and she said it might be valuable..??? Don't know, She said to
nurture it
through the summer and the try to root it, she suggested 'air
layering',
what would be the fasted and safest way to get roots so I cna
make it into a
Bonsai? I think it would make a great looking one.
many thanks,

Air layering should work. They do root reasonably well (here, at
least) as cuttings, but it takes a LONG time for a cutting to
amount to anything bonsaiable.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - The phrase
'sustainable growth' is an oxymoron. - Stephen Viederman

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