The quintessential Mediterranean evergreen: its acorns provide precious food for wildlife.
The holm oak is the great evergreen oak of Mediterranean cities: dense shade twelve months a year, extraordinary resistance to pollution, salt and drought, and a crown that can be shaped architecturally. Irreplaceable on seafronts and in historic squares.
Its sweet acorns fed Italic peoples before wheat became widespread — to the Romans it was sacred to Jupiter — and today they fatten the pigs behind Spain's prized jamón ibérico de bellota.
Browse the full catalogue: over 70 ornamental tree species ready for transplanting.