Ideally suited for Southern gardens, this cultivar was selected for its carefree, vertical growth habit. Exceptional, dense, finely textured, shiny, dark green foliage is deer resistant. A splendid foundation plant or landscape specimen that is both heat and shade tolerant. Use to create a bold statement in formal groupings. Evergreen. Slowly forms a broad, upright shrub 10 ft. tall, 6 to 8 ft. wide.