The common holly produces a solid, prickly impenetrable hedge with glossy, dark green foliage with red berries providing food for wildlife in winter. A dark green Holly hedge will make an attractive backdrop for decorative plants within the garden. Holly hedges can be trimmed into fantastic formal shapes. Holly can be cut back hard and still regenerate from old wood. Although Holly is slower growing than other popular hedging species, it can still establish as a hedge in a reasonable timescale. An excellent choice for a solid evergreen security hedge requiring low maintenance.
Holly Hedge Planting Distances – Single row- 2 – 3 plants per metre
Evergreen Shrub – Dark Green prickly leaves – Red Berries
Features: Red Berries, Great for a formal security hedge
Likes full sun or partial shade
Soil Preference: any soil (except waterlogged)
Unsuitable for: Waterlogged soils
Average Growth rate: Slow 10 – 15cm per annum
Trimming: Late summer
All our Holly hedging plants are container grown and will have a fully intact and undisturbed root system. They will establish quicker than root-balled plants with fewer losses as there has been no disturbance to the root system.
