If you're looking for a shrub that will establish quickly in your garden, don't go for English Holly - this shrub is slow-growing. But, once established, it can thrive for decades in the right position with very little maintenance.

Holly hedges plants have a slow growth rate of approximately 10-15cm each year. They will create a thick, decorative display reaching a height of up to 4m.

English holly is an ornamental. flowering, evergreen tree or tall hedge in the Aquifoliaceae family often found in well-drained soils in scrub, hedges and woodland where it is often the dominant under-storey shrub. ... It can be allowed to grow to its full height or pruned and trained as a 10 or 15 foot hedge.

Because of their evergreen nature, ease of pruning, and generally quick growth rate, hollies are the perfect plants for screening and hedging in the garden. If you are imagining a large hedge, consider I. × aquipernyi since it reaches between 20 and 25 feet at maturity.. . . . .364011235692!]0000000000000009783314144800!]