Holly is suitable for planting in moist and semi-shady areas. It likes fertile soil and can grow well in ordinary soil. It has no strict environmental requirements.

The seedlings planted that year can be allowed to grow naturally after being watered thoroughly once. Irrigation is done every 15 days depending on the moisture content. Combined with cultivating and weeding, topdressing is done 1 to 2 times every spring and autumn. Generally, nitrogen is applied. Lord's thin liquid fertilizer.

Holly sprouts and grows branches many times every year and is extremely resistant to pruning. It needs to be pruned once in summer. In autumn, it can be pruned flat or pruned into a spherical or conical shape according to different greening needs, and the branches should be thinned appropriately to maintain a certain crown-shaped branch state. In places with relatively cold winters, measures such as piling soil to prevent cold can be taken.

Extended information:

Holly is a subtropical tree species that likes warm climates and has certain cold tolerance. Suitable for growing in fertile, moist, well-drained acidic soil. It is more tolerant of dampness, has strong germination ability and is resistant to pruning. Strong resistance to carbon dioxide. It often grows in hillside mixed forest, and grows in evergreen broad-leaved forest and forest edge on hillside at an altitude of 500-1000 meters.

At the same time, holly is also suitable for solitary planting on lawns, in courtyards, along walls, on both sides of garden paths, or scattered on stacked rocks and hills. Holly is often taken from old piles or suppressed to make it dwarf and used to make bonsai.

Holly is distributed in tropical, subtropical to temperate regions of both hemispheres, mainly in Central and South America and tropical Asia.