Holly olive is a delightful shrub which is very versatile and easy to grow it can be grown in a wide range of soils from sand chalk or clay osmanthus heterophyllus likes to be planted in full sun or partial shade in well45drained soil chinese holly as the name suggests resembles our native holly tree and being multi45spined it also has a dense evergreen growing habit with fragrant white flowers in late summer and autumn which are replaced with blue47black fruits instead of the