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The landscape at Sheffield General Cemetery was designed as a garden cemetery by Robert Marnock (1800–1889). He had previously won a competition to design the Botanical Gardens. Robert Marnock was one of England’s most outstanding horticulturalists and an advocate of the fashionable and innovative gardenesque style conceived by John Claudius Loudon (1783–1843). He admired evergreens for their aesthetic value and used them extensively in his designs. Today Sheffield General Cemetery has many fine mature hollies.
You can read more about Robert Marnock’s use of hollies for their beauty and symbolism here.