• Eventual height: 20m
  • Eventual spread: 10m

Taxus baccata

English yew

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  • Position: Full sun or partial shade
  • Soil: Moderately fertile, moist but well-drained soil
  • Rate of growth: Slow
  • Hardiness: Fully hardy


Needle-like, dark green leaves on horizontal branches and fleshy, cup-shaped, bright-red autumn fruits on female plants. The dark green foliage of this slow-growing, evergreen conifer provides an excellent background for shrub and herbaceous borders. Broadly conical in shape, it's tolerant to dry shade, chalky and acid soils, and urban pollution. Yew also makes a fabulous, formal hedge.

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  • Garden care:
    Trim or renovate in late summer or early autumn.
    • Humans/Pets: TOXIC if eaten
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