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Grab your favorite fall plants and get another for FREE! December 7, The Yew family of shrubs, also known as Taxus. Yew trees and shrubs were symbols of immortality for some and omens of doom for others. Easy-care conifers, you will enjoy the year-round greenery, pollen-filled cone-like flowers, and seasonal red berries! Plants in the Taxus family are steeped in holiday traditions and strongly associated with churchyards, and church graveyards as a symbol of sadness, and as holiday décor!
Taxus family conifers were described in by Carolus Linnæus and the name may have been derived from the Greek word - toxon , meaning bow or arrow. Produce berry-like fruit from a scale-like cone on female plants.
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There are over cultivars of Yew bushes, but the two main types used for landscaping are the English European Yew and the Japanese Yew. All are conifers with similar, flat soft foliage, relatively slower growth, and red berry-like fruit on female plants. The wood of mature Yews is prized for furniture making and is surrounded by a reddish bark that looks nice in the winter.
Plus the bark has the chemical paclitaxel which is being tested for use in curing cancers - including ovarian and gastric cancers! Yew bushes are long-lived, disease-resistant, and easy to grow! Add their fluffy evergreen factor to your landscape and see why they are a landscaping standard for hedges, privacy , and foundation borders!
For clean formal pruned hedges and even creative topiary, Taxus have a world of versatility and blend into a wide range of garden styles, sizes, and landscape use! Plus Yews are loved for its craft and décor uses around the holidays - like winter wreaths, garland, swags, outdoor holiday container displays , and Christmas decorations! Few coniferous bushes can boast that! The large variation of sizes and habits displayed by Yews creates numerous uses in landscapes.
Some varieties make great hedges because of their dense foliage and others are just begging to be used individually as a specimen. Either way, the soft needles add fine-textured fringe to your garden! There are many horticultural forms and cultivars and the primary difference between them is the growth habit and size. Plus, the Yew is often a great option when Junipers and Arborvitae are not an option, Yews are perfect alternatives!
Yews shrubs take to pruning very well and even Yews that have outgrown their space can be cut back severely and they will send out new shoots in spring. Bouncing back to looking great in a short time period. Yews are wonderful for topiary work because of just how adaptable to pruning and shaping they are! Yew bushes have male bushes and female bushes, in a similar fashion to Holly bushes.
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Male shrubs produce rows of little buttons of pollen along the branch like tiny yellow pom poms. The female cones produce a pulpy red berry around the cone called an aril. Being wind-pollinated, you will need to plant multiple plants in the same vicinity to ensure you have a male shrub among the females in order to enjoy those festive red berries in the fall and to feed local songbirds.
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Nature Hills is doing its part in preventing plant movement of invasives, insects, and diseases! Japanese Yews are soft and fluffy, and one of the only Evergreens that can grow in full sun and full shade!
The shade tolerance is amazing and rare for an evergreen. They can tolerate almost any soil as long as it is well drained. Drought tolerant and easy to grow but they will appreciate a inch layer of mulch over the roots.