Taxus baccata – Hedging

Undoubtedly the ‘posh’ choice for creating a uniformed and elegant hedge line or for more creative and curvaceous delineations/partitions. Little else looks as sharp as yew or retains its clipped shape. Yew is relatively slow growing, so if you are looking for instant impact, you’ll want to follow Flo’s advice which is, ‘to get it at the height you want it’. Clipping twice a year is important to encourage growth, density, and the fusion of the individual plants into one solid hedge line.

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Taxus baccata

Hedging and topiary is always available. Topiary is mostly blobs plus some cones – all sizes. Yew grows in light shade or sun but needs reasonably good drainage. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.

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Hardiness level Green

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Taxus cuspidata var. intermedia ‘Niwaki’

Grown in Japan where – obviously – they use native Japanese yew which is almost indistinguishable from our own. We find these plants take to our climate particularly well. Please contact us for stock availability and sizes.

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Hardiness level Green

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The Acer House

The Acer House We’ve recently completed work building a large shade house. Designed as a place to keep our ever expanding collection of large Acers, it’s a wonderful place to go hunting or just bask in the flurry of colours, leaf shapes, stems and trunks. The Acer House was finished in 2022 spanning over 450…

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Mediterranean Garden Design

Garden Design, Planting & Plants By Us Mediterranean Border Design Designed by Guy, this bold and architectural fusion of Mediterranean and native plants forms a dramatic sculptural border: Cupressus sempervirens ‘Pyramidalis’ (Italian Cypress) under planted with a blobbery of our Taxus Baccata (Yew) & Viburnum tinus (Laurustinus). The stems of the Cupressus have been raised…

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Japanese Garden Design

Japanese Garden Design Our Concept of fusion Our concept of a Japanese Garden Design is a fusion of form, texture, colour and contrast. We like to bring together plants which are intrinsically synonymous with Japanese aesthetics and plants which are most definitely not, but do by their habit and shaping (topiarising), compliment each other brilliantly….

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Niwaki

NIWAKI The literal translation of the Japanese expression ‘Niwaki’ is ‘garden tree’ – being distinct from ‘Bonsai’ meaning ‘potted tree’. Niwaki are the bigger, easy ones that go in the ground. Bonsai are the little, difficult ones that stay in pots. We only do Niwaki. One thing they have in common is the Japanese obsession…

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