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Overgrown Evergreens
Yew (Taxus)
When in doubt, plant a yew (or juniper),
seems to be the solution to many landscape design quandaries. After all,
they’re easy to find at any garden center or nursery, they’re relatively inexpensive, they grow pretty quickly and best of all,
when they inevitably grow too large for the space in which they’re planted, they can be mowed back into shape with hedge shears!
However, before adding them to your landscape just remember . . . . . . , deer love them, they won’t survive in wet soils and they grow very LARGE!
- `Cap' yew
- (Taxus cuspidata `Capitata')
- Eight to twelve inches per year
- Twenty to forty feet tall and twenty feet wide
- `Dwarf Cap' yew
- (Taxus x. cuspidata `Nana')
- Six to eight inches per year
- Six to eight feet tall and six to eight feet wide
- `Brown's' yew
- (Taxus x. media `Brownii')
- Eight to twelve inches per year
- Fifteen feet tall and fifteen feet wide
- `Dense' yew
- (Taxus x. media `Densiformis')
- Six to eight inches per year
- Six to ten feet tall and eight to twelve feet wide
- `Everlow' yew
- (Taxus x. media `Everlow')
- Six to ten inches per year
- Four to six feet tall and ten to fifteen feet wide
- `Greenwave' yew
- (Taxus x. media `Greenwave')
- Six to ten inches per year
- Four to six feet tall and eight to twelve feet wide
- `Hick's' yew
- (Taxus x. media `Hicksii')
- Eight to twelve inches per year
- Twenty feet tall and ten feet wide
- `Taunton' yew
- (Taxus x. media `Taunton')
- Six to twelve inches per year
- Five to eight feet tall and fifteen feet wide
- `Ward's' yew
- (Taxus x. media `Wardii')
- Eight to twelve inches per year
- Six to eight feet tall and twenty feet wide