Plant of the Day
Friday 26 December 2014
The Taxus baccata (English yew) makes a strong visual and physical boundary to this part of the garden at Anglesey Abbey. The formality is broken by using the same plant in the line but allowing it to take its natural form like a billowing cloud. It could be a cultivar such as Taxus baccata ‘Fastigiata’ that has markedly upward-growing shoots. Yew is excellent for evergreen hedging as it responds to pruning by producing dense growth, but remember it needs a well drained soil and is poisonous.
Jill Raggett
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