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English Yew Hedging, Taxus baccata, and Hedges Direct are shrubs for sale.

The King of Hedging was English.The dark-green conifer foliage of yew hedging is easy to maintain and trim, and has a slow growth rate.For shaping formal displays, Yew is the perfect hedge plant.If you want to create a dense, evergreen hedging display that can also transform into a privacy screen hedge, or be used to help reduce noise, Taxus baccata is worth considering.

English Yew is a classic British conifer hedge plant.When trimmed into formal shapes or organic curves, the screen looks striking.The Taxus baccata plant has bright red fruits in the autumn which are popular with a variety of wildlife.Due to the traditional appearance and tough nature of these hedge plants, yew can be planted for aesthetic purposes in a garden or used for landscape hedging.

If you want to create a perfectly neat, formal hedging, as well as sweeping curves and unusual shapes, Yew is ideal and will allow you to achieve your perfect landscape design.This hedge plant is great for shade sites and a great option when faced with awkward positions.Taxus baccata is tolerant of any type of soil.In addition to being an effective privacy screen, Yew hedging acts as a barrier for noise and wind and is ideal for urban areas.English Yew has a striking green backdrop for plants and shrubs in the garden.

When planted with Yew, plants such as Viburnum or Rose can provide a colourful, visual texture, which can make the hedging look harsh.

Taxus baccata hedging has an average growth rate of 20-40 cm a year, reaching a good height of 2m-4m.

English Yew hedge plants can't tolerate wet feet, so they need a lot of water in the first few years.It doesn't take a lot of maintenance and it does take well to trim when required.You can find further information on our Hedging Care Advice page.

All of the hedging and plants we supply at best4hedging are fresh and healthy.Being a living specimen means that there can be problems.There are a number of issues that can affect Yew.

Although they are often described as a fungus, the Phytophthora are distinctly different.The roots of Taxus will be killed by a disease associated with heavy soils.

Above ground, the foliage will turn a dark green or brown.These are symptoms of poor water absorption, as the roots are destroyed and could be mistaken for a disease.Smaller roots will rot away and larger ones will appear blackened and will be easy to break.There will be no visible signs of the pathogen.

Improve soil drainage with a land drain.If practical, replace the topsoil in the immediate vicinity with plants with less susceptible species.There is no effective control of Phytophthora in the soil.

The most damaging part of the vine weevil is when it feeds on the plant roots in the fall and winter.

They live in the soil and eat the young roots in autumn and winter.This can cause the plant to die.

Natural Control can be used to control the larvae.The grub is killed by a tiny creature.If you want to get the best results, water into the soil in August or September when the temperature is still warm enough for the nematode to be effective and before the vine weevil grubs have grown large enough to cause severe damage.

There are no chemical control methods for application to the soil around plants, though a product containing acetamiprid is available for pot grown plants.

The planting density of Yew hedging can be found in the product table.In the 'No.You can find our recommended plant density in the Metre' column.There is more information about calculating planting density here.

The root ball hedging, bare roots, and pot grown or cell grown plants are available to buy year-round.

Most of the Taxus baccata plants are grown in Britain.It is necessary to source Yew from specialist nurseries abroad, where we make sure that the quality is of the very highest standards.At best4hedging, we continuously strive to deliver the freshest plants of the utmost quality while maintaining competitive prices, to ensure you can buy Yew hedge plants with confidence from our nursery in Lancashire.

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