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Yew hedge plants

Taxus baccata Hedging

From £3.19

The King of Hedging, English Yew. Yew hedging, also referred to by its Latin name Taxus baccata, boasts stunning dark-green, conifer foliage that is easy to maintain and trim, and has a slow growth rate. Yew is the perfect hedge plant for shaping formal displays. If you’re looking 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.

  • Best Features: Evergreen foliage, year-round interest, slow growing for easy maintenance, RHS Hedging
  • Ideal For Hedges:  1m-4m high
  • Growth Rate: Slow to Average | 20-40cm a year
  • Position: Any normal soil (or dry if watered), sun to full shade, exposed inland
  • Also Consider: For species with dense foliage, similar to Taxus baccata, try Portuguese Laurel (Prunus Lusitanica)
Grouped product items
ImageRoot TypeHeight NowExtra InfoNo Per
Metre
1+10+50+100+250+QtyAdd
English Yew 60/80cm root ball
English Yew 60/80cm root ball

Root Ball
7 year old

60/80cm

Free delivery over £350 Find Out More

3

£19.99

£19.59

£19.39

£19.19

£18.99

English Yew 80/100cm root ball
English Yew 80/100cm root ball

Root Ball
7 year old

80/100cm

Free delivery over £350 Find Out More

2.5 to 3

£26.99

£26.49

£26.19

£25.89

£25.59

English Yew 100/125cm root ball
English Yew 100/125cm root ball

Root Ball
7 year old

100/125cm

Free delivery over £350 Find Out More

2 to 2.5

£33.99

£33.29

£32.99

£32.59

£32.29

English Yew 125/150cm root ball
English Yew 125/150cm root ball

Root Ball
9 year old

125/150cm

Free delivery over £350 Find Out More

2 to 2.5

£56.99

£55.89

£55.29

£54.69

£54.09

English Yew 150/175cm root ball
English Yew 150/175cm root ball

Root Ball
10 year old

150/175cm

Free delivery over £350 Find Out More

2 to 2.5

£77.99

£76.39

£75.69

£74.89

£74.09

English Yew 175/200cm root ball
English Yew 175/200cm root ball

Root Ball
11 year old

175/200cm

Free delivery over £350 Find Out More

1 to 1.5

£139.99

£137.19

£135.79

£134.39

£132.99

English Yew 200/225cm root ball
English Yew 200/225cm root ball

Root Ball
13 year old

200/225cm

Free delivery over £350 Find Out More

1

£174.99

£173.19

£171.79

£169.39

£167.99

English Yew 225/250cm Root ball
English Yew 225/250cm Root ball

Root Ball
15 year old

225/250cm

Free delivery over £350 Find Out More

1

£529.99

£519.39

£514.09

£508.79

£503.49

English Yew 20/40cm bare root
English Yew 20/40cm bare root

Bare Root

20/40cm

4 to 5

£3.19

£3.19

£3.19

£3.19

£3.19

English Yew 40/60cm bare root
English Yew 40/60cm bare root

Bare Root

40/60cm

4 to 5

£4.09

£4.09

£4.09

£4.09

£4.09

English Yew 60/80cm bare root
English Yew 60/80cm bare root

Bare Root

60/80cm

4 to 5

£7.29

£7.09

£7.09

£6.99

£6.89

English Yew 80/100cm bare root
English Yew 80/100cm bare root

Bare Root

80/100cm

4 to 5

£10.39

£10.39

£10.39

£10.39

£10.39

English Yew 15/30cm Cell grown
English Yew 15/30cm Cell grown

Pot Grown
Cell Grown

15/30cm

Min Qty 12

5 to 7

£3.49

£3.49

£3.49

£3.49

£3.49

English Yew 20/30cm 9cm pot
English Yew 20/30cm 9cm pot

Pot Grown
9cm Pot (P9)

20/30cm

-

-

£4.99

£4.99

£4.99

£4.99

£4.99

English Yew 20/40cm 2L pot
English Yew 20/40cm 2L pot

Pot Grown
2L Pot

20/40cm

3 to 5

£11.99

£11.89

£11.79

£11.49

£11.39

English Yew 40/60cm 2L pot
English Yew 40/60cm 2L pot

Pot Grown
2L Pot

40/60cm

3 to 5

£13.99

£13.89

£13.69

£13.39

£13.29

English Yew 120/150cm 10L pot
English Yew 120/150cm 10L pot

Pot Grown
10L Pot

120/150cm

Free delivery over £350 Find Out More

3

£63.99

£63.69

£62.99

£62.39

£61.69

English Yew 40L 80/100cm 1 metre trough
English Yew 40L 80/100cm 1 metre trough

Instant Hedging
1m Trough

80/100cm 1m Trough

Free delivery over £350 Find Out More

1

£159.99

£156.69

£153.49

£151.89

£149.89

Taxus baccata Hedge Plant Description

Taxus baccata or English Yew is a classic British conifer hedge plant. Yew creates an attractive, native screen that looks striking when trimmed into formal shapes or organic curves. The dark foliage of a Taxus baccata plant is scattered with fleshy red fruits in the autumn, which prove popular with a variety of wildlife. Yew plants work equally as well planted for aesthetic purposes in a garden, or used for landscape hedging, due to the traditional appearance and tough nature of these hedge plants.

Popular Uses for Taxus baccata

If you’re looking to create a perfectly neat, formal hedging, as well as sweeping curves and unusual shapes, for example, cloud pruning, Yew is ideal and will enable you to achieve your perfect landscape design. Yew is also perfect if you’re sunlight is limited as this hedge plant is great for shaded sites and a fantastic option when faced with awkward positions. Taxus baccata is tolerant of any soil type except for extremely wet conditions. Not only does Yew hedging make an effective privacy screen, but it also acts as a barrier for noise and wind, so ideal for urban areas. Aside from its extraordinary features, English Yew provides a striking, dark-green backdrop for colourful plants and shrubs in the garden.

Combine Yew Hedge Plants With

Yew hedging looks brilliant when planted alone; however, plants such as Viburnum or Rose can provide a colourful, visual texture when interplanted with Yew, and can soften the sometimes harsh shape. 

Growth rate of English Yew (Taxus baccata)

Taxus baccata hedging is renowned for being slow growing; however, it does maintain an average growth rate of 20-40cm a year, reaching a good height at 2m-4m.

Care and Pruning Advice for Yew (Taxus baccata) Hedging 

English Yew hedge plants require plenty of water in the first few years while establishing; however, they cannot tolerate wet feet. Yew hedging is low maintenance with no regular pruning necessary, although it does take well to trimming when required. Please take a look at our Hedging Care Advice page for further information.

Common Yew Hedge Problems

All the hedging and plants we supply at best4hedging are fresh and healthy, and well looked after our nurseries. However, being a living specimen means that sometimes problems can occur. Here is a list of common issues that can affect Yew:

Phytophthora – A large genus of microscopic pathogens, often described as a fungus, and although they resemble fungi, they are distinctly separate. A disease associated with heavy and waterlogged soils, Phytophthora will attack and kill the roots of Taxus.

Symptoms – Above ground, the foliage will turn a dark matt green or brown. These are symptoms indicative of poor water uptake, as the roots are progressively destroyed, and could be mistaken for drought or honey fungus. Below ground, smaller roots will have rotted away and more extensive roots will appear blackened and will be soft and easily broken. As this is a microscopic pathogen, there will be no visible signs of its presence.

Natural Control – Improve soil drainage with grit or land drains. Remove and destroy all infected plants and replace topsoil in the immediate vicinity if practical to do so – plant with less susceptible species (see Appendix II). There is no effective chemical control for Phytophthora in the soil.

Vine Weevil (larvae) (Otiorhynchus sulcatus) - Vine weevil is a beetle that attacks a wide range of plants, but it is the larvae that causes the most damage over autumn and winter when they feed on the plant roots.

Symptoms –The larvae are around 5-10 mm long, creamy white colour with tan-brown heads, they live in the soil and eat the fleshy young roots in autumn and winter. This can result in wilting and death of the plant.

Natural Control – To control the larvae use the microscopic nematode Steinernema kraussei which is available from garden centres. This tiny creature invades the body of the grub and kills it. For best results, water into the soil in August or September when the soil temperature is still warm enough for the nematode to be effective (5-20ºC) and before the vine weevil grubs have grown large enough to cause severe damage.

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

Recommended Planting Density for Yew (Taxus baccata)

For specific information on the planting density of Yew hedging, please see the product table. In the 'No. Per Metre' column, you will find our recommended plant density for individual plant species and root type. You can find out more information about calculating planting density here.

Yew hedge plants are sold as; root ball hedging which is available to plant between autumn (usually October) and spring; bare roots which can be planted from November through to late April/early May (depending on the season) and pot grown or cell grown plants, which are available to buy year-round.

Most of our Taxus baccata plants are grown in Britain by hedging professionals with vast amounts of horticultural know-how. Although, now and again, 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.

Delivery Time - Please note that delivery times are currently 2-7 days. *Some troughs, trees and premium products may take up to 14 days delivery.

Free Delivery - The majority of orders over the minimum order values shown below are delivered FREE to UK Mainland. Please note, we are unable to deliver to N.I. and the Republic of Ireland.   (Exceptions apply - see Delivery Areas)

all costs & min.order

min. order
free delivery

bare
root

root
ball

pot grown
& topiary

cell
grown

instant
trough

trees

planting essentials

standard box delivery
£14.99

£60

bare roots up to 1.2m

-

pot size up to and including 7.5L

all
(min qty 12)

-

ornamental & fruit trees

all tools, irrigation, canes & mulch matting

tall box delivery
£14.99

£60

bare roots 1.2m+

 

 

 

 

 

 

pallet delivery
£60.00

£350

-

all

pot size 10L & above,  root ball & topiary

-

all
(min qty 3)

 

topsoil

pleached trees delivery
£450.00

£1500

 

 

 

 

 

All pleached trees

 

 

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