Prune yew hedges in early spring, usually around March, and again in late summer, by September, to keep them looking sharp and under control. Live yew plants are available from Walmart.

Plants that grow outwards rather than upwards ... Aside from this annual maintenance, a yew hedge is easy to care for and it’s notably pest- and disease-resistant. Although the leaves are ...

It is clear that parts of this important hedge have been removed, contrary to Hedgerow regulations,” a spokesperson added. Last year, the fields and hedgerows of Yew Tree Farm and the fields ...

but if you stop pruning a hedge of English yew, it will eventually grow 30 or 40 feet high. In England, there are towering yew trees hundreds of years old. It’s normal for many kinds of trees ...

Police were called this morning after a farmer and her supporters began a blockade and stand-off with an agricultural contractor sent to create a new gateway in a hedge on the main road out of ...

There is something very Alice in Wonderland about the eccentric yew topiary of Crathes. It’s as if these “egg and cup” forms were meant to be precise geometrical shapes but, out of some will ...

Yew trees were once widespread throughout Ireland ... It is only relatively recently that much of the Irish landscape was enclosed into hedge-bound fields. Church grounds might have been among ...