Low-growing evergreen shrub with dark green needles and long, spreading branches that droop at the tips. Unlike the English yew which eventually becomes treelike, this variety stays low to the ground, growing only 2 to 3 feet high but extending to several feet wide. These plants need alkaline soil. They are female plants, meaning that they bear red....(cont.)
An excellent hedging form,this narrow columnar shrub is hardier than the "Irish Yew" with lustrous dark green needles. probably the most common landscape yew. Very hardy once established.