Yew, English Yew 'Amersfoort'

Love this yew... it caught my eye at a nursery and when I read the tag I was really surprised to find out it was a yew! Easy care, everg...Read Morereen, looks different from any other shrub in the garden. What's not to love?

I find this to be the most unusual and most interseting of all the cultivars of yews. The rounded needle tips give the plant a very diff...Read Moreerent look from any other of its genus. It can be used as hedging or tightly clipped into any of the usual forms. But it lends itself to much more creative and naturalistic aesthetics. It can be left to its own devices or pruned with an esoteric eye to create something entirely different from anything you will find in your neighbor's garden. It is a terribly under utilized member of an exhaustingly common tribe. Seek it out!