The english yew has been awarded a prestigious rhs award of garden merit and is ideal for growing as a formal hedge 45 it tolerates regular clipping and is easily shaped for topiary a good all round tough plant that is tolerant of dry soils this taxus baccata is a medium45sized bushy evergreen tree with very dark green leathery leaves female plants produce red cup45shaped non45edible autumn fruits and male plants offer yellow cones in spring supplied as 30 45 45cm bareroots