Taxus baccata ‘Fastigiata Robusta’
Irish yew, Florence Court Yew
Taxus baccata is one of the world’s most popular conifer. An extremely versatile and resilient plant, the Irish yew grows as a compact evergreen shrub with a dark foliage.
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Plant Biography
The Taxus baccata is one of the most wide spread conifer in Europe, considered quite a morbid symbol of death and doom, being found quite often in cemeteries and around churches. However, more recently, this attitude towards the Irish Yew has changed and it’s an increasingly popular plant for hedging and screening.
This cultivar of T.baccata it’s said to have originated in a the wild around Florence Court County, Fermanagh, Ireland around the 18th century. The cultivar’s name ‘fastigiata’ is a reference to its innate tendency to grow its branches more or less parallel to the main stem.
Irish yew is a dioecious plant, with lovely read berries adorning the female plants in winter. Unless the plant flowers and produces fruit, there’s male and female plants are virtually undistinguishable. Flowers appear in March and April with the male plants displaying white-yellow small flowers, whilst the female ones are green, bud-like, and scaly.
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Care & Size Guidance
Taxus baccata is coping really well with heavy pruning, making the Irish yew is a very versatile plant and it can be used both as a specimen plant or a hedge or screen.
Plant in a well drained soil. The plant is tolerant to dry shade, chalk soils, exposed locations and urban pollution.
Plant the Irish Yew in autumn for best results. Water the young plants or newly planted Taxus more often than established ones.
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