ZONE:
4
HEIGHT:
80-100 cm
SPREAD:
150-175 cm
ZONE:
4
HEIGHT:
80-100 cm
SPREAD:
150-175 cm
A versatile evergreen tolerating heavy pruning, making it ideal for hedges, screens, foundation plantings and topiary landscapes. It can also be left unpruned for a softer textured landscape. Extremely low tolerance for wet, poorly drained conditions. Add protection (burlap wrap) from drying winter winds in an exposed location.
All parts of the plant are poisonous to human beings, dogs, cats, and horses, except the flesh of the basically tasteless berry. The hard seed inside the berry is also poisonous. Unfortunately, the poison does not seem to affect deer.
Mature taxus specimens have the ability to regrow from old wood; older specimens in the garden can be rejuvenated.