Rootballed Yew, Large Hedge Plants

Taxus baccata: Large Rootballed Yew Trees, Ideal for 'Instant Hedging'

These large rootballed yew trees are the largest sizes that you can order from us.

• They are the nearest thing you can get to an "instant" yew hedge.
• They are also great for planting singly in a border to become topiary specimens.
• For smaller, cheaper plants, have a look at our full range of yew hedging.

Yew is an extremely hardy and disease resistant native tree. Its lush evergreen needles clip beautifully into a formal and functional privacy hedge that should add value to any property's garden. Unlike other conifers, it produces red, berry-like "fruit" instead of cones in early winter.

Grown as a tree, it will reach between 10 and 20 metres depending on how much it spreads, but probably not in any of our lifetimes. Old trees have attractive, rusty-brown bark that flakes off, providing housing for insects.

Browse our evergreen hedging plants, our full range of hedging, or our trees.

Delivery season: Rootballed Yew hedge plants are only delivered during winter (November-March) and will be delivered on a pallet.

Choosing a size: With big, comparatively expensive plants like these rootballed Yew, it's really up to your budget to decide which size you want. Smaller trees are cheaper, easier to handle and more forgiving of less than ideal aftercare, so they are best for a big planting project. If instant impact is your priority, or if you are only buying a few plants for use in a place where it is convenient to water them well in their first year, then you may as well use bigger ones.
All our rootballed trees are measured by their height in centimetres above the ground (the roots aren't measured).

Features:

• Height: 10-20m as a tree
• Clips beautifully into a formal evergreen hedge
• One of the best hedges for adding value to a property
• Soil: Any well-drained, shade-tolerant
• Native
• RHS Award of Garden Merit
• Bareroot delivery only: November-March

Growing Yew

Yew will grow in any well-drained soil, and it tolerates deep shade.

A yew hedge can be clipped and pruned hard if necessary: it makes new shoots from old wood, so recovers from mistakes with shears and trimmers.
Neglected yew hedges that have been allowed to become sparse can be cut back hard to encourage dense new growth. You can do this in one go, but if you have time then it is best to do it in chunks over two or three years, so that new shoots have time to develop from the bottom of the trunk.

Spacing Rootballed Yew plants in a hedge: These large Yew plants have quite wide rootballs, so they should be planted 60-75 apart along the hedgerow.