Taxus baccata
English yew
- Position: full sun or partial shade
- Soil: any fertile, well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: slow-growing
- Other features: yellow, male cones in spring; female plants produce fleshy, cup-shaped, bright red autumn fruits; all parts of the plant are highly toxic if ingested
- Hardiness: fully hardy
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Needle-like, dark green leaves on horizontal branches and fleshy, cup-shaped, bright-red autumn fruits on female plants. The dark green foliage of this slow-growing, evergreen conifer provides an excellent background for shrub and herbaceous borders. Broadly conical in shape, it's tolerant to dry shade, chalky and acid soils and urban pollution. Common box makes a fabulous formal hedge. - Garden care: Trim or renovate in summer or early autumn.
- CAUTION toxic if eaten
Iris 'Black Swan'
bearded iris
Sumptuous dark purple, bearded flowers
Camellia japonica 'Nobilissima'
camellia
Early flowering, with white blooms
Daphne odora 'Aureomarginata'
daphne
Fragrant flowers in late winter
Buxus sempervirens
common box - cone
Ideal for a formal garden
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