Where can I buy Yew Trees?

Day Lewin · 18-09-2018 1:30pm #1

I want to plant a couple in a kind of rough field.

I bought a couple some 20 years ago, for a different spot, at some place in Wicklow - West Wicklow, I think - Aughrim, Carnew?

Can't recall where it was, and don't know where else to source them.

So, has anyone seen Yew trees for sale?

Ordinary slow-growing Taxus baccata is what I want, not the fastigiate forms or any fancy cultivars

Just hoping that the eagle-eyed spotters of Boards.ie will have seen this someplace and can offer suggestions :-)

clintondaly · 18-09-2018 1:33pm

https://www.gardens4you.ie/taxus-baccata-fastigiata-ie-en.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwxILdBRBqEiwAHL2R843JGrphUGH8dDHUssR3ABK2PyOXFzE4Mr_wIppLFTXY-X7k9pkGjRoCgkgQAvD_BwE

Day Lewin · 18-09-2018 1:43pm

clintondaly wrote: »

https://www.gardens4you.ie/taxus-baccata-fastigiata-ie-en.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwxILdBRBqEiwAHL2R843JGrphUGH8dDHUssR3ABK2PyOXFzE4Mr_wIppLFTXY-X7k9pkGjRoCgkgQAvD_BwE

Thank you, @clintondaly

I think that is the columnar form, though - not the natural wild type.
I see them self-sown in the woods sometimes - presumably from birds excreting the berries. They hold out their branches quite flat, and are brilliant for climbing (when old enough) :-)