On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 21:08:15 +0100, Bush
wrote:

Sacha wrote:

The best thing is to ring around various nurseries and gcs in your
area. If you want several for hedging, you could also do an internet
search for mail order suppliers but it's as well to know something
about whatever source you decide upon. For example, we sell yews
between 4 and 5 feet tall for 13 ukp but Ray tells me that fastigiate
yews are more expensive, generally speaking.

Yes, I do have hedging in mind. Fastigiate ? Tell me more...

Taxus baccata is the common English yew often used for hedging. The
Taxus baccata fastigiata is the Irish yew which forms a column of
closely packed branches. There's also T.baccata fastigiata
aureomarginata which is the golden Irish yew. Where people in this
area want to achieve that lovely Med. column of Cupressus
sempervirens, they often use T.b. fastigiata because C. sempervirens
doesn't seem to keep its shape too well in our moist and mild winter
climate.
C.b. fastigiata is very slow growing in Ray's experience. We have one
about 6 or 7 years old in the carpark border and it's only about 6'
tall now. He's also used them to train round two hoops to make a
'window' from one lawn across to another and having been planted at
4' tall, they've taken 6 years to meet in the middle. HTH.
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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk/