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says...
I have a Yew tree at the end of my garden (lots of birds eating the
berries, could they be fieldfare's..sort of like a thrush but agang of
them?) anyway it's about 35ft tall, nice and bushy. But the branches
go all the way down the trunk and touch the floor. Some birds kept
getting caught by something (hawk) going by the way the feathers and
doiwn is spread. Never seen a Yet tree with branches to the ground
anyway and I'd like to trim them up about five foot up the trunk from
the ground. Question is does the tree grow from the top upwards, in
which case my five foot gap will always be there, or does it grow from
the ground up, so eventually my five foot gap will end up 50ft in the
air, if you get what I mean?

thanks

Not completely sure I have understood! but yew regrows from old wood so
where ever you cut it it will sprout new growth from the cut ends so to
keep your skirts lifted you will have to recut from time to time.
There are two main types of Yew, Irish which has multi stems and English
which tends to form a main trunk
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea