Learn how to grow and use Japanese yew in your garden or as a house plant.

But many of the plants, especially the Japanese yews, have withered and died.

The oldest tree in the region is a millennium-old Japanese yew.

One of their favorite foods is the Japanese yew, used in foundation plantings around suburban homes.

Chance had once brought to that Californian shore the seeds of the Japanese yew.

English yews, Japanese yews and a multitude of hybrids grow all through the neighborhood.

Any city gardener longing for a maintenance-free plant might take notice here: the Japanese yew is ideal for terraces.

The formally landscaped terrace is surrounded by Japanese yew, Chinese juniper, and dwarf hemlock.

Mr. Pennock also tends to his 15-foot-tall Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata).

Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata)

Clipped hedges of Japanese yew and Pfitzer juniper line the tree shaded foot paths that meander about the grounds.

Other popular Christmas foliage, including holly leaves and berries, mistletoe berries, boxwood and Japanese yew, are also toxic to animals.

The prefecture also has two plants (the milk vetch and the Japanese yew) and two animals (the snow grouse and the ayu) as symbols.

The forest is homes to 50 species of trees, but Yagishiri Island is noted for its unspoiled stands of Taxus cuspidata, the Japanese Yew.

Many of the trees in the Hill-and-Pond Garden, like Japanese white and black pines, Japanese yew and Japanese maples, are exhibited here in miniature.

(Something about its glossy dense foliage, its ability to grow in shade, how it would be a nice alternative to the Japanese yew, but how most nurseries don't sell it.

Japanese Yew Japanese yew is one of the only conifers that is shade tolerant, and it produces vibrant berries that please the eye.

Over 400 cultivars of yews have been named, the vast majority of these being derived from Taxus baccata (European yew) or Taxus cuspidata (Japanese yew).

Mr. Fieman's selection, a hedge composed of the low-growing Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata "Densa"), provides the neat, year-round backdrop that he said would not "compete with the sculptures."

Taxus cuspidata (Japanese Yew or Spreading Yew) is a member of the genus Taxus, native to Japan, Korea, northeast China and the extreme southeast of Russia.

From 17th to 32d Streets, cracked, deteriorating and weed-filled planters were replaced with ones containing cone-shaped Japanese yews, smaller English yews, stripling European hornbeams, ivy and thousands of flowering bulbs.

One recent Saturday, a blues band played by the lily pool (whose lilies had thrived in all that dirty flood water) and artists sold their work beneath a tent set up by newly planted Japanese yews.

Usually made of woods like Japanese yew, holly, cherry, sakaki or Japanese cedar, the shaku is often seen in portraits of shoguns and noblemen but is now used mostly by Shinto priests (the kannushi).

Varied Works The Roof Garden, a $2 million exhibition space that is paved with white flagstone tiles and surrounded by planters filled with Japanese yews, will be open from May 1 to Nov. 1, weather permitting.

The sunken garden is the first of four main rooms; the rectangular pool at its center that houses hardy and tropical water lilies is flanked by twin panels of lawn and two two olive trees, within the hedge of clipped Japanese yew.

Dwarf English spreading yews form a green border.

The Motte is surmounted by five ancient and spreading yew trees in the form of a cross.

In various stages of breathlessness, the girls were grouped around Sara, who was crouched beside a spreading yew.

Upright yews will turn to spreading ones; spreading yews will bend to the ground.

He'd fallen to his knees, partly hidden from Ryan, Krysty and Rick by a spreading yew tree.

They're just shadows, ghosts who dance under the shade of the spreading yew trees which border the far end of the lawn in front of my manor house.

Taxus cuspidata (Japanese Yew or Spreading Yew) is a member of the genus Taxus, native to Japan, Korea, northeast China and the extreme southeast of Russia.

Down on the Pine Lawn, which overlooks the highway and the river, sumptuous Himalayan pines, with long bluish needles, share the space with white pines and a spreading yew with low arching branches that graze the ground and seem to invite visitors inside.

Their yews are a special variety (Taxus cuspidata Capitata) that grow in an almost perfect cone shape.

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Mr. Pennock also tends to his 15-foot-tall Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata).

Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata)