Yew was also the prized wood for lute making. By the 17th century, no yew is mentioned in European forestry records. Modern Yews Although there are two yews native to North America, most yews used in landscaping in the U. The leaves and bark of yew are used medicinally as a source of the chemotherapy drug paclitaxel for breast, ovarian, and lung cancer.
Yew was known in medieval times as a cardiac remedy; from it was derived the first calcium channel blocker, not in the medical mainstream until the s. Pin Oak.
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Make your home a perfect place to relax, spend time with family and commune with nature. What happens now is that they are used as repositories for rubbish. Fry has found stowed in ancient yews the remains of an old oil tank, lawn mowers, bags of cement, breeze blocks and piles of grass cuttings.
These smaller slights against ancient yews are revealed on a tour of the ancient yews of Shropshire with Rob McBride, a campaigner who scours the country identifying ancient trees. The boot of his old Audi contains an axe, a tape measure for recording tree girths and numerous maps.
A magnificent yew in the churchyard at Uppington has a hollow inside containing a garden rake and lawnmower grass box. It has ivy growing up it, as do the ancient yews in Kenley churchyard. At both locations, he points to stumps where branches have been cut.
There is this mentality of tidiness and keeping nature in check. McBride is astonished that there is no legal protection for ancient yews. So how can people just cut bits off ancient yews? Fry is heartened by the success of her petition but believes any moves to translate it into government legislation are being scuppered by lobbying from the church.
The church has always considered such moves an unnecessary challenge to its authority and jurisdiction over its own property. The C of E is wary of adding to the legislative burden its church managers already face. And it points to the vast majority of ancient yews being found in churchyards as proof that church folk have been excellent tree guardians over the ages. Many yew trees were in place before churches were even built — they are an important part of our national heritage.
Alex Glanville of the Church in Wales strikes a more emollient note. The Church in Wales has introduced a new requirement for churches with ancient yews to seek advice from ancient tree specialists before undertaking any tree surgery; the church provides funding for that specialist advice.
In the winter we may start to get a little depressed by all of the drab colors outside. When planning a landscape or planting a new plant, consider using plants that have interest all year long. In the winter we typically look to evergreen trees and shrubs to add a little green to an otherwise brown or white landscape. A good choice for an evergreen shrub is a yew.
Close up of yew branchAnglojap or Anglo-Japanese yew Taxus x media is a great evergreen shrub. This hybrid shrub, a cross of two other yews, has characteristics from both parent yews, making it a very desirable landscape plant. All yews have the same flat needles that are dark green, with a lighter green on the underside of the needle. Female yews have a reddish-pink colored fruit, called an aril.
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