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If you have a garden that is not also used by young children; English Yew!
Grows strongly when young, can be clipped and kept as an evergreen hedge.
(All parts/sap are toxic.
If brave you can eat the sticky pink flesh of the fruit,
but,
do not ingest the seed).
mespilus
wildwest
Got a quite a bit of box hedging around the area..most have know been obliterated by the Asian caterpillar.
I'm finally giving up and digging them out. But need an alternative. Anyone got any ideas? Definately not keen of pesticides or chemicals.
Sad day...they did look nice when freshly trimmed. Even experts are saying this could be the end of box hedging for now.