Daily Home Renovation Tips

We are writing a comprehensive series of articles on the makeover of our front garden.

Today we wanted to take a break and focus on how the Pyramidal Yews look in the fall.

Above is the garden plan we have shown before that we are using to guide us in making over our front garden. As you can see, the plan calls for numerous Pyramidal Yews, identified by the letter ‘D’ that are highlighted in yellow. Yes, lots of them.

We really like them. Above is a picture of the Yews planted at part of the early garden make over.

Above is a closeup of three of them just after they were planted near the opening of the garage door.

Now, why the difference in the fall? Well, most of you likely know, but we didn’t, that Pyramidal Yews produce bright red berries in the fall.

I recall reading about this but I was really surprised on the brightness and number of these red berries.

 Look closely at the picture above? Do you see any? No? What about now?

 The picture above is a close up of the previous one. Now, both of the above were taken the beginning of September. This next picture was taken about a week later.

Notice that the red berries are a little more visible. And what might not be visible in the above picture are the large number of berries on the tree that are still green that have not yet turn red.

I can’t wait until all of the Yews’ berries are bright red. It certainly adds nice colour to a mostly green garden. Something that I never appreciated in this evergreen but am certainly glad so see.