Spreading Yew

Enhance Your Landscape with the Hardy Cephalotaxus Spreading Yew Shrub

Cephalotaxus Spreading Yew is an Easy to Grow Evergreen Groundcover With Unique Foliage. Perfect for Shady Areas in Your Landscape

The Cephalotaxus Spreading Yew is a versatile evergreen shrub, prized for its lush, needle-like foliage and ability to thrive in shade, making it a favorite for low-maintenance landscaping and year-round curb appeal.

If you’ve been struggling to fill those tight spaces in your landscape with an evergreen shrub that’s shade-loving, the Cephalotaxus Spreading Yew Shrub is the answer. It’s an excellent landscaping plant for homeowners who want reliable, easy-care greenery.

Cephalotaxus harringtonia ‘Prostrata’ is a slow-growing, soft-needled evergreen shrub that grows well in the shade. The spreading plum yew (as it is sometimes called) has long, dark green needles that stay green year-round.

This makes the Japanese Spreading Yew attractive for basic foundation plantings or mass plantings. It can also do well planted around hedges or screens as a groundcover. The dense spreading yew grows upright branches which can add texture to the landscape because of the spirally arranged foliage.

It is commonly referred to as the spreading Southern Yew plant, and this versatile green bush is rarely bothered by insects and disease. Once it’s established it is drought tolerant, deer resistant, salt tolerant, and is excellent for filling under large trees and other shady areas. It is great for residential landscaping and tolerates shearing to maintain the desired size and shape.

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When you buy the Cephalotaxus Spreading Yew online from Perfect Plants Nursery, you are buying directly from the grower. We have been a family-run farm since 1985.

As experts in hardy evergreen shrubs, we deliver healthy, high-quality plants from our farm to your door. This means they arrive ready to plant and ready to thrive in your landscape.

Spreading Yew Care Guide

Japanese Yew grows best in the southern United States in USDA growing zones 6–9. It cannot withstand winter temperatures for too long. The dense spreading shrub can grow up to 2–3 feet tall and 3–4 feet wide with shallow root systems.

It can handle full shade to part shade and is an excellent choice for planting under a large shade tree. Although the dark green foliage cannot handle full sun and it may cause browning of the leaves, this Southern yew plant is very heat tolerant in many places around North America.

Plant the spreading Japanese plum yew in well-drained soil conditions in early spring so those deep green-colored needles have the whole growing season to establish. Well-drained soil helps prevent root rot. It makes an excellent groundcover plant as its name suggests, the yew Taxus will spread to the area it is planted in!

The yew tree’s needle-like foliage will make great-looking landscape plants, and the slow-growth habit will keep your yard looking fresh all year long. It is a wonderful choice for winter color as it has slight cold hardiness and maintains its shiny dark green color year-round.

Why Buy From Perfect Plants?

For over 45 years, Perfect Plants Nursery has been delivering quality plants to growers across the country. Unlike many other online “nurseries,” we grow our plants right here on the property from cutting to your front door. When you purchase a live plant online from us, you're getting decades of gardening experience in every box and a proven landscape shrub backed by our growing expertise.

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