Ivydene Gardens Hedging Gallery:
Yew Hedge Pictures.

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Yew Hedges with yearly clipping can remain in good health for over 200 years. They also do well on calcareous soils, and because of its poisonous properties to stock it is used for interior hedges like the ones above to split up the garden.

Note the A Frame way of shaping the hedge, which gives sunlight to the whole of the sunlight side and allows for rain to reach all the leaves on the outside of each side.

The entrance to the further garden area of Parnham House in Dorset on 17 May frames the pond and seating area well.

This formal type of gardening leads one's eye to the pond and seat as the focal points. Yew lends itself well to topiary work like the the 2 yew balls on either side of the entrance to the pond area.