((From left to right) Martin Hughes-Jones / Alamy Stock Photo – Gavin Zeigler / Alamy Stock Photo – RossHelen editorial / Alamy Stock Photo) Planted at the front of your plot, a hedge can create a ...

Podocarpus, a.k.a. Japanese yew, is a good evergreen for North Texas that is not used very often. Question: Could you please identify this tree? The picture was taken in Dallas. D.G., Dallas Answer: ...

Q: I want to make a hedge using dwarf yew pine (Podocarpus macrophyllus “maki”) in a planter box. Will that work for three or four plants? What size do you recommend for at least three to four plants ...

Sometimes called Southern yew, Podocarpus macrophyllus is a Japanese, evergreen species that can grow over 50 feet tall but is generally used for hedges and screens. Suitable for sun or shade.

The podocarpus is an evergreen tree that eventually can reach 50 feet in height. This rarely happens because this plant takes happily to shaping and shearing. It is one of the best trees for topiary, ...

Podocarpus macrophyllus, sometimes called Japanese yew but known simply as podocarpus in Florida, is an extremely popular plant for screens and hedges. That's a bit strange because this East Asian ...

All podocarpus plants are members of the Podocarpaceae family. All are evergreen conifers that grow in tropical or subtropical locations. Though the different species are similar in appearance, their ...

I talk a lot in these columns and in my gardening classes about landscape plants that have various elements of aesthetic interest and about plants that are weird, unusual or uniquely noteworthy. It ...

Q: I have a 25-year-old podocarpus on the north side of the house. It gets morning sun and afternoon shade. Every spring I apply chelated iron, but the last few years it hasn’t seemed to help much.