How to Prune Yews - Instructional Video w/ Plant Amnesty 

Yews look amazing in the wintertime with plops of snow on them. Looks just like a Christmas card!

I laughed and loved it, no sugar coatings.I'm done.

thank you for the video. what variety is featured in the video?

Thanks for this, very helpful.

can you describe how to prune columnar Yews? Mine have spayed out .

Hello! I inherited some very overgrown Yews that are located in the front of a home I bought. I'd REALLY like to take a hedger to it and cut it back and also raise the canopy of it (some have grown quite close to the ground!) but it appears that the previous owner attempted to cut one of the bushes back and what's left are twigs! Lot's and lots of twigs that will not (have not) regrown green Yew foliage! I notice that if I part the Yew's, the foliage is only a few inches into the plant and then naked limbs are attached. So to me, that give me the indication that I'm stuck with overgrown bushes or twigs should I decide to cut it back (and a few have grown slightly into the walkway which grazes people as they walk towards the front door! Not good!) So, am I doomed? Can these bushes not be cut back without leaving leafless limbs/twigs? And as for raising the canopy of the hedge, is that even possible? I can't even SEE the limb structure!

Fantastic advice.

Brilliant....make videos on everything!!! 💪🏼

Sending this to my aunt ASAP!

Just what I needed to know. I haven't trimmed mine in a while and they have grown out a bit. So I just trimmed them back. The front looks ugly without it being lush and green but hopefully it won't take long to green out. At least by next spring. I always worry about trimming a bush and it never grows back. Fingers crossed.🤞😊

Plant Amnesty: You can take a chainsaw to it. Lmbo

Tell us something about period of pruning.

Hello, I have just cut a lot of the yews we have in front of our home and it looks deformed! It was the first time I have ever cut it and I didn't know how much I should have cut! so I cut maybe around 5' and I clearly messed up unfortunately!!! My question is if there are any ways to make it grow faster so that it blends with the other ones ASAP! Please msg me back and if you need pictures I can maybe send it to you via email. Thank you :)

So helpful thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great start for me. I have 1 Yew in my front area and it looks like the gardener just shaves it once in a while. I have no idea what to do with it since it is placed in an area (maybe 10 x 12) with two standard hydrangea plants, a hardy hydrangea and a climbing rose...all a few years old. I see no balance in the space but i think the neighborhood would come after me if i removed any of them. Looking for all suggestions to be able to visualize. Thanks!

Yews are great...... That's it! 😂😂😂😂😂

It would be really helpful if you could provide a text version of this presentation for those who are deaf or hard of hearing . . . .

I swear you sound like Aretha Franklin's speaking voice! Are you from Detroit?

I just identified Canada yews through a plant app. It mentioned that they are dangerous? Any thoughts on this?

I have the same hand pruners

Probably a good idea to mention they are poisonous

this seems like it would take for eva to to prune all those bushes

Help!! Why are my cone shaped yew needles turning yellow on the inside and falling off?!!😬

Hey! You sound like Jim Carrey aka "The JuiceWeasel"

uh-oh, wish I had seen this before I took the chain saw to the 4 overgrown monsters I had in my front yard.

yews

Not only indestructible but some species are very toxic to the touch.

I didn't plant the dang things, I dont have any attachment to them, hedge trimmer all day long. I don't want to spend that much time with it.

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