Taxus

It is like a sort of house of horrors, really.

We're standing here next to things like Aquilegias, Arums, Culticums, Ilex, Taxus, Buxus.

You know, they're all plants that we're familiar with, but we're perhaps not quite as familiar with some of the more horrific stories, some of the kind of ghost stories and folklore attached to them.

The Taxus, one of the folklore stories, you know, you get a lot of views growing in graveyards.

And one of the folklore stories is that they were grown in the graveyards because the twisted roots would grow through the eyes of the dead and prevent them from seeing the way to the land of the living.

So that's one of the stories that folk tell about some of the plants.

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All right, moving on, we have the yew, Y-E-W, the yew plant.

Its scientific name is Taxospicata, and other common names include common yew, English yew, European yew, and that's about it.

That's about all I could find.

It is not like the hemlock with a bajillion common names.

And how it got to America, they think it's from birds distributing it by eating it and pooping out the seeds.

Birds will actually eat the aral of the plant.

And if you've ever seen a yew plant, they have these fruit.

Not me, but yew.

Yeah, the yew, Texas.

Yew.

And then the scale leaves are going to be like the arborvitae or the camasiparas where they have that kind of coral reef type of look.

So worth calling those out.

Conifers of all shapes and sizes are fantastic.

So you can have some tall upright conifers such as Taxus varieties, like a Stagiata Aurea.

A nice focal point.

Yes, for a focal point.