walshie Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 Saw this earlier. Is it a tiny yew tree, Christmas tree or something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardo Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 looks like yew to me on a related note, this is a great app for tree info/id - you can just select characteristics from a list and it will narrow down the search https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/tree-id-british-tree-identification/id330025326?mt=8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loriusgarrulus Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 Looks like yew to me too. There was a lot like that in a woodland we went to look at recently in among the spruce. The nearest yew we spotted was in a churchyard a mile or two away, so we think the berries must have been eaten by birds and the seeds from them deposited in the wood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie&bezza Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 Yep yew. Typical in graveyards and don't eat the berries! Also the wood was used to make longbows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old'un Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 Looks like yew to me too, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loriusgarrulus Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 Makes nice furniture in lovely mellow golden yellow too. Turns well too, but no good for wooden food bowls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walshie Posted January 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 Looks like yew to me too. There was a lot like that in a woodland we went to look at recently in among the spruce. The nearest yew we spotted was in a churchyard a mile or two away, so we think the berries must have been eaten by birds and the seeds from them deposited in the wood. That would explain it. We don't have any others round here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardo Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 don't eat the berries! that's not strictly true - the berries themselves are really rather lovely, but the pip is deadly. still not worth the risk unless you're in a survival situation though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie&bezza Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 that's not strictly true - the berries themselves are really rather lovely, but the pip is deadly. still not worth the risk unless you're in a survival situation though. Didn't know that and I must say they do look nice to eat but still give it a miss I think! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconFN Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 that's not strictly true - the berries themselves are really rather lovely, but the pip is deadly. still not worth the risk unless you're in a survival situation though. They are very nice, slightly gloopy but they taste just like sweets. I've happily eaten loads by sucking the flesh off the seed, but as you say every part of a yew is poisonous except the aril. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 Taxus baccata for definite but unless the photo was taken with a flash it may be a cultivar as the leaves look a little more silvery than normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felly100 Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 I used to cut the hedges at a large estate in Derbyshire. A company used to collect the yew clippings to take to a cancer drug manufacturer. It was a right ball ache trying to keep it all unadulterated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_seagrave Posted January 23, 2016 Report Share Posted January 23, 2016 I have got a real soft spot for self-seeded trees. A tiny oak, beech or yew is a thing of incalculable beauty. In a previous house there were tiny hollies all over the garden. It broke my heart to have to dig most of them up, but I potted up a few of them, and put one in an enormous pot by the front door. I keep meaning to drive past and see if it's still there. What a soppy old *** I am! LS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walshie Posted January 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2016 I have got a real soft spot for self-seeded trees. A tiny oak, beech or yew is a thing of incalculable beauty. In a previous house there were tiny hollies all over the garden. It broke my heart to have to dig most of them up, but I potted up a few of them, and put one in an enormous pot by the front door. I keep meaning to drive past and see if it's still there. What a soppy old *** I am! LS This one is slap bang in the middle of a footpath, so I'm going to have to dig it up. I'll probably move it to somewhere it won't ever need to be moved again. Once I've read on up on what time of year is best to do such things, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felly100 Posted January 23, 2016 Report Share Posted January 23, 2016 With it being that size, a bucket of water on it so the soil holds,a big shovel and it won't know it's been moved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRobin Posted January 23, 2016 Report Share Posted January 23, 2016 As Felly says.. Bucket of water if ground ISN'T saturated already which I doubt. Should give a nice root ball. Im guessing the soil falls of as is a self setter,dont stress. Plant in pot with mixture of 75% soil 25% compost. Don't over firm , just nough to remove air from soil/planting. Don't water at all. Not even a trickle. It will freeze and kill sapling. I've grown lots of native bare rooted plants this time of year for a shoot I beat on . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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