Club Yews Offering a unique appearance, yews have short, flat needles that are very dark green on their surface and a light green on their underside. The needles are arranged on the twigs in a flat plane, held opposite each other all along the stem. When new foliage emerges early in the growing season, it is bright green and soft. Yews are relatively slow growing and are equally attractive in their open, natural habit and pruned formally.
Yews are shade tolerant evergreens.
They require a well-drained soil but it can be sandy, average or light clay. Even though yews can tolerate clay soil, they are seldom planted in this situation since clay often is too wet. Yews need to be kept evenly moist. They aren't very drought tolerant. When they get in trouble, it is almost always due to soil that is too wet.