yews

• When someone suggested that the shadow from the yews was at fault, or maybe their roots were rendering the ground sterile, he didn't hesitate to have them cut down. —  EQMM,June2007
• If you don't mind the wait, yews are a traditional shrub to use, but you could also consider hollies, privet or boxwood or even the taller ornamental grasses such as many of the Miscanthus species. —  BellaOnline - The Voice of Women
• She stood on a patch of grass by a rustic seat commanding the vista of yews, and above them, a wilderness of lilacs and laburnums, in full flower. —  The Daughters of Danaus
• In the air was the scent of late flowers and the murmurs of bees; the bright eyes of blackbirds and robins peeped out from the ornamental yews, and the peacocks trailed their plumes over the sparkling emerald lawns. —  The Hand in the Dark
• Note the venerable yews, and the quaint old grave-boards in the graveyard; also the altar-tomb to Nicholas Hawksmoor, a pupil of Wren, and the architect of St. Mary Woolnoth, Lombard Street (d. at Shenley, 1736). —  Hertfordshire

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