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Seemm to have a yew suffering from something up to around 3 months ago it was in a big pot and was transplanted into the garden in admittedly fairly clay soil.
It was doing fine but over the last couple of weeks it has started to go yellow and some branches are brown. Any idea what may be wrong with it and what it needs. It did get a dose of lime a few weeks ago from the farmer spreading it on his meadow which blew into the garden might that be making it sick?
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I believe that yew trees don't like to get their feet wet, so it might be waterlogged in the clay.
Think I'd agree with waterbutts blackest.They can cope with pollution and all sorts of things but they like good drainage.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I was imagining Blackest in Ireland and trying to remember the Irish weather of my holidays. I don't remember any droughts.
if it's been in a pot of compost it might be struggling to make headway, (or rootway) into the clay.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Sorry Verd- agreeing with wb again!!!
Irish weather very much like Scotland's - we don't get a lot of droughts either!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
in the last month it's been raining fairly regularly (not continually) but we did get into a drought the preceeding month which did dry out the soil in places.
its called Taxus Baccata or common yew
A very diplomatic answer, if I may say so!