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, in the churchyard at Fortinghall, Perthshire, is estimated to be around 2000 years old, making it one of the oldest trees in Europe.Yew makes a fine hedge, which is how I plan to use my plants. It grows well on old wood, so you can keep your hedge in shape

Watch Monty Don's video demonstration of how to plant a yew hedge, with advice on drainage, planting distances and mulching.spring or autumnMore advice on plantingPlanting a bare-root rosePlanting a shrubBare-root plantingPlanting a bare-root tree

elsewhere for your hedging material. The RHS has a good list of hedging plants.If you still insist on growing leylandii then this is always an option, but please, please, please don't grow a variety called 'Harlequin', whose foliage looks like the aftermath

. The rule I have set myself is that it cannot be anything that I grow either in my garden or in any of my clients' gardens. These are all plants I have met briefly, but with whom I have yet to become intimately acquainted.Chelonopsis moschata - a fabulous