Mid-Back-Yard Diagonal Hicks Yews - November 2024

In the Fall of 2021, I was on a "Hicks Yew High" - where I planted these tiny shade-loving evergreen shrubs all over the backyard.  I put six of them in the south bed with designs to 'replicate' the undulating hedge from the back border.  Here are the six in winter when the contrast with the snow shows how small they really were in January of 2022. 

In Summer of 2022, I did a 'garden edit' where I pulled out some Lilacs and replaced them with some Green Giant Thujas.  At at that time, I also relocated three of the Hicks Yews.  

Three remained.  Set on sort-of 'an angle'.  

I set up my wine barrel 'water feature' next to them.  And, haven't thought about them much at all.  (that is the wine barrel that I've turned over for the winter in the photo...)

Have they grown?  Yep.  The photo at the top shows their current state.  I'm hoping that - with time - the gaps will close and a small 'hedge' of sorts appears here. 

This is part of the Yew update series of posts that are documenting the various shrubs in our yard.  I've posted about the Brown's Yew, the hedge of small Hicks Yews (for an undulating hedge) in the far backyard, the Hicks Yews that I planted *behind* the Oakleaf Hydrangeas in the 'kitchen curved bed', just a few days ago I shared an update showing the growth on the pair of Hicks Yews that I planted for a 'Block I' topiary in the understory garden, I posted a photo showing the pair of Hicks Yews on either side of the entrance to our firepit and most-recently, I posted a photo showing the pair of Hicks Yews along the fence - behind the firepit border.