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Hicks Yew
Taxus × media 'Hicksii'
Also called hicks hybrid yew and hicksii yew
Hicks Yew is grown for its foliage rather than flowers, giving the garden structure and color all season long.
Months here are Northern Hemisphere months; in the Southern Hemisphere, shift them by six months.
Growing Hicks Yew
Plant it in full sun. It prefers moderate water. It is hardy in USDA zones 4–7. Expect it to reach about 19 ft tall and 7.5 ft wide at maturity, in roughly 20 years (checked).
No toxicity note is on file for Hicks Yew. That is not a clearance: check its safety for people and pets before planting.
What was checked
Mature height and spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, bloom months and color and the trait tags were checked against named botanical sources for this plant, with what the sources could not settle written down; years to mature size rests on a recorded house rule where no publisher states one, and is marked so; its common name and alternate names have not been checked yet. Each fact above carries its own mark. The planting, spacing and size sections are derived from these checked facts by a fixed rule, not checked separately, and the plant type is the library's own classification.
When to plant Hicks Yew
Plant Hicks Yew in spring once the soil is workable, or by very early fall at the latest: an evergreen needs its roots down well before the ground freezes. In zone 5, the middle of its hardy zones 4 to 7, that is April to June, or August on the fall side.
Month-by-month timing for your zone is on the planting calendar; if you garden near zone 5, the middle of this plant's hardy range, start with zone 5 in April. Derived from the plant's category, zones and bloom months plus typical zone frost dates, not checked separately.
How big does Hicks Yew get?
19 fttall5 ft 7 inan adult7.5 ftwideSee Hicks Yew in a garden plan: the planner shows it in 3D beside everything else you add, growing toward this size over the years.
How far apart to plant Hicks Yew
Derived from the mature spread above by a fixed rule, not checked separately: spacing is the spread, center to center.
Space Hicks Yew about 7.5 ft apart, center to center, so each plant has room to reach its full width.
Add Hicks Yew to a garden plan and the planner draws it at its full width, so you see the spacing before you buy.
Where these facts come from
Hicks Yew's height, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, years to mature size, trait tags, soil, diseases, pests and toxicity were checked against 12 published sources on September 26, 2026. Each one is linked below with every fact it carried, which can include a fact this page still marks as not yet checked, because a source carrying a value is not the same as the value being held to the standard. Facts not in that list, and the planting, spacing and size sections, are not covered by these sources. Bloom was checked as well: Hicks Yew bears no flowers, so there is no bloom window for a source to carry.
- Missouri Botanical GardenPlant Finderheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, years to mature size, trait tags, soil, diseases and pests
- kb.jniplants.comJohnson's Nursery Knowledgebase (Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin)height, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, trait tags, diseases, pests and toxicity
- Plant Addictsheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun, water, trait tags, soil and pests
- NC State ExtensionTaxus x media, the hybrid's pageheight, hardiness zones, sun, trait tags, soil, diseases and toxicity
- waverlyfarm.comWaverly Farm (Maryland wholesale nursery), Plant of the Monthheight, spread, hardiness zones, water, soil, diseases and pests
- Chicago Botanic GardenPlant Finderheight, spread, hardiness zones, sun and toxicity
- wasconursery.comWasco Nursery (St. Charles, Illinois)height, spread, trait tags, pests and toxicity
- Oregon State UniversityLandscape Plantsheight, spread, hardiness zones and sun
- conifersociety.orgAmerican Conifer Society Conifer Databaseheight, spread and trait tags
- dotynurseries.comDoty Nurseries (Maple Park, Illinois)height, spread and sun
- RHSRoyal Horticultural Societyheight and spread
- ASPCAAnimal Poison Control, Toxic and Non-Toxic Plantstoxicity
How the checking works, and what each standard covers, is on the verified plants page.
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