A team of gardeners prepare the world's oldest topiary garden, at Levens Hall, in 2023. The garden, comprising of ancient box and yew trees, was established in 1694. (Credit: OLI SCARFF) The ...

Neil Campbell, owner Nunny's Farm, with a Christmas tree branch in his left hand and a yew tree branch in his right Several animals have died at a north east Lincolnshire petting farm after being ...

For almost two centuries, a sprawling English yew tree sheltered the grave of Edgar Allan Poe's mother at historic St. John's Church on Church Hill. Then in 2007, the tree was cut down by the city, ...

A majestic yew tree believed to be the better part of a thousand years old rises from a churchyard, casting its long shadow over worn and tumbled graves. The gnarled and hollow ancient yew in the ...

Yew trees were once widespread throughout Ireland. Irish names for Yew include Iúr and Eó. Mayo is anglicised from ‘Maigh Eó’ which translates as ‘The Plain of the Yew’; Terenure comes from ‘Tír an ...

The yew tree in the Fortingall Churchyard in Perthshire, Scotland, was there long before there was a church, or even the practice of Christianity. The yew is believed to be anywhere from 3,000 to ...