Tall and skinny Taxus 'Bean Pole' or ??

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UUallace Cincinnati, OH Jun 16, 2006

Need a tall skinny yew. Could also use something tall and skinny with small leaves. My Forest Farm order came with 'Bean Pole' "sold out". Roslyn is kaput. Herronswood is merging. Other sources have only BP that I am interested in. Hate to pay shipping on a single plant.

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escambiaguy Atmore, AL(Zone 8b) Jun 16, 2006

"Sky Pencil" holly comes to my mind, but it may not be tall enough.

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UUallace Cincinnati, OH Jun 17, 2006

Sky Pencil would work, but the only place local wants $91.95 and its too big. I had 4 mismatched yews so I cut them in a spiral, now I need a center.

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escambiaguy Atmore, AL(Zone 8b) Jun 17, 2006

A local Marvin's home center had some last year that were in one gallon containers for about $10.00 . I should have bought a couple because they don't have any this year.

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Ivy1 Mystic, CT(Zone 6b) Jun 17, 2006

I kept looking for Hicksii Yew after getting two a few years back (I wanted to do a deer test). Home Depot sometimes carries them, but too pricy for me at 25.00 a piece, since I needed 7. I found Sky Pencil at a small Nursery here for 20.00. I may replace my yews with Sky Pencils and bring the 2 yews out front for topiary.

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UUallace Cincinnati, OH Jun 17, 2006

If my memory is working, The Forest Farm price was $9. I think Sky Pencil is an offspring of Hicksii. I have 1 female and 3 males planted in a square. The female was much smaller. I trimmed them in a spiral, and need a center

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StarhillForest Illinois, IL(Zone 5b) Jun 17, 2006

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I have 1 female and 3 males planted in a square.

Something's very wrong here (and I don't mean just the square planting pattern and spiral topiary!) -- how can you have both genders of a cloned cultivar of a dioeceous plant?

Guy S.

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UUallace Cincinnati, OH Jun 18, 2006

They are two different cultivars. I suspect someone may have planted four of the same and lost one, replacing it with a different cultivar.
In dioeceous the males are chosen for their resemblance to the female, but are never identical.

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StarhillForest Illinois, IL(Zone 5b) Jun 18, 2006

Sorry, I understood you to say you had four Sky Pencil and one of them was female! You also said Sky Pencil is an offspring of Hicksii, so now I don't know whether it's a holly as Escambia said or a yew . . . must be getting too late for my feeble old brain. See y'all tomorrow!
Guy S.

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escambiaguy Atmore, AL(Zone 8b) Jun 18, 2006

It's definitely a holly - Ilex Crenata

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StarhillForest Illinois, IL(Zone 5b) Jun 18, 2006

Yeah, that's what I thought, but I didn't know for sure.
Nite all!

Guy S.

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UUallace Cincinnati, OH Jun 18, 2006

Sky pencil is a Japanese Holly (Ilex crenata). Japanese are not what most people think a Holly is supposed to do. It has very small leaves and is the same shape as Taxus bean pole. The center does not need to match, the others. It has to have small leaves and be very skinny.

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