The instant troughs provide you with a ready made hedge which only requires being transplanted into the ground and lightly pruned occassionally. Yew is particularly popular to use as a formal hedging plant as it creates a very dense and neat evergreen hedge. Red berries will appear in the autumn months. One downside to Yew is that it is not advised to plant in a field where livestock can access, as Yew is harmful to almost all livestock animals. Yew does not grow well in any wet soil.