X Marks the Spot

PPhilipp Fröhlich's tempera painting from 2015, showing a yew tree.

Every day I drop off my daughter next to a yew hedge surrounding her school. It has always surprised me how common these hedges are. Granted, they are dense, slow-growing evergreens, easily cut into shape and function almost as architecture. Almost every part of the plant is poisonous. Wood, needles and the seeds that hide […]

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