A single, field-grown English yew (Taxus baccata), clipped over many years by specialist family growers in Europe into a sculptural form — a ring, a dome, a spiral, a cloud tree, a tiered pagoda or a pyramid — from 0.7m to 3.6m tall. Each one is unique: the exact plant in its photographs, quantity one, and when it's sold, it's gone. It comes as a field-grown rootball wrapped in hessian and wire, is price on application, and is delivered by HIAB crane lorry, quoted with the price to your postcode.

Ten. A ring (Halo, 0.7m) and a dome (Otto, 0.95m); a parasol or a mushroom on a clipped block (Linden 1.6m, Rupert 1.9m); cloud trees in the niwaki style (Hiro 1.65m, Mabel and Tamsin 2.65m); spirals (Wilder's spiral cone 1.65m, Florian's spiral pagoda 2.5m, Corin's spiral standard 3m); spirals with a mushroom crown (Bastian 1.75m, Severin 2m); multi-stem mushrooms (Hollis 1.85m, Russet 2.25m); a lollipop dome (Pip, 1.95m); tiered clouds, pagodas and mushrooms (Ambrose 2.4m, Cosimo 2.45m, Isolde 2.55m, Ottilie 2.65m, Edmund 2.9m, Augustus 3.6m); and a pyramid (Gideon, 2.95m). The forms rail above shows one of each.

From 0.7m to 3.6m. Sizes are given as height × width, which matters with sculptural forms: Halo, the ring, is 0.7m × 1.7m, far wider than tall, while Corin, the spiral standard, is 3m × 1m. Most pieces stand between 1.6m and 2.65m; the tallest are Gideon (2.95m), Corin (3m) and Augustus (3.6m). Each rootball is measured before dispatch, so you know how big a hole to dig before it arrives.

For a courtyard you look down on, a low, wide piece: Halo, the 0.7m ring, or Otto, the 0.95m dome. For an entrance or the end of a path, an upright, contained shape that marks the way without blocking it: Wilder's spiral cone, Pip's lollipop dome, Severin, Gideon's pyramid or Corin's spiral standard. For a grand courtyard or the centre of a large garden, the tiered and cloud pieces over 2.5m: Isolde, Ottilie, Mabel, Tamsin, Edmund and Augustus. The placement and height filters in the collection above sort every piece for you.

Because each specimen is one plant, and when it's sold, it's gone. Sold pieces stay in the collection, marked Sold and listed after the available ones, and each keeps its page, with links to specimens that are still available. Any piece that shows Price on application is open for enquiry.

Very hardy. English yew is hardy to −20°C, and a specimen planted in the ground rides out a typical UK winter. Winter is in fact when specimens move: rootball season runs from November to March, while the plant is dormant, so pieces are delivered and planted in the colder months. Avoid planting on days when the ground is frozen hard or waterlogged.

Once a year, in late May, whatever the form — ring, spiral, cloud tree or tiered pagoda. Clip following the lines already there. A missed clip can wait until June or July, but never clip after mid-August: late growth won't harden before the frosts. The pruning & trimming guide has the method in full.

Lifetime Care. Send a photograph whenever something puzzles you, and grower answers come back within 24 hours — forever, free. It comes with every specimen. The first 18–24 months matter most: consistent watering while the roots establish, a mulch 5cm deep kept 10cm clear of the stems, and one spring feed a year, the first no sooner than six to eight weeks after planting.