County Park Fire Alpine Plum Yew is a multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a mounded form. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other landscape plants with less refined foliage.
This is a relatively low maintenance shrub and can be pruned at anytime. It has no significant negative characteristics.
County Park Fire Alpine Plum Yew has attractive bluish-green evergreen foliage which emerges creamy white in spring on a dwarf conifer with a mounded habit of growth. The small needles are highly ornamental and remain bluish-green throughout the winter.
County Park Fire Alpine Plum Yew will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 3 feet. It has a low canopy. It grows at a slow rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years.
This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.