Name: 2025 Best Selling Creeping Japanese Plum Yew (Cephalotaxus Harringtonia 'Prostrata') - 3 Gallon Pot from North Carolina America
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Creeping Japanese Plum Yew

Cephalotaxus harringtonia ‘Prostrata’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 6a–9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Evergreen Shrub or Groundcover

Height at Maturity: 12-24″

Width at Maturity: 3-4′

Spacing: 3′ for mass plantings; 6′ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Arching, Cascading, Mounding, Pendulous Branches, Spreading/Trailing,

Growth Rate: Moderate

Flower Color: NA

Flower Size: NA

Flowering Period: NA

Flower Type: NA

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Deep Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: Fruits on female plants

Berry Color: Plum

Sun Needs: Morning Sun With Afternoon Shade, Shade or Mostly Shade, Filtered Sun

Water Needs: Average, Low when established

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sandy, Silty

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist to Dry when established

Soil pH: 5.0 – 7.0 (Acid to Slightly Acid)

Maintenance / Care: Very Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Heavy Shade, Insect

Description

One of if not our favorite of evergreen groundcover plants, the Creeping Plum Yew, Cephalotaxus harringtonia ‘Prostrata’, is an elegant plant with a spreading habit and attractive arching branches covered with glossy, flattened, very deep green needles that provides a unique texture all its own in the landscape. It will thrive in heavy shade to part shade in USDA zones 8 and 9 and we hear it will tolerate full to mostly sun in zones 6 and 7. One way or another though, we think this plant looks better in the shade, or morning sun with afternoon shade, and its unique foliage compliments all other plants in the shade garden. Excellent under large shade trees and anywhere there’s shade. Looks especially nice around boulders or cascading over walls. In case you were wondering, the word “plum” in the name comes from the purple-red fruits that are produced on female plants.

NOTE: So that those of you who are considering purchasing this plant from us will know what to expect when you receive and open the box, we took a picture of an average sized 1-gallon plant on our nursery and have posted it below. The plants we ship could be smaller or larger than the one pictured. This groundcover variety of plum yew is one that will never look as large and full growing in a container as it does in the ground. Once planted in the ground, the creeping plum yew will grow much more dense, reaching a height of 18-24 inches and a width of 3 feet or so.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing in a spreading mound to 18 to 24 inches tall and 3 to 4 feet wide, the Creeping Japanese Plum Yew is ideal for use in groupings or mass plantings in shady to partly shaded landscape borders and home foundation plantings. It is an excellent choice for an evergreen groundcover under the canopies of large trees. Looks very nice around garden ponds or in shady rock gardens near boulders. Also suitable as a solor or combined with other plants in pots, planters and other containers. A fine addition to Asian gardens, perennial shade gardens, rock gardens, tropical look gardens, wildlife gardens, and Xeriscape ardens (Low Water needs)

Spacing: 3 feet for mass plantings; 6 feet or more for space between plants

Note: For our customers who live and garden North of USDA Cold Hardiness Zone 6a, where this Plum Yew is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Growing Preferences

Creeping Plum Yew grows best in well-drained sandy soils but will adapt to any well-drained soil. Where climates are cool during summer it can be planted in full sun, but otherwise prefers some shade, preferably in the afternoon. We’ve seen no serious disease or insect problems and it is a very deer resistant plant.

Note: For helpful advice provided by our experts, click on the Planting & Care tab above on desktops and below on mobile phones.

Helpful Articles

Click on the link below to get helpful advice from our experts on how to plant, fertilize, prune and water Plum Yews.

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Plants were in great shape when they arrived. Exactly as advertised.———————————————–Thanks for the great review! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

The Plant Is Beautiful Doing Great !————————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

I don’t know if my review will “count” b/c I bought this plant from a local nursery, not from Wilson Bros, but my happy experience with other plants I’ve ordered from Wilson assures that you will get good specimens. So my review is meant to encourage other gardeners dealing with difficult conditions to consider this one! I installed a total of 11 in sloping, mostly shady areas of my deer-beleaguered, clay-soil garden, where it’s very difficult to water, and they look GREAT. Very handsome and no fuss, no muss. Only one caveat: keep them away from foot-traffic-areas where people, e.g., contractors, landscapers/arborists, kids playing ball, etc., might step on them; probably won’t kill them, but in my experience, the branches are deceptively fragile. Otherwise, this plant will solve a lot of problems…effortlessly and beautifully.————————————-We are so glad you have been pleased with your orders. Creeping yew is a great plant. Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

Received in very good condition. Packaged well. Plants look great several weeks after planting.—————————————-We are so glad you are pleased! Beth | WBG