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Your cart is empty. An attractive pyramidal garden or patio tree with dense, upright branching and narrow, leathery foliage that takes to shearing well. A versatile, slow growing, and low maintenance evergreen. An effective accent, screen or clipped hedge. Well-suited to large containers or tubs, and for formal topiary.
This upright, evergreen oval shrub or small tree has needlelike, flat dark green leaves. Its compact, lustrous foliage has a growth habit of 15-20 feet tall. Extremely versatile, this plant is used as a screen, accent, hedge, topiary, and garden or patio tree.
This low-maintenance evergreen needs a regular water schedule to ensure the growth of a mature root system. After the mature root system is established, watering is needed occasionally, except during a drought, watering is needed regularly. Pruning is not required. Shear annually to maintain desired shape. Mulch to prevent loss of moisture, deter weeds and moderate winter temperatures.
Commonly referred to as Buddhist pine, yew podocarpus and Japanese yew, Podocarpus macrophyllus is a handsome and versatile addition to any warm weather landscape. Hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 7 through 10, this undemanding, slow-growing tree or shrub serves as a specimen, sheared hedge or espalier, and snuggles in nicely wherever an attractive, slender plant might be needed.
Where winter hardy, grow as large shrub or screen. Also effective as a specimen or lawn tree. Clip as a hedge. Foundations. Where not winter hardy, it may be grown in containers that must be overwintered in greenhouses or brightly lit corners of the home. Tolerance of low light conditions enables use as a house plant. Plants are sometimes seen growing in low light situations or under sky lights in shopping malls.
Agron Meci
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2025
Nice and healthy I like it
TechShopper
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2025
I was a little hesitant to order shrubs online but the pics and the reviews looked promising. What I received is super tiny and not at all like the pictures. The pots are 1 inch wide and 3 inches tall. The foliage is about 3 inches tall. If they were a foot tall like the pictures lead you to believe or like the other reviewers received, I could have used them. On the bright side, they seemed healthy. Now I get to return shrubs online for the first time.
Ali G
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2024
These are great. I expected small (3-6") but they are what I need to begin landscaping my new yard. They were all damp upon arrival and had fully developed roots. The packaging was somewhat over the top--I had great difficulty getting them out past all the industrialize stapling of cardboard and insulation foam glue--but I can't imagine how anything could be damaged even if drop kicked or upside down. I purchased 10-packs of three different kinds of plants and all looked very healthy. I've repotted them until spring when I can set them out in the yard. Thanks!
Jonathan
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2024
Got all of them. All alive. Very nicely packaged. They are much smaller than expected. The pictures show them bigger and more mature. I hope they grow. Just planted 20 of them and will water and mulch.Update. All but three have died. I think that if they were bigger like shown in pictures, they would have survived. I don't recommend buying them. I could get six bigger ones at my local lowes and Walmart for the price I paid on Amazon.
R Bell
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2024
They seem fine and should work. However they are not even close to the size that they advertise. 3-4 inches, not 11-12 as shown.They also came in plastic bags in clumps of 10 instead of in 2” pots as advertised.
C Hebert
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2023
I received twenty plants for a hedge I will use to hide air conditioning and utility equipment on one side of our house. They were in good condition. I planted them the following week in a prepared bed and all but one of them has taken root and started to grow. Since I only used 19 of them for the hedge, my spare replaced the plant that did not make it. They look good and healthy so far and I am pleased with them and hope that the growing season will see significant growth.
Madeline
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2023
I wasn't able to get these in the ground as quickly as I wanted because of work but I watched them carefully and made sure they didn't dry out. I finally planted them and then laid drip hoses along the hedge line for easy watering. That was a couple of months ago and lots of them have doubled in size with that light green new growth. I think a rabbit may have eaten the leaves off of three of them but I had a few left over so I can replace them if they don't leaf up again. I put the left over plants in larger pots and they're thriving too. They're my "emergency back up" in case of weed eaters and rabbits. But the weed eaters haven't gotten them because I put a little purple flag in front of each plant so they won't get mowed down. So far, so good. If I ever get a hedge, I'll take a picture.In the meantime, they're adorable and healthy looking. They had some of the worst packaging I've ever received but they came through like champs! These are tough little plants. Open them outside because, if they're packaged like mine were, there will be soil everywhere when you open the package.
Lloyd
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2018
I was nervous about buying living plants and having them shipped cross country from Florida to CA, where I live. Could they survive the trip? I needed a lot of them, as inexpensively as possible, for a new hedge. So I took a chance and bought 40 small plants. I already have one beautiful Podocarpus hedge that's 8' tall and full of lush pompom branches.The plants arrived quickly (received on Feb. 6 2018) and alive. Not a single dead or dying plant out of 40! I'd give 5 stars to this nursery but a fair amount of planting mix came loose out of the mini-pots. It wasn't a huge problem, but it was messy and some of the roots were slightly dry (but the plant was alive and viable). They're all planted and alive 6 weeks after I received them. Anyway, I a happy customer. I had my holes dug and drip irrigation ready so as soon as the plants arrived, I got them planted. And they're all still alive.
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