Word reaches us about a glitch with the landscaping plans for the new Coleridge school extension in Crouch End. If you’re not familiar, it’s the building rapidly going up at the bottom of Hornsey Lane, on the right as you come down from Highgate.
The landscape garden company tasked with drawing up the proposals for a long hedge around the site has proposed one of Taxus. Not a comment on the Labour council’s high charges, but a commonly used plant for hedging.
This proposal was being strongly supported by the education department, who were looking for a new hedge. Apparently, they had just had removed some yew from the site, the notorious berries of which are poisonous, and might harm a child. A couple of weeks ago, a yew was felled here for this very reason.
And the vernacular name for Taxus is?
Can't yew guess?
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