‘Yewtopia’ is the middle-sized plum yew — 3–4 feet each way, neither the low spreader nor the tall column — which makes it the one that fits a foundation bed without a plan for what to do in five years.

Part sun to full shade, in soil that drains. It takes our heat and humidity without the scorch a true yew suffers here, and the deer ignore it. Good massed under trees or along a shaded walk.