It’s a good idea to rejuvenation, prune your overgrown yew shrubs because they are expensive to replace and they grow very slowly. It’s a good idea to have some evergreen in front of your house for winter interest and a beautiful neutral backdrop for other plants. So we are going to keep this new homeowners existing shrubs, but we are going to prune them back slowly over three years. Yews have latent buds on them, and that means that when sunlight hits the brown stems on the center of the plant