Boxwood Stems

Place a few of these for a short hedge along your front walkway, or perhaps just one for a lovely accent at the border of your flower bed. Korean 'Wintergreen', is a broadleaf evergreen.

Baby Gem Boxwood will grow up to 2 feet in height with an equal spread. Your Baby Gem Boxwood is a wonderful little shrub with fine-textured foliage and a small stature. Use a few as edging plants, or plant one in your perennial bed for some definition.

Just imagine a row of these lining your driveway as a stately welcome to your home! Your Korean Boxwood is a compact, mounded shrub with an open habit. The 3/4-inch, ovate leaves range from a lovely light-green to medium-green shade, their dense nature...

Whatever you prefer, the Boxwood will certainly meet your expectations. Prune it into a conical shape, a boxy hedge or indulge your topiary skills to make it resemble a small giraffe.

* Evergreen * Pyramidal Growth * Consistent Green Winter Color Its small, dark-green leaves hold reliable green color much better than most pyramid boxwoods through the winter months.

* Deer resistant * Cold tolerant * Adaptive to a variety of conditions The Sprinter is quite simply an easy evergreen that will grow up to 4 feet in height with an equal spread. Plant several for a quick and low-growing hedge along your patio, or place...

It would enjoy a spot in your yard with full shade to part sun, and will even tolerate pruning should you prefer to dictate its shape in your landscape. Your Green Velvet Boxwood adds color and texture to the landscape, growing to a height of 3 feet with...

Batdorf, curator of the as-yet-uninfected boxwood collection at the National Arboretum in Washington, D.C.Initially, Symptoms of boxwood blight include dark or light brown spots onleaves, often in a circular pattern, black streaks (cankers) on stems.defoliation...

Keep reading to learn more about diseases affecting boxwoods and how to go about treating boxwood diseases.– Decline is the name given to one of the more mysterious diseases affecting boxwoods.

Currently, there are over 200 types of boxwoods with just over 140 of those available commercially and an unnamed number of cultivars. Are one of the most popular landscape shrubs available.

For more information on appropriate fertilizer for boxwood shrubs, read on.Your boxwoods may grow happily without added nutrition, depending on the soil. Have lush green leaves, but to keep your shrubs looking their best, you may need to offer them boxwood...

Water deeply, as frequent, shallow irrigation will not reach the root zone of the growing boxwood. Take time to choose where to plant boxwood carefully. Shearing, or, is the most time-consuming part of boxwood care when they are grown as a hedge, but...

Never compost them unless you are sure your plants are disease-free.Horticulturalists are testing several methods of treatment, but the current recommendation is to remove and destroy the plant by burning it or.

Have been gracing gardens since colonial times. They can range from one to two feet high to ten feet high. Members of the genusinclude about thirty species and 160 cultivars, including, the common American boxwood.

In time, you'll learn how often your boxwood shrub needs water.A layer of mulch will conserve moisture and reduce water requirements. Alternatively, allow a hose to trickle slowly at the base of the plant until the ground is thoroughly saturated.Keep...

This helps the roots to establish. The flowers develop into seed capsules by fall.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1"); });If you are wondering how to grow a Korean boxwood, remember that these boxwoods are cold...

If boxwoods prove too much work to maintain in your climate, give aa try – many are extremely cold hardy and small-leafed varieties can be clipped into formal hedges. The elegance and formality that boxwood hedges lend to a landscape is unmatched by...

Leaves turn yellow, darkening to tan as the disease progresses, often with black streaks on the petioles (small stems that join the leaves to the branch).Unlike healthy leaves that spread out, leaves affected by volutella blight remain close to the stem.

They are orange-yellow to red. While many of the unwanted pests are benign, in some cases, controlling boxwood insects is paramount to the continued health of the plant. Sprays containing bifenthrin, carbaryl, cyfluthrin, or malathion can all be used...

After about three weeks, give the stem a little tug once a week to see if it has roots. Don't use potting soil, which is rich in nutrients that can encourage rot. Stick the lower end of the cutting where the leaves were removed about two inches into the...

The tiny roundworms known as nematodes are no strangers to boxwoods. Fortunately, even though it looks horrible, it's nothing to worry about. These boxwood problems range in trouble from very easy to cure to extremely damaging.

A green ornamental throughout the year, this evergreen exhibits tiny pale green flowers in spring set against a bed of lovely dark green leaves that are oblong and glossy. Fast Growing Privacy Screen Reaching heights of 10-12 feet, with an 8-10 foot spread,...

Hansen, Smith County Horticulturist, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Interestingly this cultivar appears to have been mentioned by Liberty Hyde Bailey, although not by this name specifically, in The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture .

This plant has been moved from Ledebouria to Drimiopsis. Multiple bulbs per pot. Leaves may be occasionally lightly to heavily variegated with white. An easy and forgiving window sill or patio plant, Ledebourias are native to the forests of Eastern Africa...

There are several biological controls which are natural and non-toxic. There can be eight or more generations per season, which can add up to a lot of insects and some potentially serious damage to your plant.

There are many species and cultivars. They are excellent specimens for ornamental borders, formal hedges, container gardening and. Densely leafed, evergreen plants can be substituted for boxwood.

Needing hardly any maintenance, growing very slowly, and looking green and healthy all through winter, boxwood shrubs in containers are great for keeping some color around your house during the cold, bleak months.