According to a survey of 4,000 landscape professionals, boxwood (Buxus) is the most popular shrub in America. And yet, about a decade ago it was nearly impossible to find boxwoods at home-improvement ...

Creating a backyard you can relax in, free from prying eyes of neighbors or passersby, comes down to choosing the right ...

If you are considering planting a hedge, now is a great time to get it done. This allows the shrubs to take advantage of the less stressful conditions during the cool season to get established in the ...

What: If you are looking for something flashy in a hedge or just to lighten up a shady place, look no further than Buxus sempervirens ‘Aureovariegata,’ commonly called variegated boxwood. It has ...

Box hedges are easy to grow and can be used almost anywhere in the garden for a statement display. This evergreen shrub is ideal for making neat shapes such as cones, balls and spirals, though it can ...

Fences make good neighbors and so do hedges ... as long as they are done well. Hedges are the workhorses of the suburban garden. They define space. As superstars of the backdrop, they set the mood and ...

I wrote last week about the bare root planting season, one major advantage of this is for hedge planting. Container grown hedge plants can be planted all year but usually we are talking large ...

Question. I have an eighteen-year-old boxwood hedge with sections declining. Can I prune these back about two-thirds as we have done with ligustrum and pittosporum and expect them to recover? Answer.

If an Englishman’s home is his castle, hedges are the fortifications that mark his boundaries. It may only be a foot high but is a clear delineator of where your territory starts and ends. Taller ...

My old boxwood hedge has oranges patches like this in some places. One plant is completely orange. Is this the new disease, boxwood blight? Do I prune it out now? This looks like cold damage. Let the ...