Green Mountain Boxwood Hedge
As well it clips easily into upright cones or pyramids bringing height and strength to the arrangement of your garden.
Green mountain boxwood hedge. Once established this boxwood is drought tolerant. This boxwood is an excellent choice for hedges as it can be pruned into a variety of forms. It lends an extremely fine and delicate texture to the landscape composition which can make it a great accent feature on this basis alone. The upright naturally cone shaped habit makes it an excellent candidate for topiary forms and a striking container or formal garden accent.
It is wonderful in a knot garden or as a backdrop to a perennial garden. Green mountain boxwood creates year round interest in the garden. They re equally at home as accents hedges topiaries or in containers. Green mountain boxwood is a dense multi stemmed evergreen shrub with a more or less rounded form.
This is a relatively low maintenance shrub and can be pruned at anytime. They make the perfect thick luxurious hedge but boxwoods aren t all they re cracked up to be. They adapt well to a variety of well draining soils. It looks especially nice in a mediterranean or zen garden design due to its formal shape.
They re plagued with a number of problems that can result in brown or yellowing boxwood shrubs. Please choose a rating. They re also deer resistant so their popularity has skyrocketed in recent years. These boxwood problems range in trouble from very easy to cure to extremely damaging.
Wintergreen boxwood shrub plant. Japanese boxwood buxus shrub live evergreen hedge plant with green deer resistant foliage. Boxwoods are a classic garden shrub first planted in america in the mid 1600s. Partial to full sun.
Water deeply twice weekly when newly planted to help the roots grow properly. Wintergreen boxwood live shrub plant glossy dark green foliage. Green mountain boxwood is a naturally deer resistant evergreen shrub that makes for an excellent year round hedge. The green mountain boxwood hedge grows in full sun to part shade.
Plants benefit from thinning in which you remove one third of the old. Southern living plant collection 2 5 qt. Use in mass plantings to create either a free form or a sculpted hedge. Green mountain boxwoods grow in a natural pyramidal form but you can prune the plants regularly to emphasize the shape.
Unfortunately many kinds of boxwoods are susceptible to an incurable fungal disease called boxwood blight.