If you want to make the most of your boxwood-based privacy fence, you need to follow a few planting rules to achieve success and elegance.

Most types of boxwood shrubs are cultivars of either Buxus sempervirens, also known as common or American boxwood, or Buxus microphylla, better known as Japanese boxwood. Other boxwood varieties ...

Our favorite foundation shrub by far is the Boxwood. An occasional shearing for shape is all that’s needed to keep these plants looking tidy and neat, and if you choose the right ones they’ll ...

Boxwood’s forte — other than its lack of appeal to deer — is that it provides a steadfast foil of fine texture against coarser-leafed shade plants such as azaleas, hydrangeas, hostas and ...

These guidelines, from looser pruning to regular mulching and more, need to become what Bennett Saunders, of Saunders Brothers, called “a new mind-set of the boxwood gardener.”His Virginia ...

Q: I have a few English Boxwood issues. The shrubs were transplanted from a friend's home where they grew in rows in a field, with full afternoon shade, and heavy morning sun. He wanted them gone ...

Shrubs for the Unthirsty Garden. English Boxwood: The classic evergreen hedge in English gardens, boxwood does well with little additional water in Western Washington landscapes.

Learn about blight resistant boxwood cultivars being developed in Virginia Peggy Singlemann visits Saunders Brothers in Piney River to meet with Bennett Saunders and ...

We have fifteen 35-year-old English boxwoods. Recently, stems or complete branches in the middle of the shrub have died back. We noted a number of spider webs with a distinctive entrance in the web.

PONTIAC (AP) — Officials say a fungal disease that attacks boxwood shrubs has been confirmed in suburban Detroit. The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development announced Tuesday ...