The box tree moth is a non-native, invasive insect that has the potential to cause major damage to one of the most popular ...

Invasive pests, fungal diseases and a lack of appeal to birds and pollinators have me bidding bye-bye to the shrub I once coveted.

While most pruning work is done in the dormant season, these plants rely on a mid-summer trim to keep them healthy and ensure they perform well next year.

English boxwood or Suffruticosa has been around forever. When I was in high school, I loaded thousands and thousands of those plants on trucks to deliver from our nursery.

Southern Ontario has been identified as an epicentre of the deadly box tree moth – deadly to boxwood shrubs, that is Southern Ontario has been invaded by a monster from Japan. Okay, it’s not quite ...