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Landscaping with Boxwood
Hi, I’m Dave Epstein. This is Growing Wisdom. I'm standing in front of a Boxwood hedge and you know Boxwood have been use for literally centuries to create hedges, to create formal edges around gardens. This variety is called Newport Blue. It’s a great variety, it’s fairly wide. This is just one plant. You can see that this one plant is over four feet wide now. It’s been for about five years. I’ve kept this hedge pruned down to about three and a half feet. It would get to be about five feet, I like to separate the yard on this side from the patio on the other side using the Boxwood.
Boxwoods tend to be able to grow in part sun, they’ll take full sun. They’ll also take a good amount of shade although there are in deep shade they tend to get a little bit looser. So if you want that nice, tight look, they do need some sunshine. Boxwoods are also fairly drought tolerance, so once established you really don’t have to worry about them unless you have an extreme drought.
The other great thing of course is that they keep their color all winter long. The leaves are not going to fall off, they’ll stay nice and green and it does add an element of green in a very stark landscape during in the winter. So this particular variety of Boxwood, again, it stays fairly wide in relatively low. There are other varieties that stay even smaller, and some varieties that are more columnar like, look at Graham Blandy. We have one here in the yard and you can see just how tall this is and very columnar. So this would be great to be used around say an air conditioning van, if you wanted to keep it hidden or if you have very tight narrow space the Graham Blandy, it’s a great choice.
The other great thing about Boxwood is you can make any sort of shape you want with the hedge itself. So here, it’s a little bit of straighter hedge and then as we move along the patio, I curved it a little bit just to give a little more of an interesting look rather than just have it straight and sort of boxy.
Couple of other varieties you might want to look for, Vardar Valley is a nice low growing Boxwood. Also just the Common Boxwood is fine for hedges. Most Boxwoods are hardy to zone six or even zone five. What you want to do is be sure you check the hardiness of the particular variety you purchase. Boxwoods, lot’s of varieties and certainly lots of interest 12 months a year.
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