Buxus Species, Common Boxwood, American Boxwood

I've never seen the straight species. It comes from southern Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa; it is not American. I've seen the...Read More wonderful 'Vardar Valley' cultivar at Tyler Arboretum in se PA, that is a more compact plant. The mother species has been crossed a lot with the more cold hardy Korean Boxwood to grow farther north and to have the slightly prettier foliage of the Common species.

Buxus sempervirens grown fine for me in a protected spot - eastern exposure & protected by the house to the west. It will never grow as ...Read Moretall here in Zone 5a as it does in GA but it is beautiful. Deer don't touch it! Also strikes easily from cuttings. Does best in semi-shade.

Location, central GA. The boxwoods at the house we just bought were fairly large..several feet around with apparently very little care f...Read Moreor a long time. As they are adjacent to a porch the 'seller' had them topped last spring, and they are just now greening up. I have had to cut them way back in front, as they nearly covered the sidewalk. We have been here a month..they are already showing new leaves. I am still pruning to uncover the sidewalk. These are apparently very hardy in this area of GA..just south of Macon. They have rooted all around the bottom where the branches lay on the ground, and I am going to transplant these to another area. Will let you know how this works out!

This slow growing evergreen is most commonly found as clipped hedging in formal gardens. Slow growing, it can reach height and width of ...Read More15 feet or more, but is rarely allowed to grow that tall or wide.