Q: I have more than 50 English boxwood surrounded by pine trees, and the boxwood have done terrible this year. I was told that the pine needles give off an acid that affects English boxwood, causing ...

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According to a survey of 4,000 landscape professionals, boxwood (Buxus) is the most popular shrub in America. And yet, about a decade ago it was nearly impossible to find boxwoods at home-improvement ...

With the Christmas weekend over, you may be getting ready to toss out all the holiday greenery to make a clean start for the new year. But not all of those plants should be put in a pile by the road.

Q: I have 40+ boxwoods – well established over 25 years. Sometimes winter wind and sun “burn†hit areas of the plants, but they usually spring back with new growth. However, last growing season ...

So, English boxwood should be placed in a sheltered spot, away from sun and wind in winter and in a location that gets some shade in the growing season. The newer varieties are better suited to sunny, ...

Q: We live in South Boston on a farm. We have English boxwoods around our house and at the driveway entrance. Recently the gate to our pasture somehow opened and the cows entered our yard and damaged ...

Dwarf English boxwoods are highly susceptible to the disease, as are the American, or common, boxwoods. Cultivars of the Korean and Japanese boxwoods appear to be slightly less susceptible. None of ...

English boxwoods can be renewal-pruned by cutting them back during their dormant period in late winter, before growth begins. If you cut the entire plant back hard to mostly bare stems, it can take ...

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 are ...

My grandmother Ellen Reamer celebrated her 88th birthday last Saturday. There are quite a few things my grandmother is known for. One of them is gardening. If you ask her what her favorite plant is, ...

FOREST — Workers chopped up dozens of 150-year-old English boxwoods at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest on Tuesday, removing shrubs planted by the family that owned the historic landmark after ...