Dwarf boxwood bonsai trees are an excellent choice for bonsai enthusiasts who are looking for a small, easy-to-care-for tree that can be shaped into various styles. Here are some tips for growing ...

A small group of potted dwarf boxwood shrubs can lend an element of formality to a garden. Leaving the boxwood shaggier, studies have shown, helps to reduce blight.

The boxwood is valued for its evergreen steadfastness, but we are at that one lovely moment in the year when the monarch of shrubs transforms itself with new growth. This is produced between late ...

Q: I'm about to trim my dwarf boxwoods out front. Some articles I've read say to make sure that the top of the boxwood is narrower than the bottom to ensure sunlight penetrates the whole shrub ...

Then boxwood blight, a fungal disease that originated in Europe, made its way to the United States in 2011. Bennett Saunders, the general manager of Saunders Genetics, which specializes in boxwood ...

Dwarf boxwood (B. sempervirens `Suffruticosa') is commonly used as a low-growing frame for vegetable, herb and knot gardens. For all its virtues, boxwood is strangely underused in Northwest gardens.

There is a true dwarf boxwood called Buxus sepervirens 'Suffruticosa', but if you don't do Latin, it will answer to its common name, "true dwarf boxwood," when you look for it at the nursery.

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Photo: Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons One of the diminutive dwarf boxwood varieties, compact Korean boxwood is small enough to be grown as a bonsai or container shrub.

Replacing a mass planting of boxwoods gives you the opportunity to diversify your landscape and try native or underused plants.