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 ...

In your case, the dwarf boxwoods are small enough that they'll get decent enough light in a small globe. They'll get light most of the way around, except in cases where there's a wall behind.

Q: I would like a tidy, low evergreen hedge to put alongside my front walkway. I am considering the boxwood as I like the thick, green look very much. Can boxwood be kept to less than 1 foot tall ...

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.

These guidelines, from looser pruning to regular mulching and more, need to become what Bennett Saunders, of Saunders Brothers, called “a new mind-set of the boxwood gardener.”His Virginia ...

Another great dwarf boxwood is named Franklins Gem, similar in its light green hue and extremely fine texture, but a little taller and wider, getting to three feet across.

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 ...

A dwarf cultivar of Yaupon holly at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. ... 2025 at 8:00 AM EDT. Q: I’m taking out a boxwood hedge due to recurring insect and disease issues.

According to the American Boxwood Society, boxwood, botanically referred to as buxus, is proclaimed to be “Man’s oldest garden ornamental.” About 4000 B.C., the Egyptians used boxwood in ...