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Plant: Green Beauty - Boxwood
Boxwood · Buxus microphylla var. japonica 'Green Beauty'
Size: 3 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
A rounded Japanese boxwood that matures at about 3 to 5 feet tall by 3 to 5 feet wide, slightly wider than tall, with green evergreen foliage. Clemson recommends it as a foundation plant or trained into formal shapes and hedges. Like other boxwoods it grows slowly in full sun or partial shade in clay, loam or sand with good drainage, tolerates a wide pH range, carries small non showy creamy yellow spring flowers that attract bees, and resists deer and rabbits.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 5 ft tall and 5 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-9
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A rounded Japanese boxwood that matures at about 3 to 5 feet tall by 3 to 5 feet wide, slightly wider than tall, with green evergreen foliage. Clemson recommends it as a foundation plant or trained into formal shapes and hedges. Like other boxwoods it grows slowly in full sun or partial shade in clay, loam or sand with good drainage, tolerates a wide pH range, carries small non showy creamy yellow spring flowers that attract bees, and resists deer and rabbits.
- Light
- Morning Sun, Afternoon Sun
- Pruning
- Thin annually any time above freezing; shear in early June and not after mid-August.
