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Plant: Green Gem - Boxwood
Boxwood · Buxus 'Green Gem'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A dense, rounded, slow growing hybrid boxwood 2 to 3 feet tall and wide, developed at Sheridan Nurseries in Canada in the 1960s from Buxus microphylla 'Koreana' crossed with Buxus sempervirens. The broadleaf evergreen leaves are glossy green, under an inch long, simple and opposite with smooth margins, and insignificant creamy clusters open in spring. It grows in full sun, partial shade or dappled sunlight in clay, loam or sand with good drainage, accepts acid through alkaline soil, and resists deer and rabbits. Use it for low hedges, foundation plantings, mass plantings and small specimens.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 3 ft tall and 3 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5a-9b
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A dense, rounded, slow growing hybrid boxwood 2 to 3 feet tall and wide, developed at Sheridan Nurseries in Canada in the 1960s from Buxus microphylla 'Koreana' crossed with Buxus sempervirens. The broadleaf evergreen leaves are glossy green, under an inch long, simple and opposite with smooth margins, and insignificant creamy clusters open in spring. It grows in full sun, partial shade or dappled sunlight in clay, loam or sand with good drainage, accepts acid through alkaline soil, and resists deer and rabbits. Use it for low hedges, foundation plantings, mass plantings and small specimens.
- Flowers
- Insignificant cream to greenish yellow clusters under an inch across in spring.
- Foliage
- Broadleaf evergreen leaves, simple, opposite, elliptical to ovate, glossy green, under an inch long and wide with smooth margins.
- Fruit
- Insignificant, not often visible.
- Bark & stems
- New stems green, mature to brown, square in cross section.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light, Morning Sun, Afternoon Sun
- Pruning
- Prune after the last frost; thinning annually helps air circulation.
- Native range
- Developed in Canada at Sheridan Nurseries in the 1960's
