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Plant: Green Mountain - Boxwood
Boxwood · Buxus 'Green Mountain'
Size: 30"
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More about this plant
A dense, naturally cone shaped hybrid boxwood from Sheridan Nurseries in Canada, growing slowly to about 4 to 5 feet tall and 2 to 3 feet wide. The glossy green broadleaf evergreen leaves are about three quarters of an inch long, simple and opposite with entire margins, and non showy fragrant clusters at the leaf axils in spring attract bees. It grows in full sun, partial shade or dappled sunlight in clay, loam or sand with good drainage and accepts acid through alkaline soil. Clemson notes it is often used for topiary as well as hedging, and it resists deer and rabbits.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 5 ft tall and 3 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5a-8b
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A dense, naturally cone shaped hybrid boxwood from Sheridan Nurseries in Canada, growing slowly to about 4 to 5 feet tall and 2 to 3 feet wide. The glossy green broadleaf evergreen leaves are about three quarters of an inch long, simple and opposite with entire margins, and non showy fragrant clusters at the leaf axils in spring attract bees. It grows in full sun, partial shade or dappled sunlight in clay, loam or sand with good drainage and accepts acid through alkaline soil. Clemson notes it is often used for topiary as well as hedging, and it resists deer and rabbits.
- Flowers
- Non showy fragrant clusters at the leaf axils in spring that attract bees.
- Foliage
- Broadleaf evergreen leaves, simple and opposite, elliptical to ovate with entire margins, glossy green and about three quarters of an inch long.
- 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
