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Plant: Green Velvet - Boxwood
Boxwood · Buxus 'Green Velvet'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A rounded, slow growing hybrid boxwood from Sheridan Nurseries in Canada, about 2 to 3 feet tall and up to 4 feet wide, carrying the darkest green foliage of the Sheridan hybrids on simple opposite elliptical to ovate evergreen leaves with smooth margins. Clemson notes the foliage rarely turns bronze in winter. Insignificant fragrant cream to green clusters open in spring and attract bees. It grows in full sun, partial shade or dappled sunlight in clay, loam or sand with good drainage, accepts acid through alkaline soil, resists deer and rabbits, and suits borders, foundation plantings, hedges and small specimens.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 3 ft tall and 4 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5a-8b
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A rounded, slow growing hybrid boxwood from Sheridan Nurseries in Canada, about 2 to 3 feet tall and up to 4 feet wide, carrying the darkest green foliage of the Sheridan hybrids on simple opposite elliptical to ovate evergreen leaves with smooth margins. Clemson notes the foliage rarely turns bronze in winter. Insignificant fragrant cream to green clusters open in spring and attract bees. It grows in full sun, partial shade or dappled sunlight in clay, loam or sand with good drainage, accepts acid through alkaline soil, resists deer and rabbits, and suits borders, foundation plantings, hedges and small specimens.
- Flowers
- Insignificant fragrant cream to green clusters under an inch across in spring.
- Foliage
- Deep green simple opposite elliptical to ovate broadleaf evergreen leaves with smooth margins, the darkest green of the Sheridan hybrids, rarely turning bronze in winter.
- 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
