Providing the backbone of the garden in summer and a stark beauty in winter, small-leaved evergreens are invaluable. Hazel ...

Boxwood has been a popular evergreen plant for hedging or topiary for centuries. However, more people are seeking boxwood ...

A boxwood is essentially a small tree, and pretty much all trees tend toward wildness if left to their own devices. For centuries, humans have overcome this in hedge plants with regular and ...

formal hedge to edge the beds in an ornamental vegetable garden or a short hedge to flank the edges of a path, then box is the sophisticated choice. Box cuttings taken in late summer or early ...

However, a number of pests and diseases have attacked box in recent years making it harder to grow as hedges and topiary. The box tree caterpillar, which can completely defoliate plants, originally ...