Plant Profile

Buxus sempervirens (Common Boxwood)

Boxwood has traditional landscape use, just think of old English or French gardens. Eventually reaching 1-1.5 m (back in nature its able to reach 5-8 m). Boxwood grows very slowly. It has a small evergreen ovate leaves where the venation does show at all. The leaves are about 1 cm. The flowers are born in the leaf axis but unnoticeable for the eye. Use this plant as a hedge, mass planting and the best for topiary. It needs partial sun or shade. It grows best on clay or loamy soil. On sand it requires continues irrigation plus on sand several nematodes gives trouble for the plant.

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  • By Leo Michels (Own work, www.imagines-plantarum.de) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
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  • By Leo Michels (Own work, www.imagines-plantarum.de) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
  • By Maurice REILLE (photo originale jpeg) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
  • By Tomasz "Nemo5576" Górny (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons
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