If you want to make the most of your boxwood-based privacy fence, you need to follow a few planting rules to achieve success and elegance.

New to my garden this past summer is a wonderful evergreen shrub, Gaultheria procumbens “Very Berry” Wintergreen. The genus, Gaultheria was first named in 1783 to honor a Canadian physician ...

Most types of boxwood shrubs are cultivars of either Buxus sempervirens, also known as common or American boxwood, or Buxus microphylla, better known as Japanese boxwood. Other boxwood varieties ...

Q. We have a variegated boxwood shrub that is starting to revert back to solid green. Most of the shrub has yellow and green striped leaves that we really like. This year one branch turned all ...

Wintergreen, anyone? I don't mean chewing gum, flavoring or tooth powder. I mean do you know where the shrub grows? Encyclopedias say that it grows in almost all of the Northern Hemisphere. How ...

An Expert Guide for This Popular Landscaping Plant, including proper watering, pruning, recognizing common diseases and more ...

This small, compact, evergreen shrub with glossy leaves produces berries in a rainbow of colors -- purple, white, red, rose, pink -- all very showy, with a metallic sheen. The berries appear in ...

I am not trying to discourage folks from using the classic boxwood shrub that's been around for centuries. But I do think there are some interesting alternatives for a time when these disease ...

Great Plant Pick: Berberis julianae aka wintergreen barberry The round shrub’s bright red leaves in the fall will deepen in tone to burgundy as winter approaches. by Richie Steffen Friday ...

Feeding your boxwoods keeps these versatile shrubs healthy and vibrantly green. Here's how to fertilize boxwood the right way.

Shiny broad leaf evergreens such as boxwood, camellia, rhododendron, laurel, nandina, holly, mahonia and aucuba all look great in the winter garden. Here mahonia is shown. (Photo | Lorraine Kiefer ...

The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development announced Tuesday that boxwood blight has been found in three Oakland County locations. The department says those include a landscape ...