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 ...

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 ...

Boxwoods have been in recorded history since 4000 B.C. when the Egyptians first used them in formal gardens. They came to North America from Europe and Asia in the mid-1600s. The American Boxwood ...

Size: The rounded shrub grows to be 10 feet tall and 7 feet wide when mature. Care: Once established, wintergreen barberry is drought tolerant. It will respond well to pruning and shearing, and ...

This small evergreen shrub's berries hang on through winter -- and they're edible, as well. ... Plant Chilean wintergreen . Updated: Nov. 04, 2010, 10:23 a.m.

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.

Evergreen shrubs like boxwood tend to use a lot of nitrogen. The best way to replenish the available nitrogen in the soil is to feed with a slow-release, urea-based, granular fertilizer with NPK ...

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 ...

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 ...

Planting Boxwood Shrubs The Right Way Boxwoods are one of the best hedges to plant for privacy in your yard , and proper planting will help you grow a lush, green hedge along your fence line.