True tree boxwood grows up to 15 to 20 feet tall and 8 to 10 feet wide. It tends to take on a tree silhouette when not pruned to squat heights, so it can serve as a landscaping evergreen. Keep in ...

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 ...

And then there is the dreaded boxwood blight disease, caused by calonectria pseudonaviculata, first seen in the U.S. in 2011. Infected plants display brown lesions on the leaves and dark cankers ...

So, rereading, I find that it says to look for wintergreen, and offers the information that it is a low-growing shrub that you might find in snowy patches in the woods.

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.

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 ...

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

Apr. 9—The Ohio Department of Agriculture is issuing a quarantine for six area counties to contain the spread of the invasive box tree moth. The quarantine will restrict moving boxwood shrubs ...

Boxwood blight produces dark brown leaf spots and causes rapid defoliation that sometimes kills young boxwoods. It’s found in more than two dozen states. Boxwood blight affects all species of ...