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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

So, it's ideal to border the shrub and add a layer of unique flowers that won't completely mask your boxwood hedge. It grows best in USDA zones 3 to 7, with well-drained soil.

Looking for a rainbow of berries? Plant Chilean wintergreen Updated: Nov. 04, 2010, 10:23 a.m. | Published: Nov. 04, 2010, 9:23 a.m. By The Oregonian/OregonLive View full size Youngblood Nursery ...

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.

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

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 ...