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

Gabriela Herman A combination of low-growing boxwood hedges, conical columns, and shapely globes gives garden designer Jon Carloftis’ Kentucky yard its traditional look. Boxwood prospers when it is ...

Boxwood has a long history in garden design, from ancient Rome to modern-day suburbia. A tidy boxwood hedge is a staple in traditional formal gardens, but landscape designers are also using the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A neatly trimmed boxwood fence running along a sidewalk - M.Nyusha/Shutterstock Is there anything more classic than a boxwood ...

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 are ...

Boxwood, a popular evergreen shrub we’ve been planting for many years, is suddenly in the crosshairs. This reliable landscape mainstay is under attack from winter burn, a well-known insect, a ...

Fences make good neighbors and so do hedges ... as long as they are done well. Hedges are the workhorses of the suburban garden. They define space. As superstars of the backdrop, they set the mood and ...

Question. I have an eighteen-year-old boxwood hedge with sections declining. Can I prune these back about two-thirds as we have done with ligustrum and pittosporum and expect them to recover? Answer.

Gardening season is in the rearview mirror, but you may have questions as you plan for next year. To ask one, simply go to the OSU Extension website, type it in and include the county where you live.