Boxwood is a popular staple in formal gardens, where it acts as a border and lines walkways. In more contemporary landscapes, gardeners trim boxwood into shapes, including orbs, cones, and, in some ...

Boxwoods are popular shrubs for landscaping in the Southern garden. They are slow growers, which means you don't need to prune often to keep them to a desirable size. But this also means you have to ...

Walk down almost any street and you'll spot boxwoods (Buxus sempervirens) edging yards or framing walkways. This popular evergreen shrub is perfect for plant sculpting, which is part of its charm.

Boxwoods are hardy evergreen shrubs that are valuable for forming borders for driveways and walkways for formal and contemporary homes. Learn when to trim boxwoods and how best to do it for a neat, ...

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

The next few weeks are some of the year’s best for pruning landscape plants – mainly woody-stemmed ones that already have bloomed for the year, as well as most needled evergreens. Spring-blooming ...

Q: In May, high winds blew down the center trunk of the maple tree shown in the photo (see reader's photo). The tree is still alive and had full foliage on the remaining branches, which formed the ...

If they are spring-blooming shrubs, like azaleas, don't do anything to them now. Let spring arrive and give them a chance to bloom. Two other plants gardeners often worry about are big-leaf hydrangeas ...