Green Mountain Boxwood

Green Mountain Boxwood

Green Mountain Boxwood is a compact, evergreen shrub with dark, oval-shaped leaves, offering a formal and neat appearance in gardens and landscapes. It is a versatile and highly beneficial evergreen shrub with numerous advantages in landscaping projects. This variety is admired for its compact, upright growth habit and lush, dark foliage. Green Mountain Boxwood is an conifer bush that is popular with landscapers, topiary artists, and gardeners. It's also known as the Buxus microphylla var. japonica, or Buxus X. Some gardeners simply refer to it as the boxwood. It's native to Asia and Europe and typically grows between three and five feet tall. Characteristics of the Green Mountain Boxwood The hedge is an evergreen, meaning that the leaves retain their color all year. The only exception is in winter if it's exposed to full sunlight. In that instance, the leaves may turn bronze. However, they don't stay bronze for very long. This popular hedge grows to a height of five feet and typically has a width or spread of between two and three feet. It's prized for its dense foliage, which makes it easy to prune and shape. Gardeners can expect it to grow an average of three inches per year and reach a height of three feet within the first ten years. It can be identified by the opposite arrangement of its leaves and by its square stems. Best Uses for the Green Mountain Boxwood It is most commonly used by gardens and landscapers as a foundation hedge, living fence, hedge maze, or mass planting for sculpting purposes. In fact, it's highly prized for its ability to take on topiary forms. Wildlife Attracted by the Green Mountain Boxwood In the spring, it grows clusters of yellow, tan, or gold flowers. The fragrant blossoms attract butterflies, bees, and even hummingbirds. These characteristics make it the perfect outline for flower gardens, knot gardens, and butterfly gardens. Recommended Companion Plants for the Green Mountain Boxwood It does well alongside many other shrubs, bushes, and flowers. Some favorites include lilacs, roses, lavender, tulips, daffodils, Russian sage, petunias and peonies. It is a popular and preferred shrub by many landscapers and gardeners. It can be used to form living fences and hedge mazes and to outline flower beds and knot gardens. Skilled horticulturalists can even shape this beautiful shrub into elegant and eye-catching pieces of living art.