Green Mountain Boxwood
Green Mountain Boxwood is a compact, evergreen shrub with dark, oval-shaped leaves that offers 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 a conifer bush popular with landscapers, topiary artists, and gardeners. It's also known as Buxus microphylla var. japonica or Buxus X. Some gardeners call it the shrub. It's native to Asia and Europe and typically grows between three and five feet tall.
Green Mountain Boxwood Is A Evergreen
The hedge is an evergreen, meaning the leaves retain 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 only stay bronze for a short time. This popular hedge grows to a height of five feet and typically has a width or spread 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.
Gardeners and landscapers commonly use it as a foundation hedge, living fence, hedge maze, or mass planting for sculpting purposes. It's highly prized for its ability to take on topiary forms.
The Blooms Of 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, knot, and butterfly gardens.
Plants That Do Well Next To 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.
Green Mountain Boxwood is a popular and preferred shrub by many landscapers and gardeners. It can form living fences and hedge mazes and outline flower beds and knot gardens. Skilled horticulturalists can even shape this beautiful shrub into elegant and eye-catching pieces of living art pieces
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