Boxwoods are an excellent addition to a formal landscaped garden. They really can be shaped into almost any design your heart can think of. They're know for being perfect in gardens, staying vigorous and green all throughout the year and even in the northern seasons. Boxwood's do require a certain amount of care and maintenance. Keep your boxwood's looking great all year with these few simple steps:

1. Avoid a  mix and match boxwood hedge. If you have a boxwood hedge that needs replacement it is totally possible to have issue finding the exact same replacement to what you already got. For this scenario, look for a variation with a similarity in the branch. Just like with flowers, there are a variety of choices and what looks good together can vary, so examine what the green house has, see what looks good together and make your decisions accordingly. Alternatively you'll wind up with assortment of rapid growth and slow growth boxes with some being a pale green and others being more brilliant green giving you a hodge-podge end result!

2. Every region is different, so doing your homework before constructing your new hedge designs is solid advice. You will be better off if you can get a nice boxwood that is healthy, hearty and vivacious.  For example, Korean Boxwood is a variety that grows quickly,and is disease resistant in northern climates.

3. Your spring clean-up and maintenance of boxwood's starts with the addition of a 1/2 cup (per plant) of good organic, acidic fertilizer that has compost, peat, some special evergreen nutirents and dehydrated manure, mixed and spread out, around the base of your bushes. Roots have to be protected and will require you to accomodate them with fresh soil each couple of seasons.

4. The process of boxwood pruning is a pretty forward thing with a couple rules worth knowing. Never, never, never prune the boxwoods late in the fall, and, always, always, always be sure to let new spring growth "harden off" before you go out give'em that first "hair cut" of the year. If you didn't know, pruning in the fall promotes new and tender sprigs to grow that are going to brown in the spring. This will cause a dead look for several months before new growth comes in so your best not to do it. Since boxes are a kind of winter interest plant it is bad form to have big dead brown splotches in them. Better they be a little shaggy than dead looking.  

5. A shallow root system on boxwoods typcially leads to your green beauties drying out rather fast. So don't forget to do the mulching on your boxwoods. This is going to help the boxes roots to retain the water they do get and protect them. Shy away from mulch over-kill as you could very well wind up killing your trees due to bark rot from buried bases. Moderation is the key even in the garden.

6.Periodically do a check of your boxes for fungal type diseases. While they are generally vigorous they can fall victim to few problems. The problem with your boxwoods could be disease caused and not just some damage from winter so you'll want to do some researching. Most diseases can be easily cured with a fungicide spray or an oil soap spray depending on what you are dealing with: mold or insect. Don't go throwing a bunch of toxins around before you have throughly analyzed the issues. If all else fails just dig it out and replace the offending bush before it contaminates the rest of your hedge. Fortuantly having to replace just one plant isn't a huge deal, but when it comes to big issues and replacing a full hedged area your in for some bucks.

Enjoy this time of landscaping...boxwoods are really great for landscaping wheather you have a formal or even informal setting.

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