Drought-tolerant, deer-resistant, and endlessly versatile in garden design, this evergreen favorite earns its keep.

With the Christmas weekend over, you may be getting ready to toss out all the holiday greenery to make a clean start for the new year. But not all of those plants should be put in a pile by the road.

The first step in planning a good landscape is to decide what shape and size plant will work best for each location. Foundation beds around your house require many shapes and sizes of plants because ...

Q: I have 40+ boxwoods – well established over 25 years. Sometimes winter wind and sun “burn†hit areas of the plants, but they usually spring back with new growth. However, last growing season ...

Learn about blight resistant boxwood cultivars being developed in Virginia Peggy Singlemann visits Saunders Brothers in Piney River to meet with Bennett Saunders and learn how their 100 year old ...

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 ...

With fall planting in full swing and the holidays just around the corner, boxwoods — as plantings and decorations — are on many people’s minds. But Virginia Cooperative Extension wants to raise a ...

My heart sank when a neighbor told me that her boxwoods had boxwood blight. Boxwood blight is a fungal disease that is spreading rapidly across North America. Boxwood blight causes black spots on ...

Think “boxwood” and you probably conjure up images of Colonial gardens and intricate hedges. Boxwoods (Buxus spp.) are among the oldest nonnative plants grown in America but, fortunately, are not ...