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Jun 24, Here are some quick tips for pruning your boxwood, from easy cleanup, to the tools to use. For new videos every week subscribe and come back! Or check out ou. When should I prune my boxwood? Good question. I have pruned them during all seasons, even during their growth period in spring, but if I were to choose, I would pick the dormant season as the best time to prune, after the threat of sub-zero weather has passed.

So, I try to prune all of my boxwood between February 15th and May 1st. Oct 25, Buxus or the boxwood shrub is among the sturdiest of evergreen garden shrubs.

Formal designs with miniature boxwoods and pansies flourish in the wide open spaces of this baroque Rhineland garden.

It is an ideal household shrub, needing minimal maintenance. Boxwood shrubs are often used for landscaping the backyard. A well-pruned boxwood shrub helps to create natural borders around the garden in the form of hedged, green beds.

Boxwoods, because of their dense foliage, often die out in the center from a lack of sunlight.

I have a Southwestern-style home and mostly native and xeric plants, but the boxwood by my front door is a year-round, neatly shaped welcome for visitors.

About one-third of the bush should be thinned each year, since boxwoods keep their foliage for three years. Using a bypass pruner, reach inside the shrub down to about 6 inches and prune off a few of the inner stems.

Jul 31, The Buxus genus includes about 70 species of slow-growing broadleaf evergreens.

Most of the garden forms are cultivars or hybrids of two species- bushleaning.barvirens (common box) and B. microphylla (Japanese box).Boxwoods are typically large shrubs or small trees, but most of the varieties used in modern landscaping are dwarf varieties, such as B. sempervirens 'Suffruticosa', a popular. Dec 28, Neglect regular pruning, though, and a wall of evergreen foliage soon looms over your garden.

Severe pruning of boxwoods can have mixed results, but you may be able to safely cut the shrubs.