According to a survey of 4,000 landscape professionals, boxwood (Buxus) is the most popular shrub in America. And yet, about a decade ago it was nearly impossible to find boxwoods at home-improvement ...

Jim Putnam is the plant expert from the Southern Living Plant Collection. Mary Phillips is the head of native plant habitat strategy/certifications at the National Wildlife Federation. Janet Sluis is ...

Boxwoods (Buxus spp.) are one of the most common shrubs in landscapes throughout Greater Columbus. This deer-resistant, broad-leaved evergreen shrub is typically used in foundation plantings, as a ...

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 ...

Robert Frost said, "Good fences make good neighbors." Recently, while visiting with a friend, I was asked my advice about what she should use as a hedge between her house and the home of her neighbor.

We writers go on and on about the wonderful plants of winter: witch hazel, winter jasmine, sasanqua camellia, Christmas rose and so on. But truth be told, the very best winter plant has neither scent ...

I have a topiary urn in my garden formed by sculpting a boxwood shrub. I got the idea after seeing one long ago in Dublin, Ireland in the garden of writer Helen Dillon. I already had a boxwood shrub ...