[78] Wintergreen Boxwood Flowers
Great for a small formal garden although the wintergreen boxwood can be grown as an individual specimen plant it is often at its best in a formal garden especially when planted in groupings.
[94] Wintergreen Boxwood Flowers . One of the most versatile shrubs boxwoods bring year round color to the garden. Their evergreen foliage brightens dreary winter landscapes provides structure to both formal and informal gardens and can be shaped into tightly clipped geometric forms or whimsical shapes. Japonica wintergreen an easy korean boxwood plant to grow and love.
Beloved for use in both front yard and backyard landscapes boxwoods are broad leaved evergreen shrubs that remain green all year long. The finely textured oval leaves are lustrous and dark green. Its dark green foliage makes the wintergreen boxwood a very attractive border and landscaping shrub.
Spreading by underground rhizomes wintergreen grows as a creeping groundcover that grows about 6 inches tall and 12 inches wide. One of the best varieties is wintergreen boxwood buxus microphylla var. Bell shaped white flowers appearing in june and july edible red.
This boxwood does not prefer harsh winter wind so consider a more sheltered area in colder climates. Boxwoods are a classic garden shrub first planted in america in the mid 1600s they re equally at home as accents hedges topiaries or in containers they re also deer resistant so their popularity has skyrocketed in recent years. This shrub is also known as a korean boxwood.