Smaller evergreen shrubs like boxwood and privet are also excellent for lower privacy hedges and adapt well to various ...

Both the insect and disease problems are causing concern about using boxwoods in our landscapes. Over the last few decades, most homeowners have replaced old, overgrown Japanese Yew with boxwoods.

boxwoods. Cultivars of the Korean and Japanese boxwoods appear to be slightly less susceptible. None of the commercial boxwood cultivars are immune to this disease. Other plants within the ...

You can cultivate your boxwood’s evergreen foliage into a desired shape or let the plant spread to create a privacy screen. There are many varieties, with the Japanese and American boxwood being ...

While hedges and shrubs are great for creating privacy, you might want to consider using evergreens that will hold up ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

Gardenias are a timeless favorite for many gardeners, but they are also quite finicky. Here are the plants you can and can't ...

The plant, typically boxwood or yew, can be shaped year after year as it grows. The topiarist will use sharp long-handled or electric clippers, or, for the specialist, lethal Japanese shears.

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Japanese is a language isolate, spoken by 121 million people in Japanese archipelago. There are small Japanese communities in American Samoa, Hawaii, North and South ...

By Li Yuan A Japanese boy was stabbed on his way to school in China on Sept. 18. That’s the date when, nearly a century earlier in 1931, Japan invaded China. The child, who was 10 years old ...