Q: I have more than 50 English boxwood surrounded by pine trees, and the boxwood have done terrible this year. I was told that the pine needles give off an acid that affects English boxwood, causing ...

We have fifteen 35-year-old English boxwoods. Recently, stems or complete branches in the middle of the shrub have died back. We noted a number of spider webs with a distinctive entrance in the web.

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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 ...

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.

I have been gardening for many years but never planted a boxwood. I have seen them in other yards and always admired them but decided that all the pruning that was needed was more than I wanted to ...

Dwarf English boxwoods are highly susceptible to the disease, as are the American, or common, boxwoods. Cultivars of the Korean and Japanese boxwoods appear to be slightly less susceptible. None of ...

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 ...

So, English boxwood should be placed in a sheltered spot, away from sun and wind in winter and in a location that gets some shade in the growing season. The newer varieties are better suited to sunny, ...

My grandmother Ellen Reamer celebrated her 88th birthday last Saturday. There are quite a few things my grandmother is known for. One of them is gardening. If you ask her what her favorite plant is, ...

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 ...

Boxwood blight, a highly contagious fungal infection, has struck a number of locations in Colonial Williamsburg Historic Area, causing the removal of plants, some of which were more than 100 years old ...