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Boxwood shrubs are perhaps one of the most planted evergreen shrubs in landscapes around the Midwest. Although they are typically hardy in our area, many suffer from winter injury. In ...

Better Boxwoods. Handout/ (Credit: Minter Country Garden) In the 1990s, a disease, identified as boxwood blight, began affecting and often destroying boxwood plants in Europe. Both residential and ...

It’s also a great hardy Zone 5 container plant. Unlike many boxwood varieties, it keeps its evergreen vibrancy all year long, which is especially appreciated during the winter.

Boxwood is no more. Gone. Maybe not in 2025, but certainly in the next year or two. Boxwood plants are perhaps the most widely planted evergreen. There is hardly a home garden that doesn’t have ...

“Boxwoods typically look like they've been winter damaged,” Hertz said. “I think people come out of the winter and they look at their plants and they go, ‘Oh, it was a bad winter,’ when ...

Over the past few months, we’ve had our share of unusually cold weather causing foliar problems. Some boxwoods, camellias and other evergreen shrubs have yellow-orange leaves.