Your 6 Steps To Keeping Fabulous Boxwood Home Landscaping
Boxwoods are an excellent addition to a formal landscaped garden. They really can be shaped into almost any design your heart can think of. They are fabulous in the northern cold climates keeping green and lively year round. It’s not a secret that you will have some required affection to share with your boxwoods. These couple of steps will keep your boxwoods’ perfect all year:
1. Keep from mix matching your boxwood hedge. If you have an existing boxwood hedge it is entirely possible that you will have trouble finding the exact match to what is already there. This is a situation that you’ll want to find some types with similar green. Boxes come in many different colors of green-so definitely look at what you have and what the nursery has and make some choices based on what will look good together. Otherwise you will end up with some very quick growing boxes that are lime green and some slow growers that are dark green and it will look like a mix and match nightmare!
2. When building a new hedge or landscape, do some research to find a good boxwood for your region. Look for a boxwood that is a vigorous grower, drought tolerant and disease resistant.Northern climates are superb for Korean Boxwoods because this variety is practiacally immune to topiary disease.
3. Spring maintenance of your boxwood’s starts with the addition of a half a cup per plant of a nice organic acidic fertilizer that includes peat, compost, dehydrated manure and some special evergreen nutrients around the base of the bushes. You are going to want to maintain good root coverage, so it’s good idea to administer good dirt.
4. Pruning boxwood’s is relatively straight forward but there are a few rules to live by. Never, never, never prune your boxwoods late in the fall, and, always, always, always be sure to let new spring growth “harden off” before you go out give’em that first “hair cut” of the year. Fall pruning will encourage new tender growth which will turn brown in the spring and look dead for a few months before the new fresh growth come in. Poorly [keptmaintained] boxes will brown up and look even worse in the winter when they stand out even more. It is always better if they are slightly bushy looking than dead looking.
5. A shallow root system on boxwoods typcially leads to them browning out rather fast. So remember, always mulch your boxwoods. This will protect their roots and help the roots retain moisture. The flip side of this is to be careful not to over mulch them to the point where you have buried the base of the plant and you end up creating a rotten bark situation that could ultimately kill the bush. Moderation is the key even in the garden.
6.Be on the look out for fungal diseases on your boxes. Typically hardy, boxwoods still may be subject to shrub ailments. The problem with your boxwoods could be disease issues and not simply damage from cold frost so you’ll want to do some researching. Majority of the shrub diseases that are common can be fixed using sprays. Don’t go throwing a bunch of toxins around before you have throughly analyzed the issues. This is not always as easy as it sounds, but you might have to just dig out the shrub that is causing you the issues before it gets worse. While replacing a single shrub won’t cost too much, replacing an whole row can damper any day.
Best of luck to you during this and I hope you enjoy the wonderful evergreen of the boxwoods in your landscaping…boxwoods are really a wonderful choice.
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