Green Velvet Boxwood Spacing
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Drive a stake to mark each end of the trench.
Green velvet boxwood spacing. This is by far the best plant available for low hedges. Develops a vigorous rounded form if not pruned. Green velvet boxwood is a cultivar derived from korean boxwoods. It is a rather slow growing boxwood with a low rounded form but it retains its good green color all winter long.
If the intention is to grow a small and formal hedge plant the boxwoods 6 to 8 inches apart. Green velvet boxwood is the perfect boxwood choice for round specimens or hedges all across the country but especially in colder areas where traditional english boxwood is damaged in winter. Using a shovel form a shallow trench around 2 feet wide below. Mature growth is around 2 3 tall x 3 wide.
To plant a hedge of green velvet boxwood bushes space the individual shrubs with their centers between 2 and 3 feet apart. A wonderful evergreen that will provide year round cold hardy color and structure in the garden. Spacing hedges grown with boxwoods give their best effect when they are dense and compact. Water regularly weekly or more often in extreme heat or containers.
Both have small rounded leaves but green velvet has a more pale green leaf than the darker more shiny leafed winter gem and the green velvet leaf has kind of a point on the tip. This plant works great for hedges or foundation planting in protected sites. But performs equally as well in northern climates as well. A full bodied boxwood well suited for dense low hedges.
Buxus green velvet boxwood is a compact broad mounded evergreen shrub with a lush foliage of opposite glossy dark green leaves. Landscape ideas this boxwood makes an excellent hedge plant. Winter gem is buxus sinica var. The foliage retains its excellent dark green color throughout the winter.
Extend a tape measure along the ground in the desired location for the boxwood hedge. Then tie a string from one stake to the other pulling it taut. Insularis and is often referred to as korean boxwood. This hybrid variety has the tough genes of the korean boxwood to help it survive cold winters without damage and always looks fresh and a rich green color in every season of the year.
If using the larger growing varieties that have taller mature heights space the plants 18 to 30 inches apart as recommended by the purdue cooperative extension. The foliage remains green all year long though it may get a small amount of bronzing on the leaves in the winter. Green velvet boxwood is an extremely hardy hybrid boxwood variety that is especially well suited for use in the southeastern us due to its increased tolerance of warmer climates higher humidity. Tough hardy and easy to grow this boxwood provides color year round as well as form texture and contrast to its companion plants.
Green velvet is a cross between buxus sempervirens and buxus microphylla koreana.