Wintergreen Boxwood Flowers
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Spreading by underground rhizomes wintergreen grows as a creeping groundcover that grows about 6 inches tall and 12 inches wide.
Wintergreen boxwood flowers. Japonica wintergreen an easy korean boxwood plant to grow and love. One of the most versatile shrubs boxwoods bring year round color to the garden. Beloved for use in both front yard and backyard landscapes boxwoods are broad leaved evergreen shrubs that remain green all year long. Great for a small formal garden although the wintergreen boxwood can be grown as an individual specimen plant it is often at its best in a formal garden especially when planted in groupings.
Their evergreen foliage brightens dreary winter landscapes provides structure to both formal and informal gardens and can be shaped into tightly clipped geometric forms or whimsical shapes. This shrub is also known as a korean boxwood. The finely textured oval leaves are lustrous and dark green. Boxwoods are a classic garden shrub first planted in america in the mid 1600s they re equally at home as accents hedges topiaries or in containers they re also deer resistant so their popularity has skyrocketed in recent years.
The new growth appears a lighter shade of green then transitions to a full dark color. This boxwood does not prefer harsh winter wind so consider a more sheltered area in colder climates. Japonica wintergreen the wintergreen boxwood has small oval leaves that do well with or without pruning. Its dark green foliage makes the wintergreen boxwood a very attractive border and landscaping shrub.