Why Plant Boxwoods

Why plant boxwoods you might ask? Boxwoods are one of the simplest shrubs that will almost always be a success. The plant is rather low maintenance and fairly simple to plant. You just need to locate which boxwood would do best for you. This post is all about why plant boxwoods.

These types of shrubs offer a gorgeous green to any area of your garden or landscaping project. They are a beautiful shrub that can be left alone to grow and spread out among your other plants or one to maintain into shapes or hedges.

The diversity of this low maintenance shrub is the exact reason you should select it for your next gardening project.

This post is all about why plant boxwoods.

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How Can Boxwoods Be Used

So for me, I needed to plant boxwoods to create a hedge as a hindrance over a four foot retaining wall.

For the wall, I needed to select a plant that had shallow roots so as to not disrupt the integrity of the wall.

After reworking my original plan, I ended up just planting 9 shrubs. I spread them out evenly over the wall, and I used the extra boxwood for the front yard to fill in some empty space.

You should keep them 3-4 feet apart to give them some room to grow.

Also, you may like to add some as a border around your home or to sprinkle in around other perennials for a green contrast throughout the growing season.

How To Plant Boxwoods

So the process to plant boxwoods is rather easy.

You need to make sure to plant most boxwoods about 3-4 four feet apart. Of course, before making any type of plans double check the exact type of boxwood you are planting.

Most boxwoods thrive in full to partial sun, so most locations will work perfectly.

Also, when planting the boxwoods, I planted them as far down as the container minus about two inches. I used this machine to dig into the ground. It is so much easier to use when you have several of these to plant. You can rent one of these at your local hardware store too.

I didn’t plant them completely in the ground as I wanted to make sure that the top of the plant could be recovered with topsoil.

After you create the hole for the plant, be sure to water the area and the plant base before putting it into the ground.

The key is to make sure to put soil around the plant to cover it up and to not have any mulch within 12 inches from the middle. The mulch will kill the plant, and ruin the rooting process.