Green Mountain Boxwood
Buxus x 'Green Mountain'
Vigorous growing boxwood when young. Dense upright form with bright green leaves that retain their color through winter. Natural cone shaped form if left unsheared, excellent hedge. Evergreen.
| Botanical Pronunciation: | BUK-sus |
| Key feature: | Hedge Plant |
| Plant type: | Shrub |
| Garden styles: | Asian/Zen, Mediterranean |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Evergreen |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 4 - 9 |
| Light needs: | Partial to full sun |
| Water Needs: | Needs regular watering - weekly, or more often in extreme heat. |
| Average landscape size: | Moderate growing 5 ft. tall, 3 ft. wide. |
| Growth rate: | Moderate |
| Special features: | Deer Resistant, Year-round Interest |
| Landscape uses: | Border, Hedge, Mass Planting, Specimen, Topiary |
| Flower color: | Yellow |
| Blooms: | Inconspicuous |
| Foliage color: | Green |
| Item no.: | 1382 |
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Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. For a tidy, neat appearance, shear annually to shape. Pruning time: summer.
Design Ideas
Use as a hedge or prune to a variety of formal forms. Create a knot garden or leave as a stand alone specimen around foundations and the back of perennial borders.
Companion Plants
Use colorful shrubs and perennials like Roses, Coneflower, Penstemmon and Rock Rose and Anemone in the foreground of a Boxwood hedge border. Mix with Rosemary, Germander and Bee Balm along with other aromatic plants and herbs in a formal European style not garden.
History
This is a hybrid boxwood cultivar that resulted from the cross of the Asian B. microphylla var koreana with the European B. sempervirens. It is one of the Sheridan Green Series introduced by Sheridan Nurseries of Ontario, Canada. Boxwood is so named because its very hard wood was valued in ancient times for making boxes and small containers.
Vigorous growing boxwood when young. Dense upright form with bright green leaves that retain their color through winter. Natural cone shaped form if left unsheared, excellent hedge. Evergreen.
Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. For a tidy, neat appearance, shear annually to shape. Pruning time: summer.
Design Ideas
Use as a hedge or prune to a variety of formal forms. Create a knot garden or leave as a stand alone specimen around foundations and the back of perennial borders.
Companion Plants
Use colorful shrubs and perennials like Roses, Coneflower, Penstemmon and Rock Rose and Anemone in the foreground of a Boxwood hedge border. Mix with Rosemary, Germander and Bee Balm along with other aromatic plants and herbs in a formal European style not garden.
History
This is a hybrid boxwood cultivar that resulted from the cross of the Asian B. microphylla var koreana with the European B. sempervirens. It is one of the Sheridan Green Series introduced by Sheridan Nurseries of Ontario, Canada. Boxwood is so named because its very hard wood was valued in ancient times for making boxes and small containers.
| Botanical Pronunciation: | BUK-sus |
| Key feature: | Hedge Plant |
| Plant type: | Shrub |
| Garden styles: | Asian/Zen, Mediterranean |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Evergreen |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 4 - 9 |
| Light needs: | Partial to full sun |
| Water Needs: | Needs regular watering - weekly, or more often in extreme heat. |
| Average landscape size: | Moderate growing 5 ft. tall, 3 ft. wide. |
| Growth rate: | Moderate |
| Special features: | Deer Resistant, Year-round Interest |
| Landscape uses: | Border, Hedge, Mass Planting, Specimen, Topiary |
| Flower color: | Yellow |
| Blooms: | Inconspicuous |
| Foliage color: | Green |
| Item no.: | 1382 |
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