Green Mountain Boxwood
Buxus 'Green Mountain'
$159.00
A compact hybrid broadleaf evergreen with a pyramidal shape, makes a great accent hedge or garden detail plant, as it takes trimming well; very popular and one of the hardier varieties
Features and Growing Tips
Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.
Landscape Qualities
Green Mountain Boxwood is a dense multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a shapely oval form. It lends an extremely fine and delicate texture to the landscape composition which can make it a great accent feature on this basis alone.
Ornamental Qualities
Green Mountain Boxwood is primarily valued in the landscape or garden for its decidedly oval form. It has rich green evergreen foliage. The small round leaves remain green throughout the winter.
Planting and Growing
Green Mountain Boxwood will grow to be about 5 feet tall at maturity | with a spread of 3 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front | and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a slow rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years.
This shrub does best in full sun to partial shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions | and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments | and will benefit from being planted in a relatively sheltered location. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.
Plant Facts
Prefers full sun to partial shade
Deer Resistant
Keep moisture level average to moist
Mature Size 5'Hx3'W
Attracts bees
Zone 4b
Likes average to moist soil