Features and Growing Tips

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Landscape Qualities

Green Mountain Boxwood (spiral form) is a dense multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a narrowly upright and columnar growth habit. 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 (spiral form) is primarily valued in the landscape or garden for its rigidly columnar form. It has rich green evergreen foliage. The small round leaves remain green throughout the winter.

Planting and Growing

Green Mountain Boxwood (spiral form) will grow to be about 6 feet tall at maturity | with a spread of 14 inches. It has a low canopy | 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 6'Hx14"W

Attracts bees

Zone 4b

Likes average to moist soil