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Boxwood nursery & CULTIVAR information |
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CHOOSING CULTIVARS
The most important aspect in choosing boxwood cultivars is to select the cultivar that best suits your particular application. This will allow for better long term success of your planting and reduce the amount of care necessary. Consider use, height, width, exposure, drainage, and soil conditions. Check our Boxwood Care page for tips on planting.
SITE SELECTION
Well draining soil is the most important thing for boxwood success. Soil should be rich in microbes which will create the natural nutrient cycle slowly providing nitrogen plus the other 16 elements to the plants. The microbes and fungi will also protect the roots. See Boxwood Care section for more details.
ORDERING BOXWOOD
Please contact AJF Design to order our Organically Managed Boxwood.
Andrea Filippone - info@ajfdesign.com
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AJF BOXWOOD NURSERY
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CULTIVAR Overview
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Scroll down or click the image above to view details each cultivar. Click to download a pdf of this guide. |
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grace hendrick phillips
Buxus microphylla 'Grace Hendrick Phillips' |
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Low habit with great texture, great for dwarf hedge or knot garden
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6-8 |
| Exposure |
Part Shade to Shade |
| Size |
3' wide x 1' tall when full grown |
| Color & Leaf |
Light Green |
| Growth |
Slow |
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| COMPACTA - Buxus microphylla 'Compacta' |
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Small and dense, beautiful specimen plant, good for bonsai
| Zones |
6-9 |
| Exposure |
Full Sun to Part Shade |
| Size |
3' wide x 1.5' tall when full grown |
| Color & Leaf |
Medium green |
| Growth |
Slow |
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| Insularis 'nana' - Buxus sinca var. insularis 'Nana' |
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Feathery appearance, prefers shade
Plant in understory to prevent weak center from being damaged by snow loads
| Zones |
6 - 8 |
| Exposure |
Part Shade to Shade |
| Size |
3' wide x 1.5' tall when full grown |
| Color & Leaf |
Chartreuse |
| Growth |
Slow - Medium |
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| Vardar Valley - Buxus sempervirens 'Vardar Valley' |
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Found by Edgar Anderson on his plant expedition to Macedonia in 1934.
This cultivar has very unique characteristics - beautiful bluish green color in the spring. Grows more horizontally than vertically
Great color, horizontal growth, rose like petals at end of branch, cold hardy
| Zones |
4 - 8 |
| Exposure |
Full Sun to Shade |
| Size |
4' wide x 2' tall when full grown |
| Color & Leaf |
Blue green, stays dark green year round,
rose like petals at end of branch |
| Growth |
Medium. Grows more horizontally than vertically |
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| green mound - Buxus x Green Mound |
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Beautifully round, great natural shape does not need pruning, great for containers
| Zones |
4 - 8 |
| Exposure |
Full Sun to Shade |
| Size |
3' wide x 3' tall when full grown |
| Color & Leaf |
Medium green |
| Growth |
Medium |
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| Justin Brouwers - Buxus sempervirens 'Justin Brouwers' |
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Our favorite boxwood. Stays a nice dark green all winter. Great mounding habit – does not get over 24”. Good for low borders. Good substitute for English dwarf borders. Young plants may have brown tips in late winter. Not to worry, prune off.
Tiny leaves, low cloud-like effect, great for low hedges & as substitute for English. Dense, needs pruning. Not good in containers.
| Zones |
6 - 8 |
| Exposure |
Full Sun to Shade |
| Size |
4' wide x 3' tall when full grown |
| Color & Leaf |
Dark green, tiny leaves |
| Growth |
Medium |
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| newport blue - Buxus sempervirens 'Newport Blue' |
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Wonderful color, natural conical shape
| Zones |
5 - 8 |
| Exposure |
Full Sun to Part Shade |
| Size |
3' wide x 4' tall when full grown |
| Color & Leaf |
Dark blue/green |
| Growth |
Medium |
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| Green Mountain - Buxus x Green Mountain |
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Great for hedges & topiary
| Zones |
4 - 8 |
| Exposure |
Full Sun to Shade |
| Size |
3' wide x 4' tall when full grown |
| Color & Leaf |
Medium green |
| Growth |
Fast |
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| rotundifolia - Buxus sempervirens 'Rotundifolia' |
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Cold hardy, large leaves, can get very tall
Amazing plant. The largest shiny semi cupped leaves. If not pruned it could grow very tall and open habit. But pruned it can stay very round and nicely shaped.
| Zones |
5 - 8 |
| Exposure |
Full Sun to Shade |
| Size |
5' wide x 8' tall when full grown |
| Color & Leaf |
Shiny dark green, rounded leaves |
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Fast |
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| american - Buxus sempervirens (American) |
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Fast growing, wide and tall, good for topiary, great for tall hedges
Most common known boxwood that most people refer to as American but actually it is not indigenous to the US. It actually its origins are in the Balkans of Southeast Europe and the Caucasus that borders Russia and Europe.
| Zones |
5 - 8 |
| Exposure |
Full Sun to Shade |
| Size |
8' wide x 10' tall when full grown |
| Color & Leaf |
Very dark green color all year. Pointed leaves. |
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The fastest growing. More upright. Can grow tall and wide |
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Leaf Minor, …….Mites |
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| graham blandy - Buxus sempervirens 'Graham Blandy' |
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Italian cedar thin, needs some tying to maintain shape
| Zones |
6 - 8 |
| Exposure |
Full Sun to Part Sun |
| Size |
2' wide x 10' tall when full grown |
| Color & Leaf |
Medium green |
| Growth |
Medium
Needs some tying to prevent it from splaying outward |
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| fastigiata - Buxus sempervirens 'Fastigiata' |
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Perfect upright cultivar, great for tall hedges
Keeps it's form vs. Graham Blandy that might splay out and need tying
| Zones |
6 - 8 |
| Exposure |
Full Sun to Shade |
| Size |
4' wide x 10' tall when full grown |
| Color & Leaf |
Stays very dark green, pointed leaves |
| Growth |
Medium - Fast |
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| ENGLISH - Buxus sempervirens 'Suffruticosa' |
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Second most popular evergreen shrub. Not recommended
Most commonly referred to as English or Dwarf Boxwood. Although it is slow growing, it is not dwarf and can grow over 10’ tall after many many years. It is not indigenous to England but rather to Southeast Europe and Russia.
| Zones |
6 - 8 |
| Exposure |
Part Sun to Shade |
| Size |
4' wide x 4' tall when full grown |
| Color & Leaf |
Round leaves |
| Growth |
Very slow |
| Care |
Prefers to be in a shadier site and not in full sun.
Needs to be thinned to avoid fungal disease like Volutella |
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Volutella |
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LINKS TO ADDITIONAL BOXWOOD RESOURCES |
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AJF Design - P.O. Box 292 - Pottersville, NJ - 07979 |
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