Also known as boxes or buxus, boxwood shrubs are the ideal plantation for landscaping and edging your garden. Boxwood is a hardy, versatile, slow growing evergreen, however there are many varieties and some grow faster than others. When I moved into my current home, the front yard was filled with a bunch of evergreen boxwood shrubs. It was a great moment when this superb Achemon Sphinx thundered up to the sheet whilst I was helping out with a moth event in Norfolk County, Ontario on Saturday night.

Middleton in Charleston, Williamsburg and Mt. Vernon boast of historic, formal boxwood gardens that tourists love to visit. Other ways in which this attribute can be used is by purchasing cedar hangers, and other closet inserts which will prevent moth related damage.

In first century BC in Greece, wealthy Romans not only graced their villas with boxwood plantings, often in topiary form, but also chose this spectacular hard wood to make assorted boxes, both decorative and practical, hand-carved ornaments, flutes, utensils, wood overlay, combs and tablets.

The creation of fake boxwood can duplicate the effect of a natural hedge or a trimmed hedge. Leafminer is the larva of a small, orange tiny fly that is less than 1/8 inch long and can be seen swarming around the boxwood in the spring. The azaleas are a little more work than the boxwood was; we water them through the summer and apply acid once or twice a year.

And instead of putting the evergreen artificial ivy, you can use the artificial boxwood hedge made of artificial azaleas or artificial bougainvilleas for a more floral effect. Another reason why many gardeners are looking to add the boxwood to their lawn space is because of the small flowers of the bush.

The American Boxwood is easily the most versatile and useful Boxwood when it comes to creating outdoor plants. All boxwood shrubs have broad, shallow roots, so you have to be careful not to cultivate very closely around them as the digging and planting might cause damage to their fragile root system.

In first century BC in Greece, wealthy Romans not only graced their villas with boxwood plantings, often in topiary form, but also chose this spectacular hard wood to make assorted boxes, both decorative and practical, hand-carved ornaments, flutes, utensils, wood overlay, combs and tablets.

The creation of fake boxwood can duplicate the effect of a natural hedge or a trimmed hedge. Leafminer is the larva of a small, orange tiny fly that is less than 1/8 inch long and can be seen swarming around the boxwood in the spring. The azaleas are a little more work than the boxwood was; we water them through the summer and apply acid once or twice a year.