Buxus sempervirens
(Box Hedge, English Box)

Buxus sempervirens
(Box Hedge, English Box)

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1.5L Pot $9.50 $9.00

Details:

Type: Shrub
Growth Rate: Medium
Mature Height: 1 m
Mature Width: 0.5 m
Site Condition: Coastal, Exposed, Frost Tolerant, Heavy Soil, Loamy Soil, Sandy Soil, Waterways
Sun: Full Sun, Part Shade
Drainage: Dry, Moist
Features: Suitable for bordering or edging and hedging or shelter. Foliage colour: Green.

Buxus sempervirens, commonly called Box Hedge or English Box, is a bushy evergreen shrub with lush green foliage. Its valued for topiary hedging as it tolerates close shearing. A must for the formal garden. Plant them 20cm apart for a low tightly clipped formal hedge. Evergreen. Frost hardy.

The common box, European box, or boxwood, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Buxus, native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and southwest Asia, from southern England south to northern Morocco, and east through the northern Mediterranean region to Turkey.

Habitat: The species typically grows on soils derived from chalk, limestone, usually as an understorey in forests of larger trees, most commonly associated with European beech (Fagus sylvatica) forests, but also sometimes in open dry montane scrub, particularly in the Mediterranean region. Box Hill, Surrey is named after its notable box population, which comprises the largest area of native box woodland in England.

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