25+ Wintergreen Korean Boxwood

Use it to define paths add balance or differentiate spaces within your garden.

Wintergreen korean boxwood. This boxwood plant is often used in as a foundation or hedge planting. Insularis wintergreen an evergreen shrub also goes by the name korean boxwood. Insularis commonly called korean littleleaf boxwood is a dense compact many branched broad mounded evergreen shrub with a loose and open habit. Its dark green foliage makes the wintergreen boxwood a very attractive border and landscaping shrub. Korean boxwood wintergreen is aptly named. They ll stay on the plant all winter long. The cold hardy wintergreen boxwood also known as korean boxwood is an incredibly versatile shrub.

Great for a small formal garden although the wintergreen boxwood can be grown as an individual specimen plant it is often at its best in a formal garden especially when planted in groupings. It adds appeal to casual or formal landscape designs and when grouped wintergreen complements most any garden and looks fantastic in decorative pots to accent a deck or patio. New foliage in early spring is soft and a brilliant light green. Bell shaped white flowers appearing in june and july edible red. Update your landscape with the wintergreen boxwood korean uniform evergreen shrub. Plus it s compact and easy to shape. Spreading by underground rhizomes wintergreen grows as a creeping groundcover that grows about 6 inches tall and 12 inches wide.

Wintergreen stays green through the winter and is a fantastic choice for gardeners who cannot stomach another winter of pumpkin orange boxwood. It s a cold hardy evergreen shrub with a compact and dense growth habit. A slow grower to 1 5 per year which is typically grown as a 2 2 5 tall shrub with a larger spread but which can reach 5 tall after 25 years if not pruned lower. One of the best varieties is wintergreen boxwood buxus microphylla var. Boxwood wintergreen is a popular low growing evergreen shrub also known as korean boxwood. Introduced in 1960 buxus wintergreen is a slow grower it is true but eventually reaches 4 5 feet tall wide after 10 15 years. Japonica wintergreen an easy korean boxwood plant to grow and love.

The finely textured oval leaves are lustrous and dark green. The wintergreen boxwood buxus microphylla is regularly seen as a low growing boxwood hedge or as a border defining the edges of both informal and formal gardens.