Consult your individual variety for suggestions about spacing, and plant them in a ... When it comes to caring for a boxwood hedge, the biggest chore is trimming it. How much you need to do ...

A spacing of 3 to 5 feet is fairly typical, but small hedges, like a clipped boxwood or a dwarf yaupon hedge 2 feet tall, might be spaced less than 2 feet. And exceptionally wide-growing shrubs ...

Hedge, rounded shrub, topiary Photo: Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Growing up to 10 cubic feet, the white margins on this boxwood’s leaves eventually age to off ...

Planting and spacing shrubs according to ... maintain the proper shape of the hedge so that a dense growth habit can develop. Privet, boxwood, yew, and currants are shrubs that respond well ...

Here's a tip of my own. Don't shear boxwood a week before a garden event. The cut leaves will turn brown and give your hedge or topiary a shabby look. Instead, prune early enough so the leaves ...

Q: I am hoping to revitalize a boxwood hedge that is more than 40 years old. The 20-foot-long hedge was there when I bought my Berkeley house in 1970 and, looking back, probably wasn't given the ...