Boxwood blight, a fungal disease affecting plants in the boxwood family, can be spread by discarded holiday greenery. “Having a wreath hanging on your door is not necessarily a problem because those ...
Picture this: Your once-vibrant boxwood hedge suddenly starts to wilt. The leaves develop brown spots, and then their lush, green foliage turns a sickly brown. That, my friends, is the handiwork of ...
It's not always so common to be able to take curb appeal lessons from a sprawling Atlanta mansion, but such is the case with Mariah Carey’s former home. Or, more specifically, her front yard boxwood ...
Garlands and wreaths are central to the festive allure of Colonial Williamsburg in December. This year, the work of assembling them comes with an added burden: the risk of infecting the historic ...
With the Christmas weekend over, you may be getting ready to toss out all the holiday greenery to make a clean start for the new year. But not all of those plants should be put in a pile by the road.
Everyone has an opinion regarding topiary. The cheeky collection of garden gossip, Yew and Non-Yew, Gardening for Horticultural Climbers by James Bartholomew (Century Books, 1996), lays it out so: ...
Today we visited one of Maryland's real gems: Ladew Topiary Gardens. Located about 15 miles north of the Beltway, just off Jarrettsville Pike, is the former estate of Harvey Ladew. Take one look at ...