Even if you use boxwood as a garden edge, privacy hedge, or container shrub, adding a companion plant can make your garden more dynamic and vibrant. Read more: 10 Mistakes Everyone Makes When ...

Hydrangeas are a flower power plant for summer gardens. They grow in hard-to-fill niches in garden plantings, or they can ...

Planting a hedge Once cuttings are established and have developed a strong root system, they can be planted out into a sunny or partly shaded site. Space plants 30cm (1ft) apart in well-prepared ...

For sheared hedges, you obviously want to look for plants that can handle regular, heavy pruning. Sure, yews ( Taxus ) and boxwood ( Buxus ) work well. But there are many other options out there.

Gardening 101: Growing herbs by the box 02:15. ... Mine is now about four years old. I trim it like a small, low hedge in the summer months. Lemon thyme has a great taste for cooking.

Either way, box, or Buxus, the classic plant for topiary because it holds its shape so well, is being consumed by box caterpillar and by the fungal box blight, which, since the 1990s, has spread ...

Your gardening questions answered: ... Europe was in 2007, and the first recorded evidence of it in Ireland was in Dublin in 2018. A very destructive pest of box hedging and box topiary, ...

Planting a hedge Once cuttings are established and have developed a strong root system, they can be planted out into a sunny or partly shaded site. Space plants 30cm (1ft) apart in well-prepared ...