Wintergreen Boxwood Flowers

The finely textured oval leaves are lustrous and dark green.

Wintergreen boxwood flowers. Unfortunately many kinds of boxwoods are susceptible to an incurable fungal disease called boxwood blight. One of the most versatile shrubs boxwoods bring year round color to the garden. Japonica wintergreen an easy korean boxwood plant to grow and love. Its dark green foliage makes the wintergreen boxwood a very attractive border and landscaping shrub. Japonica wintergreen the wintergreen boxwood has small oval leaves that do well with or without pruning. This shrub is also known as a korean boxwood. Boxwoods are a classic garden shrub first planted in america in the mid 1600s they re equally at home as accents hedges topiaries or in containers they re also deer resistant so their popularity has skyrocketed in recent years.

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. The new growth appears a lighter shade of green then transitions to a full dark color. Their evergreen foliage brightens dreary winter landscapes provides structure to both formal and informal gardens and can be shaped into tightly clipped geometric forms or whimsical shapes. Spreading by underground rhizomes wintergreen grows as a creeping groundcover that grows about 6 inches tall and 12 inches wide. Bell shaped white flowers appearing in june and july edible red.