Box Sempervirens / Buxus
A well-known evergreen favourite of garden designers as a low hedge. A slow growing hedge with intense cordate roots that can be planted in sun or shade in neutral to alkaline soils. Box, Buxus sempervirens can eventually, over time, grow to 6 metres high. Evergreen box hedges are popular and used regularly as low hedges surrounding herbaceous borders or pathways and also for creating patterns in and around lawn areas.
Shown above is a typical planting situation of Box / Buxus sempervirens, bordering a rose bed with a higher hornbeam hedge in the background.
Box / Buxus sempervirens are very long living and if left to grow, can reach in excess of 4 metres. Shown below is the variety; Buxus sempervirens ‘Rotundifolia’.
We supply Box / Buxus sempervirens bushy individual plants and also in our unique Elveden instant hedges.
