“It’s time for boxwood-loving gardeners to learn the abbreviation B.M.P. — best management practices — and get with the program. Boxwood needs our informed attention and care to do its job as the indispensable landscape element it has become since the first Buxus were planted in the United States in the mid-17th century. It is hard to think of another plant that lends such year-round structure to a design as boxwood, defining spaces with its evergreen presence, while holding little interest for hungry deer — another big plus. ...”
Boxwood flanks an entrance at Jardin de Buis, or garden of boxwood, in Pottersville, N.J. Although the plants are pruned less severely to help reduce disease pressure from boxwood blight, they still offer evergreen formality.
