True Dwarf English Boxwood - Buxus sempervirens

A perfect tree for the miniature garden, it can be grown indoors or outdoors. The True Dwarf English Boxwood can be brought indoors for the winter if you can a bright, sunny spot for it inside.

Indoors: provide plenty of light and add some light compost or fertilizer each spring around the edge of the container – keep any fertilizer away from the trunk and inner roots where it may absorb too fast and burn the plant.

Outdoors: may bronze or turn a bit orange in winter if it is grown in full sun. The color will turn back to green when the temperatures warm up. The color change does not mean that it is failing or dying and any sort of treatment may injure the plant. Give the plant more shade to lessen the color change.

• Growth: 1 to 3” per year
• Upright broad shape

• Cold Zones 6-8 or hardy to -10F
• Heat Zones 8-6

• Light: Full sun to part shade
• Shape: Globe shape

• Indoor Care: Boxwoods can be grown INDOORS with full, indirect bright light and regular water

• Pruning: Can be pruned into a topiary shape
• Trim outside branches to keep bushy OR
• Let outside branches grow, the inner leaves will die back, leaving a branching structure that will look like a natural miniature tree or shrub

• Water: Regular water
• Don’t let it dry out between watering sessions
• Well-drained soil
• Fertilize lightly each spring
• Comes in a 4” diameter pot

Versatile:

• Slow-growing, dark green form of the common boxwood
• Can be used in a variety of scales and many forms of miniature gardening
• Prune at any time, snip the stem just above a set of leaves to hide the cut
• Shear it into a fun topiary shape (trim no more than 1/3 of at a time)
• Prune it to keep its 'tree' look by taking off some of the lower leaves to show more trunk

NOTE: In spring when the weather warms up OR if this plant is coming from our cold nursery to your warm house, it will emit a strong odor. This is normal. It is the oils coming out of the leaves that is causing the smell. The oils will dry out in a couple of days and the smell will go away.

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From Mary in MD:

Janit thank you so much you have been amazing! Hope I get a chance to meet you and see your work along the way- you have been a huge inspiration! 

Thanks again!

Cheers,
Mary