Once again, thank you for your lovely video! Your garden is such a dream. Just want to mention that in temperate climates such as Southern California (I'm in zone 10b), Little Ollie dwarf olives are an amazing boxwood alternative. Drought tolerant, well behaved, takes well to pruning, and evergreen.
Hi Linda thank you for the information I love boxwood and I’m working on it.i love this video and I will watched over and over again I just love your garden.
Good morning, Linda and thank you for all of the information you supplied I’m this video! I’ve been thinking of doing a hedge around one of my rose gardens, and this will help tremendously. I just wanted something different around that bed, as I have boxwood in an adjacent bed. Hope you’re having a wonderful morning! ~ Sherri
I too a gardening class at the coastal Domaine du Rayol in the South of France where there’s a problem with boxwood moth and they too recommended pineapple guava as an alternative. They have a beautiful hedge of them. The flowers are delicate stunning and delicious too!
Hello Linda.In NZ we call your pineapple guavas,Feijoas.They give fruit through the winter.The flowers are pretty with red centres.Little spikey bristley type ones.Prettier than it sounds.We use them as hedges also.I hope you have great luck with them.
Yes, we go mad for feijoas here in NZ...at least some of us do. There's always a glut of them in Autumn and we're always looking for new recipes to use them up. My favourite seasonal fruit ❤
Thank you so much for introducing some new varieties of distylium. I have been growing distylium for quite a few years in South Georgia, zone 8B. I have grown the variety called “Vintage Jade.”It is a wonderful plant that I have found will grow in both sun and shade, at least in South Georgia, where it probably appreciates the shade. It is an easy plant requiring very little pruning and having no significant insect or disease problems that I have discovered. I also have found that it does well in both the ground and pots. It is an excellent choice for low maintenance and easy care. I’m looking forward to finding the new varieties that you mentioned on your site today. By the way I also love boxwoods. I garden on about a fourth of an acre and have over 100 boxwoods in my yard. I use the Japanese boxwood, which is probably the best one for our area. I have tried winter green and winter gem, but for some reason chunks of the plant will suddenly die. Hope you have fun with the distylium. I don’t think you will regret using it.
Great information 10! Thank you so much for sharing your experiences. It definitely sounds like it has great potential and I will check out vintage Jade as well!
Hi Linda loved your video today so interesting today talking about the lovely boxwood. l love green on green to it looks so good together like you say if you choose the right plant. And the plants you have shown us today are so beautiful.
Linda, I just planted a hedge of Cinnamon Girl Distylium which is a smaller variety in my raised rock wall beds. I love the dark green leaves and the burgundy leaves will look really pretty with the rock. The reason I chose them is I didn’t want to have to prune them like I have to prune my many Dwarf Yaupon Holly shrubs. Also I didn’t want the hedge to get too tall. Loved this video!
Thanks, Linda! I am newly developing my interest in evergreens. One small non-boxwood I love is a Paloma Blanca Euonymus. The foliage is a lovely dark green with new foliage emerging as white. It is beautiful! I have several in part sun locations that seem to do well. Very low maintenance and small enough for any space.
Here, in CA, a good alternative looks to be dwarf Myrtle. But it may be susceptible to deer. It’s not quite as tight as boxwood, but has lovely white flowers in early spring.
You’ve inspired me to try topiary and I found a lovely book on Amazon written by Susan Berry entitled Container Topiary. It came today and it’s a wonderful supplement to your videos!
It is not a look a like, but a use a like. Yew, grows in sun and shade, you can clip it like you want. Has a lot of variety. And it regrows even if you cut it hard back.
Help I manufacture white pine roping aka garland some customers want boxwood which I don’t understand it smalls like cat pee what alternative can I use that is similar but in the greens business gotta be a quick grower I’m in 7b n have plenty of space thanks
I have two boxwood shrubs in pots, they have been on patio part shade on one side, but one side gets a lot of sun and heat and has died. Should I just throw them out or is there a way to salvage them.
The spray and give them a gentle organic fertilizer, top dress with compost, give them a prune, and make sure to keep turning them so they grow evenly on our sides. If they are getting really burned in the heat of the summer, consider moving them to a shade your location for that time.
Hello Linda - can not wait to get my hands on the Distylium. Very pretty. Hoping you could tell me the name of the little, white moth that is all over my garden. You mentioned it not too long ago, but I have not been able to find the video. I live just south of you in Lindsay, Oklahoma. Enjoy watching all your videos. Thanks
Here’s a good article on cabbage moths: www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/cabbage/protecting-your-cabbages-from-cabbage-maggot-cabbageworm-and-cabbage-moth.htm Thanks!
What about Lonicera nitida as an alternative? Commonly known as the Dwarf Honeysuckle, this evergreen is a popular hedging plant for two reasons : it has dense deep green foliage and it grows rapidly (up to 1m in 12 months). This fast growing plant will rapidly form a good quality hedge with a minimum of training. Prefers a full sun to part shade position in well drained soil. Fast and vigorous, yet small and dense, this little-leaf shrub is a powerhouse plant for low hedging, topiary, box balls, bonsai and the like. Evergreen, deer-proof ...
Linda, Great video!!! I wanted to make a list for evergreens to add to my evergreens that go along my fence. I ordered from SLPlants. I want to get ready for fall planting and maybe grass I'm the girl always asking about art. turf that has the dog that runs around in my dirt backyard. May turn her rut into a pathway but not sure how to do that either. Mulch and gravel (pea)??? I wish you would so some how to design videos!!! I already signed up for you TV channel. I am going to school with you as my teacher!!!! So much to learn so little time!!!! PLEASE stay cool!!!!! Thanks for all you help and kindness!!! Your Zone 8 Texas fan, Marian
Such a helpful video! I have been researching this and landed on yaupon holly for my area (Phoenix AZ 9A) so was super glad to hear you mention it. I think I that I read it prefers acidic conditions, however, which I definitely do not have - do you know if this is something I should be concerned about? Thanks again! 🌱
Hi Linda, you make boxwood trimming look so easy. As it should be of course. Ten minutes ago I was hanging out my bedroom window with an electric trimmer, trying to reach the boxwood that had grown above mid window. I live in SC zone 7B. (I didn’t get the first wolf whistle maybe because I’m 80 years old). I don’t know what kind it is but I do know it’s old and very woody. My friends and I cut it down to about 2 ft. a few years ago and it came back huge. What should I do with it? I’m on a busy road and tend not to pay much attend to the front too much. Cars whiz by and I’m tempted to continue trying to concentrate on my side and back yard gardens. What do you think? I’m not in a neighborhood as such so I don’t think it matters. I LOVE your RU-vid videos. You’re a breath of fresh air. Thank you !,
How many are there? A whole hedge? Could you remove it completely or would it look unsightly? Your hanging out a window with electric sheets terrifies me for you!😱
I picked up at 7 gal Antartica boxwood on clearance last summer. It had been dropped from its pot and burned by the sun, but it is doing well now. I potted it into a very large pot last year with Biotone and put it in a sunny location, but somewhere it is somewhat protected from the blazing Zone 7 afternoon sun. It has done well and put up new growth later than my other boxwoods (Wintergreen, Green Mountain and Gem). Do you have any particular tips on growing this boxwood. I have not tried shaping it yet, I simply pruned out most of the damaged stems when I repotted it last fall.
Just wondering? I've gone to you're LVTV site to sign the wait list, but nothing comes up when I click on it. Also, there is nothing on the "sign in" click either. Sorry to bother you with this, but it just seemed odd since it's coming up soon! Thanks!!
Ok Stewart’s fault with sound at one point 😆! Love boxwood, can you talk about my Rosemary taking over my front garden! What can I do to contain it. I’m in zone 7b NC
Did you read the description on that video? It’s where I explained we were trying out new equipment and if the shakiness would bother you to just turn away. There was a lot of good content in it though so we didn’t want to discard it. I think that’s the only one that was that shaky :-)
