Shady corners of a garden can provide a headache at the best of times. When that shady spot is only suitable for containers it means two factors you need to consider, they need to be happy in pots and ...

January is a time for planning, and I want to introduce you to a winner for year-round beauty: the Wintergem Boxwood (Buxus microphylla japonica). This evergreen shrub is the perfect anchor for your ...

January is a time for planning, and I want to introduce you to a winner for year-round beauty: the Wintergem Boxwood (Buxus microphylla japonica). This evergreen shrub is the perfect anchor for your ...

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Costa visits a NSW nursery that specialises in topiary. Scott Williams has been working this Peats Ridge property for 37 years, originally transforming what was a lettuce farm into its present format.

Just when I thought my volunteer cherry tomato plant would continue to thrive into its second year, it became infested with spider mites and had to be removed. Last September, it had sprouted in the ...

I have a 15-year-old box hedge (Buxus sempervirens). In the past five years I’ve fertilised it with chicken pellets around the roots each March and also sprayed it with TopBuxus every five weeks from ...

Think “boxwood” and you probably conjure up images of Colonial gardens and intricate hedges. Boxwoods (Buxus spp.) are among the oldest nonnative plants grown in America but, fortunately, are not ...