Design the front yard with boxwood

A front garden as if painted - this is how it works with boxwood

With boxwood hedges, you can give your front yard lively shapes, as if they came from a painter's easel. Thanks to its pronounced cut tolerance, the evergreen ornamental wood can even be used to draw lettering in the bed. Buxus sempervirens 'Blauer Heinz' with a compact growth up to a maximum of 50 cm in height is perfectly suited for artistic purposes. How to realize your design idea:

• Make a true-to-scale drawing of the course of the hedge
• Trace the course of the box hedge in the bed with ropes
• Dig small planting pits along the marking at a distance of 15-20 cm
• Enrich the excavation with compost and horn meal
• Pot, plant and water the box trees

A little patience is required until the evergreen trees gather to form a dense, compact hedge. The annual growth is limited to a leisurely 5 to 10 cm. From the second or third year onwards, you give the box trees the desired shape by pruning them and steer the growth in the desired direction.

Boxwood sculpture as a leading figure - an elegant replacement for the house tree

The space for the front yard of the semi-detached house is often so tight that even for small ones Trees the available space is insufficient. Thanks to box trees, you don't have to do without a floral figure. The cut tolerance of the noble shrub enables the shape cut to a furious garden figure.

The specialist trade has all types of templates ready for you. Put this over the boxwood and simply trim any excess branches with rose or sheep shears. It is easy to recut every 4 weeks between April and September. It is important to note that a remnant of the fresh green always remains below the cut for a new shoot.