How to use it creatively

The ancient Romans planted boxwood

Boxwood already played an important role in the gardens of wealthy Greek and Roman citizens more than 2000 years ago, who at that time preferred a bed with a low one Box hedge framed. This custom was spread in the course of the conquest campaigns in the occupied territories in Western and Central Europe. The boxwood finally found its way into the European world Garden artthan in the 16th In the 19th century, the gardeners of Versailles replaced the frost-sensitive cypress with the hardy book - the model of the The French royal court unfolded its effects all over Europe, because rich nobles as well as wealthy citizens and peasants imitated this fashion quickly after. Especially during the baroque period, gardens designed with books became modern, a tradition that has continued to this day in typical cottage gardens.

Boxwood is extremely hard

The box tree combines numerous advantages that are important for a garden and useful plant. These include, for example:

• grows on almost any soil
• is undemanding and easy to care for
• is extremely easy to cut, can be cut into any shape
• offers countless design options
• is evergreen
• shows a particularly dense growth

Last but not least, the wood of the boxwood is extremely hard, which is also due to the very slow one growth is due to the plant. Even the Neanderthals used boxwood sticks for digging. Today the wood is still used for the construction of musical instruments - for example for violin making - for chess pieces or for the production of artistic wooden figures.

The best ideas for a use in the garden

There are countless ideas for garden design with Buchs:

• Box trees as an opaque, high or low hedge
• Box hedge as Border
• Solitaires cut into shapes as eye-catchers or planted as an avenue, for example along the main path
• various shapes possible: Bullets, Spirals, Pyramids, small trees, animal figures ...

Buchs is winter and frost hardy, although it originally comes from the Mediterranean region. You can either plant it in the garden or cultivate it in large containers.