Plant your boxwood in fertile potting mix and water thoroughly.
Boxwood plants in containers.
Plant your boxwood shrubs in containers that are fast draining and big.
One of the easiest shrubs to grow in a container boxwoods will provide your patio with years of beautiful foliage to your patio and will maintain their leaves even over winter.
Leaving space at the top keeps water from spilling out.
Hand water each boxwood so that water runs from the drainage hole.
There are essentially only two species available the european boxwood and the japanese boxwood.
The best boxwood varieties for containers are green mountain green velvet green gem green mound.
How to plant boxwoods in containers.
Boxwood needs very little water when established but when watered make sure water runs out the bottom of the container to make sure all soil in the pot has been moistened.
Boxwoods make great container plants.
I grow shrubs a green mountain boxwood and three shrub roses in containers but they winter in the unheated garage.
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Green mound is hybrid with a natural rounded shape for your large containers.
When planting use tree and shrub soil not heavy topsoil.
What s not to love.
It s not fancy but i think the green mountain boxwood that lives in a container in front of the garage strikes just the right note.
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Not sure if the pot your plant in has drain holes in the bottom.
But there are dozens of cultivars of both species both of which are fairly easy to grow and are hardy to zone 5.
Koreana has glossy foliage that grows no higher or wider than about 3 feet.
Boxwoods have wide reaching shallow roots.
Plenty of boxwood varieties make great potted plants.
Fill with soil around the root ball to within a half inch of the rim.
For example sprinter boxwood buxus microphylla bulthouse is a perfect container boxwood growing to about 2 to 4 feet tall and wide.
You want your pot to be as wide as the plant is tall and even wider if you can manage it.
It is important for the boxwood not to be growing in saturated soil.