With the Christmas weekend over, you may be getting ready to toss out all the holiday greenery to make a clean start for the new year. But not all of those plants should be put in a pile by the road.

FOREST — Workers chopped up dozens of 150-year-old English boxwoods at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest on Tuesday, removing shrubs planted by the family that owned the historic landmark after ...

Learn about blight resistant boxwood cultivars being developed in Virginia Peggy Singlemann visits Saunders Brothers in Piney River to meet with Bennett Saunders and learn how their 100 year old ...

Q: I have 40+ boxwoods – well established over 25 years. Sometimes winter wind and sun “burn†hit areas of the plants, but they usually spring back with new growth. However, last growing season ...

ATLANTA — An incurable plant disease is spreading throughout metro Atlanta, and recent wet weather has not helped. Boxwood blight is a fungus that’s affecting some of the most popular shrubs in your ...

Most types of boxwood shrubs are cultivars of either Buxus sempervirens, also known as common or American boxwood, or Buxus microphylla, better known as Japanese boxwood. Other boxwood varieties are ...

Boxwood blight, a highly contagious fungal infection, has struck a number of locations in Colonial Williamsburg Historic Area, causing the removal of plants, some of which were more than 100 years old ...

The first step in planning a good landscape is to decide what shape and size plant will work best for each location. Foundation beds around your house require many shapes and sizes of plants because ...