The Best Time To Trim Your Boxwoods—And How To Do It Right
The Best Time To Trim Your Boxwoods—And How To Do It Right
2 months ago
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It may be tempting to start pruning your boxwoods in the fall, especially if they’ve gotten big and bushy over the summer months. Here’s why I recommend waiting until the spring - I promise a few more months of shaggy plants is well worth preventing browning and bald patches on your bushes! And if you’re tired of boxwood drama, try Inkberry Holly! It’s native to some parts of the US (including us in the northeast, so rejoice native plant lovers), low maintenance, few natural pests, and many comp
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Yews and boxwoods should be pruned in late winter / early spring, which is March. We want to get the pruning done before the plant starts to put out its new growth in spring. Both yews and boxwoods have latent buds under the bark. So you can cut these types of shrubs back into the area in the center where there are no green needles, and the plant will grow new green needles from those stems as soon as the sun hits the bark. I am a Garden Coach located in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. I do on
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Late winter early spring is the best time to prune boxwoods. And yes, you can rejuvenate a boxwood shrub by cutting down into the dead zone. As long as there’s lots of sun in that area within about a year that shrub will have lots of new growth on the inside. if your boxwoods are not looking healthy, you need to call an arborist to come evaluate them for a disease. There are treatments for plenty of boxwood diseases and I’ve seen many clients have their boxwoods bounced back beautifully. However
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