Master the art of shaping your evergreen shrub. Boxwood is an incredibly versatile and low-maintenance evergreen shrub that can transform your yard into a year-round focal point. Its rich greenery ...

Boxwoods are hardy evergreen shrubs that are valuable for forming borders for driveways and walkways for formal and contemporary homes. Learn when to trim boxwoods and how best to do it for a neat, ...

Boxwoods need regular trimming and pruning to let in light, prevent fungus, and keep shrubs healthy. Best times to trim are mid-spring and late summer—avoid pruning in fall or winter. Style options ...

Q.: What is the best time to trim boxwood and how much should be trimmed? Also, what about timing on trimming rose of Sharon? Don Hoenes, Union City A.: Assuming the boxwood is several years old and ...

Q: We have mature 5½-foot-tall boxwood that has never been pruned. How do you recommend we go about this? A: First, early spring is the best time to tackle this job -- right before new growth begins.

QUESTION: I’m ready to start working on my vegetable garden, and it’s full of weeds. I know some of it is chickweed because it looks just like the picture you had in your column a few weeks ago. How ...

Q: Several years ago, I planted some 40 English boxwoods along our front brick walkway. Within the last year and a half, some one-third have gradually died. I know that there is a fungus attacking ...

Boxwood is a beautiful bush -- until you shear it and shear it some more. Over time, all that shearing transforms boxwood into a ball of green veneer with a dead center. "This was sheared because you ...

Q: I am getting ready to move back to my home place in Allisonia. It’s in the mountains of Carroll County near Pulaski. The log home was built in 1820, and a little over 60 years ago boxwoods were ...