Boxwoods (Buxus spp.) are one of the most common shrubs in landscapes throughout Greater Columbus. This deer-resistant, broad-leaved evergreen shrub is typically used in foundation plantings, as a ...

When a deadly new blight disease showed up in Connecticut and North Carolina in 2011, gardeners feared it might spell the end of our landscape-favorite boxwood. Although the disease has since spread ...

For more than 150 years, Volutella blight has been one of the most common diseases of the loved and iconic boxwood plant as well as other plants in the family, including pachysandra and sarcococca.

Our poor boxwoods can’t catch a break. Already threatened by a deadly blight disease and several lesser evils, America’s top-selling shrub is now in the crosshairs of a newly arrived bug called the ...

A new disease that attacks boxwood shrubs has been showing up in south Louisiana the past few years. Beginning in fall 2011, plant pathologist Raj Singh, the LSU AgCenter’s “plant doctor,” began ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va.CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia agricultural officials are warning about a fungal disease that attacks boxwood shrubs. The state Department of Agriculture says in a news release ...

ATHENS – For home gardeners who are seeing brown areas in their landscape trees or hedges where they should be seeing green, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension can help. Wet winters and ...

Nothing brings a sense of formality to a garden like boxwood. But thanks to common gardening practices, it’s vulnerable to disease. By Margaret Roach It’s time for boxwood-loving gardeners to learn ...

One more column regarding boxwoods, which has been a hot topic among my colleagues, gardeners, nurseries, and landscape companies. Don’t rip out all your boxwoods unless you know exactly what if wrong ...

Boxwoods have been in recorded history since 4000 B.C. when the Egyptians first used them in formal gardens. They came to North America from Europe and Asia in the mid-1600s. The American Boxwood ...