Common name:Japanese Boxwood
Botanical name:Buxus microphylla japonica
Japanese Boxwood is often used as a hedge. It is compact, with small bright green leaves. It can reach 4'-6' tall and wide or be kept smaller through pruning. It can be sheared to shape. It does better in areas with milder winters.
Common name:Kwanzan Japanese Cherry
Botanical name:Prunus serrulata 'Kwanzan'
This vase-shaped, deciduous tree is 30' high and 20' wide, with double, rosy pink flowers and wonderful fall colors of bronze orange to orange red.
Designer: Styrbing Arboretum
Photographer: GardenSoft
Practice grass-cycling by leaving short grass clippings on lawns after mowing, so that nutrients and organic matter are returned to the soil.
Group plants in your garden according to their water needs (hydrozone).
Drip and other smart irrigation delivers water directly to roots, allowing no excess water for weeds.
