Expert Tips for Growing and Designing With Beautiful Boxwood

With our boxwood garden ideas, you'll create durable changes to your landscaping. Boxwoods, a type of evergreen, are an elegant addition to a formal garden. Learn how to care for boxwood, so that your boxwood garden thrives.

Hedgers and Edgers

A series of small boxwood balls forms a cottage-style hedge around raised beds in this kitchen garden by garden designer Elizabeth Everdell.

Container Accents

Keep it simple with topiary boxwood in classic terra-cotta containers. In a garden by Denler Hobart Gardens, cones and globes sit side by side to dress up a stone patio.

Tip: Use tall potted boxwood to frame a stairway or path.

Perennial Backdrop

A double layer of boxwood hedges in this Denler Hobart-designed garden give structure to this border of irises, roses, and lady's mantle.

Architectural Shapes

Strong pyramidal forms softened by grassy perennials created an unexpected foundation planting by Jon Carloftis.