BOTANICAL: Buxus sempervirens 'Vardar Valley'

PRONOUNCED: BUK-sus sem-per-VY-renz

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COMMON: Boxwood, Vardar Valley boxwood. BLOOMS LIGHT ZONE Greenish-yellow Full sun to light shade 5 - 8 SIZE: 2 ft. - 3 ft. x 4 ft. - 5 ft. TYPE: Evergreen shrub CLIPPING/SHEARING: As this is a very slow grower frequent clipping is not necessary. To maintain a healthy plant, hand shearing is advised as electric shears tend to rip the stems. Remember to keep the shears sharp. PRUNING: Highly prized for hedges because its small medium green leaves can be sheared into precise shapes, or a neat, formal, low hedge. Prune early spring to allow the new growth to harden off. USE: An excellent subject for low, formal edging or hedge around the lawn, perennial bed or herb garden. Carefully shaped it can be a container specimen. SOIL: A moist, but well drained organic soil. COMMENTS: This boxwood cultivar is a dense, compact, many-branched, broad, mounded evergreen shrub. Slow annual growth to 1.5-inches per year. Greenish yellow flowers (separate male and female flowers on the same plant) appear in spring. Flowers are sparse and insignificant, but fragrant. The small, round to obovate, medium green leaves have a blue hue.