Plant: Freedom - Boxwood
Boxwood · Buxus NewGen Freedom 'SB 300'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A vigorous NewGen boxwood with beautiful glossy green foliage that grows fast, at three to six inches a year, reaching about 3.5 feet tall and wide at fifteen years and 5 feet by 5 feet at twenty five. The habit is rounded and slightly taller than wide, more uniform and tighter than older cultivars, and the foliage may bronze in winter in full sun or exposed sites. NewGen reports good resistance to boxwood blight with proper care and very strong resistance to boxwood leafminer, though all cultivars stay susceptible under extreme conditions. It takes sun, part sun or shade and works as a medium specimen, medium hedge or foundation plant.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 5 ft tall and 5 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-8
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A vigorous NewGen boxwood with beautiful glossy green foliage that grows fast, at three to six inches a year, reaching about 3.5 feet tall and wide at fifteen years and 5 feet by 5 feet at twenty five. The habit is rounded and slightly taller than wide, more uniform and tighter than older cultivars, and the foliage may bronze in winter in full sun or exposed sites. NewGen reports good resistance to boxwood blight with proper care and very strong resistance to boxwood leafminer, though all cultivars stay susceptible under extreme conditions. It takes sun, part sun or shade and works as a medium specimen, medium hedge or foundation plant.
- Light
- Morning Sun, Afternoon Sun
- Pruning
- Demands yearly or twice yearly pruning to hold its form and keep the centre from opening up.
