Narrow beds between the house and sidewalk require compact shrubs ... four to five feet tall and wide. For truly miniature hedges, borders or topiary, “Dwarf English” Boxwood (Buxus ...

The boxwood is valued for its evergreen steadfastness, but we are at that one lovely moment in the year when the monarch of shrubs transforms ... If you wanted tall hedges, you used something ...

A columnar yew or holly, a twisting topiary juniper or a slim boxwood can ... has all mound-y shrubs, it will not look nearly as cool as it would with something tall and narrow." ...

Today, there are many trees that will grow quite tall yet stay rather narrow ... one of a boxwood because of the leaf shape and is grouped botanically with the broadleaf evergreen shrubs.

In the 1990s, a disease, identified as boxwood blight, began affecting and often destroying boxwood plants in Europe ... that spreads wider than it grows tall, measuring about three-feet tall ...