Throughout this season we've had multiple customers come into our store with concerns about their boxwood shrubs. Since they are evergreens, boxwood has found a place in almost every landscape in ...

Steve Castrogiovanni, an arborist and landscaper, says three key issues in our region are impacting boxwood shrubs. Leafminers, which are little flies that burrow through leaves, and boxwood blight, ...

Boxwoods (Buxus spp.) are one of the most common shrubs in landscapes throughout Greater Columbus. This deer-resistant, broad-leaved evergreen shrub is typically used in foundation plantings, as a ...

Some of these harmful pests cause severe damage via brown, blistered, or swollen leaves, while others lay eggs that ...

A new disease that attacks boxwood shrubs has been showing up in south Louisiana the past few years. Beginning in fall 2011, plant pathologist Raj Singh, the LSU AgCenter’s “plant doctor,” began ...

* What it is: Virginia-based Saunders Genetics has been leading the effort to develop blight-resistant boxwood varieties since the deadly Cylindrocladium fungal blight showed up in 2011. So far its ...

ATHENS – For home gardeners who are seeing brown areas in their landscape trees or hedges where they should be seeing green, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension can help. Wet winters and ...

Boxwood blight, a highly contagious fungal infection, has struck a number of locations in Colonial Williamsburg Historic Area, causing the removal of plants, some of which were more than 100 years old ...

With the Christmas weekend over, you may be getting ready to toss out all the holiday greenery to make a clean start for the new year. But not all of those plants should be put in a pile by the road.

Q: We planted a young flowering kwanzan cherry tree close to our one-story ranch style house a few years ago since it looked good there in a group of some little holly bushes under one of our windows.