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- Boxwood flowers - cutting only after flowering
- Buchs is a sought-after bee pasture
- Do not cut off flowers
- Does flowering influence growth?
- What do yellow leaves mean during flowering?
- Tips
The boxwood flowers extremely rarely
Boxwood flowers - cutting only after flowering
Buchs is one of the most popular garden shrubs and is used for many purposes: As a molded wood in the garden or tub, as part of a border planting, as Beetbegrenzung or as a hedge plant. If the plant is not cut back too much, it will bloom with inconspicuous yellow flowers. These can be very numerous and cover the whole plant.
Buchs is a sought-after bee pasture
However, the flowering occurs only in older boxwood, which are already at least ten years old and are also only slightly cut. The flowering period is in the months of March to May and depends heavily on the weather conditions. Following a lush flowering in the previous year is often followed by little or no formation of flowers in the following season. Nonetheless, a thriving book is a coveted insect pasture, with bees, bumblebees, butterflies, and other humming gardeners feasting on the nectar.
Do not cut off flowers
For that reason, you should never circumcise blooming books, but instead enjoy the hungry visitors. Only after flowering do you reach for the pruning shears and remove the budded shoots - unless you want to let the then developing capsule fruits ripen and reap the seeds. These are suitable for the cultivation of new plants, the method is quite cumbersome. Boxwood is very easy to propagate through cuttings - which occur again and again in cutting measures.
Does flowering influence growth?
Occasionally, the rumor haunts gardener forums that flowering adversely affects plant growth. This claim is justified by a growth stop of the plant concerned during the flowering period. In fact, the book does not grow at this time or only slightly, but catch up quickly. As a result, flowering has no negative impact on shoot growth.
What do yellow leaves mean during flowering?
However, if the plant gets striking yellow leaves during flowering, there are often serious problems behind it. In many cases, it suffers from a lack of nutrients or water as both the nutrient and water requirements increase during flowering. But before you take countermeasures, it is best to first check the actual causes.
Tips
Yellow leaves on the book can have many causes. Sometimes the plant is infested by the boxwood thinner, a small butterfly whose caterpillars eat up entire stocks.