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- Front garden design with boxwood - How to realize your ideas
- A front yard, as if painted - this is how it is possible with boxwood
- Boxwood sculpture as a leading figure - shapely replacement for the house tree
- Tips
Box trees can be cut and shaped as desired
Front garden design with boxwood - How to realize your ideas
With boxwood you draw decorative garden pictures in your front yard. Whether as a shapely, evergreen enclosure, spectacular sculpture or elegant guardian of the entrance - box trees open up a broad spectrum of creative ideas. Let yourself be inspired here for your individual design plan.
A front yard, as if painted - this is how it is possible with boxwood
With boxwood hedges you give your front garden sweeping shapes, as if they came from a painter's easel. Thanks to its pronounced cut tolerance, you can even draw lettering in the bed with the evergreen ornamental wood. Perfectly suitable for artistic use is Buxus sempervirens, Blue Heinz 'with a compact growth up to a height of 50 cm. How to realize your design idea:
A bit of patience is needed until the evergreen trees gather in a dense, compact hedge. The annual increase is limited to a leisurely 5 to 10 cm. From the second or third year, you give the box trees the desired shape with a pruning and control the growth in the desired direction.
Boxwood sculpture as a leading figure - shapely replacement for the house tree
The space for the front garden at the duplex is often so tight that even for small trees, the existing space is insufficient. Nevertheless, you do not have to do without a floral figurine thanks to box trees. The Schnittverträglichkeit the noble shrub allows the shape cut to a furious garden figure.
Stencils in all variants are available for you. They put them over the boxwood and simply cut over any overhanging branches with a scissors for roses or sheep. Between April and September a re-cut every 4 weeks is possible. It is important to note that below the interface there is always a residue of the fresh greens for a new shoot.
Tips
Evergreen boxwood is perfect for hiding garbage cans in the front yard. From the boxwood species Buxus sempervirens you create a slender, high hedge, which does not allow any prying eyes. A well-groomed appearance is preserved if you make a shape cut in May.