Why Plant Green Pillar Boxwood?
An evergreen exclamation point for your landscape! The Green Pillar Boxwood is a stunning columnar shrub that grows to heights of about 8-10’ and widths spanning 1-2’. This evergreen’s tall and slender stature makes for a phenomenal accent piece in those skinny and hard to fill places. The Green Pillar Boxwood offers year round interest with fresh, bright glossy green foliage that emerges in spring before transitioning to the classic dark green of the Boxwood. This cultivar is more cold hardy than other varieties and tends to not burn (turn brown) in the winter, making this a must have for those with a neatly manicured landscape in the north! Consider adding the low maintenance, adaptable and svelte Green Pillar Boxwood to your landscape today!
How to use Green Pillar Boxwood in the landscape?
The Green Pillar Boxwood not only offers a tall and slender shape that provides visual interest in those hard to plant locations, but as an evergreen, you are graced with year round coverage! Offering tolerance to deer, rabbits, and drought, the Green Pillar Boxwood is also low maintenance, making this a perfect addition to any property. Utilized in beds and borders, capable of growing in containers, and great for accents or foundation planting you won’t run out of places to put them! One more phenomenal attribute to this evergreen shrub is the ability to transform the Green Pillar into a topiary piece adding intricate design and flow to your home.
Planting Zones
Hardiness Zone: 5-9
How To Plant Green Pillar Boxwood
Green Pillar Boxwood prefers a location that offers full sun to partial shade. The Green Pillar Boxwood offers adaptability to most soils, allowing you to plant in most locations that offer well drained soil. Although this shrub does offer drought tolerance once established, it would be wise for the health of the shrub to water during those periods. Keeping a tight growth habit means minimal to no maintenance is required, allowing you to enjoy this shrub with minimal effort.
How To Water
When first planted, we recommend giving your Green Pillar a deep and thorough watering. For ongoing care in the first year, we suggest watering at a minimum of twice a week, making sure to quench your shrub's thirst. Once established, the Green Pillar Boxwood does provide tolerance to drought, however, it would be within your best interest to supplement watering as to not stress your shrub too much. We recommend keeping an eye on your local weather and watering accordingly during periods of high heat or drought to ensure the happiness of your shrub.
How To Fertilize
While planting, we recommend applying the Bower & Branch Elements Starter Plant Food. This will ensure your plant has all it needs for a healthy growing season! For ongoing care, it's best to feed in spring.
How To Prune
Due to the tight and upright growth habit of the Green PIllar, pruning is almost non existent! If you would like to shape your Boxwood, you should do so after the last frost. If you prune before then, you run the risk of burning any new foliage that may emerge.
How Does Shipping Work?
Bower & Branch Trees, the real BIG trees, don’t fit in a box! Our big trees, sizes XL and bigger, require expert delivery and care, that means our extra-large trees are shipped on Bower & Branch trucks. We are the only ones who know how to ship our big and bigger trees and plants with tender loving care. We deliver your trees and plants directly to you. Ask Bower & Branch about planting services – we'd be happy to assist in installation.
*For Big trees and Shrubs, Size XL and bigger: Review our Seasonal Shipping Timelines and Policy here.
Your trees and plants are grown across the United States at various Bower & Branch Growers. Depending on your location, your plant orders may be shipped from various locations. Please expect orders with multiple items to be delivered over a number of days as a result. Orders made up of numerous items or selections will not arrive at your home on the same day.
Shipping Delays:
From time to time, Bower & Branch Growers may determine to delay order shipment based on various factors for plant health. Weather in your region, as well as, where your plants are grown, is always considered when shipping. Extreme weather conditions may delay some or all of your order. Bower & Branch allows our Growers to make final shipping decisions based solely to benefit your trees and plants’ health and success.
How Does Sizing Work?
The size of our trees have nothing to do with the container size like you may find elsewhere–big doesn't mean just height - it’s also vigor, age, and overall health. Other online retailers are going to tell you that a plant is a seven gallon, that means nothing to your tree or plant (or you.)
Our trees for sale online are graded on large, x-large, and even bigger sizes. This is because our trees are sized by their age—the higher the letter, the more mature the tree. The age determines the trees’ overall height, size of the trunk and the overall branch density.
All of these characteristics are what you should be looking for when choosing a tree for immediate impact and instant curb appeal. Our extra-large tree and plant sizes are sure to wow you and your neighbors!
See the size guides below.
