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boxwood house plant Common Boxwood – Plant DetectivesCommon Boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) Common Boxwood is a classic evergreen shrub valued for its year round structure, dense foliage, and strong ability to bring order to the landscape. Its rich green leaves and naturally rounded habit make it especially useful in foundation beds, hedges, formal borders, and traditional garden designs where a clean, finished look matters. Because it can be shaped, clipped, or left more natural, it works well in both
Common Boxwood (Buxus sempervirens)
Common Boxwood is a classic evergreen shrub valued for its year-round structure, dense foliage, and strong ability to bring order to the landscape. Its rich green leaves and naturally rounded habit make it especially useful in foundation beds, hedges, formal borders, and traditional garden designs where a clean, finished look matters. Because it can be shaped, clipped, or left more natural, it works well in both highly structured layouts and softer mixed plantings. This is a strong choice for gardeners who want a long-lived evergreen that provides dependable form, steady color, and a reliable focal point in every season.
Distinctive Features
This broadleaf evergreen shrub forms a dense, rounded to broad-rounded habit with small, glossy dark green leaves that remain attractive through the year. Over time, it can become much larger than many compact modern boxwood cultivars, which gives it added value where a fuller evergreen presence is needed. Its dense branching and fine texture make it especially effective for clipping into hedges, screens, and formal shapes. The year-round foliage gives it lasting landscape value, helping tie together plantings in both traditional and contemporary garden settings.
Growing Conditions
- Sun: Plant in full sun to part shade, with some protection from harsh afternoon sun and winter wind in more exposed sites.
- Soil: Provide moist, well-drained soil and avoid constantly wet or poorly drained conditions.
- Water: Water regularly during establishment, then maintain moderate supplemental watering during dry periods.
- Zones: Hardy in USDA Zones 5 to 8.
- Mature Size: Commonly reaches about 5 to 15 feet tall and wide in shrub form, with older specimens potentially becoming larger.
- Habit: Grows in a dense, rounded to broad-rounded form and can develop into a large shrub or small tree over time.
Ideal Uses
- Focal Point: Use it as a focal point in foundation beds or formal garden layouts where its dense evergreen mass can anchor the planting year-round.
- Hedges: Plant it in rows to create classic evergreen hedges with a clean, structured appearance.
- Foundation Plantings: Use it around entryways, porches, and front beds where evergreen structure is needed in every season.
- Formal Gardens: Add it to symmetrical or clipped garden designs where boxwood helps reinforce order and permanence.
- Screening: Let it grow larger where a broad evergreen screen or visual divider is needed.
Low Maintenance Care
- Watering: Keep soil evenly moist during establishment, then water during prolonged dry periods if needed.
- Pruning: Prune lightly after the last spring frost if shaping is needed, since tender new growth can be damaged by late cold.
- Mulching: Apply mulch around the root zone to conserve moisture and protect the shallow roots from heat and drying.
- Placement: Shelter from strong winter wind and intense reflected heat to help reduce bronzing and foliage stress.
- Air Circulation: Maintain good airflow and thin interior growth occasionally if needed to support long-term plant health.
Why Choose Common Boxwood?
- Evergreen Structure: Dense green foliage gives the landscape year-round form and visual continuity.
- Classic Style: It is one of the defining shrubs for formal, traditional, and high-structure garden designs.
- Versatile Habit: It can be clipped, shaped, or left more natural depending on the look you want.
- Screening Potential: Its larger mature size makes it useful where more evergreen presence is needed.
- Long-Term Value: It is a long-lived shrub that can become a lasting part of the landscape framework.
- Deer Resistance: It is generally considered deer resistant, which adds practical value in many landscapes.
Common Boxwood is an easy way to add lasting structure, evergreen color, and a more finished look to the landscape without relying on short-lived or seasonal plants. Its dense habit and flexible use make it one of the most dependable shrubs for creating order and continuity across the garden. With full sun to part shade and well-drained soil, it offers dependable performance year after year. It is a practical evergreen for adding texture, structure, and a reliable focal point to the landscape.
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★★★★★ 5
All's fair in Like and War
Format: Hardcover
Is Mark Zuckerberg responsible for exacerbating the killing fields on the South Side of Chicago? What is China's Golden Shield Project and what might it mean for you? Did Michael Flynn have any good ideas before his fall from grace serving in the Trump administration? Read this book and you'll get the answers to these questions and many more.
This book takes a notion with which most readers are likely already familiar - the internet has graduated from its nascent status as a series of tubes connecting nerds and defense contractors to that of an ineffably complex globe-gobbling organism engaged every hour of every day in the instantaneous distribution of information spanning all spectra of human activity - and combines it with one not so well established in the popular imagination - we (or, at least, everyone who uses the internet) are all potential foot soldiers, willing or not, in the online and offline wars still raging as well as those yet to come.
Written in succinct, snappy prose, the book tells the story of the internet from its peculiar vantage point at the intersection of social media and military conflict with its arguments firmly based in factual and expert analysis. Those seeking to validate a particular political slant or ideology should look elsewhere.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2018
★★★★★ 3
Insightful but troubled
Format: Hardcover
This book could have been so much more but it fell short. The book does capture a new phenomenon sweeping the world. The growth of social media is that phenomenon. The book does a good job chronicling the growth of social media and its impact on a general scale. Through that growth opportunities were created. The book does a good job of listing how people, groups and countries exploit these opportunities. They advance their respective agenda various ways on social media. I loved the pages which talked about how AI can create fake news with all of the authenticity of an eye witness account. The book lists impacts of these trends with crystal clear words. You can see impact clearer than any other source out there.
The negative is the bias of the authors. Who the authors voted for in the last election screams out with every chapter. They use the topic as a club to bash republicans, President Trump, and conservatives. They miss how Democrats were playing the same games as Trump before Trump. This bias causes a reader to lose the message and dangers through politics. David Plouffe, the Obama campaign manager in his book "The Audacity to Win" said he used social media in 08 election. Funny how these people ignore those events to focus on what Republicans do. I also think their constant drum beat of what the Russians do creates a false election that they stole the election. The authors forget the failed policies of Hillary.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2019
★★★★★ 5
Great book!
Format: Paperback, Format: Paperback
Great book. I really appreciate that it was written. It’s very interesting, informative and unfortunately the themes are very relevant at this time. Would definitely recommend the book to anyone interested.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2025
★★★★★ 5
Documents the influence of American Eugenics on the Holocaust
Format: Hardcover
American Court decisions, and what some call the genocide of Native Americans, was one major source of inspiration behind Nazi policy against both the Jews and people that the eugenic scientists considered inferior races. American policy also was very influential in inspiring the Nazi goal of lebensraum, expanding the Germanic population and reducing, and making slaves, of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians and other Eastern populations). Following Hitler's rise to power, Lebensraum became an ideological goal of Nazism and provided for them justification for the German territorial expansion into East-Central Europe. After all, the Americans decimated the naïve population of America so, the Nazis reasoned, how is that different from the decimation the native population of Eastern Europe? Some even referred to Ukrainians and other Slavic people as "Indians."
Reservations for Native Americans was a factor justifying the concentration camps for Jews, only a few of which were death camps, and this is one reason why the Nazis got away with the Holocaust for so long. It was not until after the war when the Soviets liberated the death camps that we knew for certain the extent of the genocide goal of the Nazis. The main extermination camps were Belzec, Sobibór and Treblinka, which served as "death factories." Auschwitz II–Birkenau was a combination concentration/extermination camp.
Anti-Semites, eugenicists and racists inspired by Darwinism in the U.S. helped inspire those in Germany, and vice versa. The US was “a global leader in ‘scientific’ eugenics,” so naturally the German scientists would have to rely on American research and law (page 8). The author covered only briefly the well-documented important influence of Darwin and mentioned evolution only in connection with the evolution of racism (p, 114). Conversely, the eugenics idea and movement was discussed 28 times, such as page 8 where the author documents that eugenics was the basis of both the Nazi Germany and American discrimination laws and policy.
The support of the U.S. to Nazi German went well beyond that. U.S. bankers and industry, even the weapons industry, invested heavily in the Nazis war machine. Nazis borrowed ideas from U.S. books, such as the 1916 American best seller racist book titled The Passing of the Great Race and other propaganda, such as that developed in World War I. The U.S. refused to admit significant numbers of Jewish refugees, such as in 1939 the United States refused to admit over 900 Jewish refugees who had sailed from Hamburg, Germany, on the St. Louis to the West. Denied permission to land in the United States, the ship was forced to return to Europe where many died in Nazi German camps. The most famous example is the State Department rejected Anne Frank's attempt to enter the United States (pages 53,116, 149).
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Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2017
★★★★★ 4
Interesting and Informative
Format: Kindle
Interesting and informative. This is a book about German political leaders and how they perceived the United States, its culture and it’s laws. Although it touches on the American culture and legal system, it is mostly comprised of quotes from German writers, lawyers and politicians. It’s worth reading if you are interested in how the German goverment evolved the laws supporting the eventual persecution of its Jewish citizens.
This is a book about Germany and makes some high level generic observations on American Eugenics and Race Laws. It is informative and makes some interesting observations on our race laws, but if you’re more interested in the United States race law history, I would recommend something more focused the United States.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2023