Best Boxwood Shrub Plants in 2026

It is fully rooted in the soil and can be planted immediately upon arrival, weather permitting. Planting and how-to-care instructions will arrive with shipment.

For best results, plant in USDA Zones 5-8. Mature height is 1-2ft, mature spread is 3-4ft.

Spreading growth habit. Stays low to the ground as it spreads up to 4 feet. Shiny tiny green foliage.

2-4 ft. tall and wide at maturity

Tolerates sun or shade

Hardy in zones 5-8, be sure to check your USDA zone to ensure success

Grown, packaged and shipped exclusively by Florida Foliage. An excellent evergreen shrub for small hedges. Among the hardiest of the small-leaved boxwoods, the rich green foliage can acquire a golden bronze hue in cold winter zones, but is one of the first to become green again in spring. Makes a wonderful addition to formal gardens, providing year-round interest.

This is the classic hedge plant. Its dense, evergreen growth makes it perfect for shearing into a small, formal hedge. Ideal for defining different spaces in the garden or for a tidy foundation cover-up. It is especially lovely against red brick. Use as a partition to divide your front yard or driveway from your neighbor's. Also beautiful as background foliage. Creates lovely topiaries, particularly in cone shapes if planted where it snows. An excellent plant for parterres and hedge mazes

Winter Gem is a round-shaped cultivar that is relatively vigorous. It tolerates a wide range of sites and uses. New foliage emerges a lime-green color and transitions to a deep, glossy green. It has a tendency to bronze when exposed to direct winter sun but the bronzing will quickly disappear in spring as temperatures rise and as new growth emerges. ‘Winter Gem’ is very similar to the cultivars ‘Wintergreen’ or ‘Faulkner’. Deer resistant.

All pictures are of fully grown plants. Sizes shipped are in the title and description.

CALIFORNIA ORDERS WILL BE CANCELLED - This is due to CA state regulations and is beyond our control.

Zone: 5-9 / Mature Height: 3' Spread: 3' / Growth Rate: medium / Full Sun - Part Shade - Full Shade / Soil: well-drained

Slow growing broadleaf evergreen shrub with green foliage

USDA zones 4-9

Plant in sun to part shade

Your order contains (2) Boxwood ‘Wintergreen’ in 2.5 quart pots and a detailed planting guide.

Pairs well with flowering plants for a classic English garden look.

Easily pruned to any shape with mature size is 4’ tall and 5’ wide.

An excellent evergreen shrub for small hedges. Among the hardiest of the small-leaved boxwoods, the rich green foliage can acquire a golden bronze hue in cold winter zones, but is one of the first to become green again in spring. Makes a wonderful addition to formal gardens, providing year-round interest.

This compact evergreen shrub produces inconspicuous white flowers in spring. Among the hardiest of boxwoods, in the winter, it maintains dark green velvety foliage. Matures to 3-5 feet. Performs best as a shrub for small hedges.

This evergreen shrub needs a regular water schedule to ensure the growth of a mature root system. The first year of growth requires watering daily. After the mature root system is established, watering is needed weekly, except during a drought, watering is needed regularly. Mulching is recommended to detour weeds, and to keep the moisture content high. During plant maturity pruning is necessary to encourage branch development.

This compact evergreen shrub produces inconspicuous white flowers in spring. In the winter, its oval leaves turn golden to bronze. Matures to 4-6 feet. There are stunning shapes this shrub may be shaped into like globes, pyramids, and screens.

This evergreen shrub needs a regular water schedule to ensure the growth of a mature root system. The first year of growth requires watering daily. After the mature root system is established, watering is needed weekly, except during a drought, watering is needed regularly. Mulching is recommended to detour weeds, and to keep the moisture content high. During plant maturity pruning is necessary to encourage branch development.

Makes an excellent medium to large hedge, and appears to be quite easy to grow. Like all other boxwoods, prefers cool, moist well drained soils as well as a small amount of shade to give some protection from scorching summer sun.

Grown, packaged and shipped exclusively by Florida Foliage. This compact evergreen shrub produces inconspicuous white flowers in spring. In the winter, it maintains dark green velvety foliage. Matures to 3-5 feet. Performs best as a shrub for small hedges.

This evergreen shrub needs a regular water schedule to ensure the growth of a mature root system. The first year of growth requires watering daily. After the mature root system is established, watering is needed weekly, except during a drought, watering is needed regularly. Mulching is recommended to detour weeds, and to keep the moisture content high. During plant maturity pruning is necessary to encourage branch development. Once mature, occasional shearing is needed to maintain desired s

Wintergreen Boxwood is a vigorous, winter-hardy cultivar that is ideal when a medium to large foundation plant is desired. It is great for use in medium-sized hedges and is very tolerant of pruning or shearing. It has a tendency to bronze when exposed to direct winter sun but the bronzing will quickly disappear as temperatures rise in spring and as new growth emerges. Deer resistant.

A staple landscape plant with a mature size of 3-5' H x 3-5' W.

Provides deep and rich hedge protection for privacy screening and well as noise barrier from more busy streets or trafficked areas.

With a petite leaf this foundation plant requires little pruning. Or prune it into a topiary to amaze your neighbors.

LIVE PLANT: NewGen Freedom is a relatively vigorous, rounded cultivar that is slightly taller than wide. It was selected due to its high tolerance of boxwood blight and resistance to boxwood leafminer

READY TO PLANT: This Boxwood has beautiful glossy medium green foliage. Its habit is more uniform and tighter than ‘Wintergreen’ or ‘Winter Gem’ thus making it an excellent choice for many formal and residential landscapes. It can be planted immediately upon arrival, weather premitting

POPULAR USES: Its vigor helps it create an attractive plant quicker than many cultivars but it also makes annual pruning a must. With annual pruning, this plant makes a fabulous specimen

Starter Plants are grown in trays and therefore will be SHIPPED WITHOUT A POT - ( SCROLL PICS TO SEE SIZE OF ACTUAL PLANTS FOR SALE )

A true dwarf growing only 1-2 feet tall and wide. The Dwarf English Boxwood is so versatile that it can be combined with virtually any color palette you choose

Dwarf English Boxwoods create striking borders with hardly any effort on your part

Buxus microphylla japonica is one of many beloved perennial bushes used for landscape edging, lawn edging, garden edging and outdoor garden decor. Each order includes one hand selected Japanese boxwood in a 3-gallon nursery pot.

These dwarf evergreen bushes and shrubs live happily growing beside a border tree or privacy trees, spring flowers, ground cover plants, evergreen flowering plants, other evergreen hedge plants and fast growing bushes for privacy.

Grow these perennial plants within landscape edging, alongside outdoor garden decor, in flower bed edging, in garden edging, and near other flowers and plants. Pair these real plants with pruning shears to give as gardening gifts for plant lovers.

EVERGREEN: Soft Touch Holly is dense, yet soft shrub with glossy green foliage and a round growth habit. Along with the very similar boxwood shrubs they are often used to maintain green areas in home gardens and landscapes throughout the world. Soft Touch Holly is fast growing shrub and reaches 2-3' H x 3-4' W once mature.

ATTRACTS BIRDS: Soft Touch Holly is fast growing shrub and reaches 2-3' H x 3-4' W once mature! In the spring small, very white flowers will bloom and once the cooler weather arrives it will bear glossy blackberry-like fruits. Birds and butterflies are attracted to both the berries the dense foliage of this dwarf holly shrub.

PRUNING: Soft Touch Hollies tolerate pruning well if you want to keep them a certain size or shape. Heavy pruning is best reserved for late winter or early spring. You can certainly let your Soft Touch Holly grow naturally with no pruning as well.

This tiny oval green leaves of the boxwood are perfect to create a shaped topiary or bonsai for your plant collection or home landscape

They are pollution resistant and low maintenance making them ideal houseplants for the city and urban settings on decks, porches, patios, and windows

The small leaves of the boxwood provide an interesting contrast to succulents and large leafed plants like Monstera, Pothos, Croton, and Snake plants

Green Mountain Boxwood - Quart Pots - Beautiful Shrubs Live Plant

Zone: 4-9 / Mature Height: 5' / Spread: 3' / Growth: medium / Spacing: 3 - 4' / Full Sun - Part Shade - Full Shade / Form : pyramidal / Usage: background, foundation hedging, corner piece

Size shipped: 6-8 inches tall, well branched in quart pots with soil-less media & 9 month slow release fertilizer.

Plant Type: Evergreen Shrub

Plant height: 3 - 4 Ft.

Plant width: 3 - 4 Ft.

CANNOT SHIP TO AZ or TN - Due to Federal Restrictions, Green Velvet Boxwoods are unable to be shipped to Arizona or Tennessee. If you live in one of these states and order this plant, your order will be canceled.

MULTIPLE TREES - Your Green Velvet Boxwoods will arrive in 10 1-gallon pots. Once established, it can mature to a height of 4-6 ft., a popular choice for hedges, border plantings, and edging.

EASY TO GROW - Cold hardy down to -10 degrees, this shrub can be grown almost anywhere in the country with ease. It is very impervious, ideal for rural and urban areas alike.

【High Quality】: All seeds packaged are intended for the current and the following growing seasons. All seeds are stored in a temperature controlled facility that is free of significant amounts of moisture.

【High Germination Rate】: Our Wintergreen Japanese Boxwood Hedge seeds have highest germination rates under optimal growing conditions. You wont need to worry about duds and seeds not germinating. Best practices to help you on your gardening journey.

【PEACEFUL PLANTING】: Find your zen by growing, trimming, and caring for your own bonsai for years to come. One of the most peaceful hobbies for women, men, or anyone with a green thumb.