Green Mountain Boxwood - Four Years Later - December 2025

I planted a small one-gallon Green Mountain Boxwood shrub in October of 2021 in the bed behind the Tree Swing Oak Tree.  Two Winters later (2023), I posted this photo about how this shrub had totally bronzed-out.  When I planted it, I noted that this is pyramidal in form and that's what I was drawn-to when buying it.  Now, four years later, we're starting to see that upright, pyramidal shape.  

Below is a photo showing the current shape of this Green Mountain Boxwood:

Thinking about this being in the ground for four-full-growing-seasons, it sure feels like this has been slow-growing.  Looking back at the original post with the description, that checks out. 

I planted two more Green Mountain Boxwoods in 2023 back by the Firepit, but like this one (above), they have been pretty slow-growing, too.  

The bed where this solo Green Mountain Boxwood is set for changes this coming year.  It sits in the back of the (new) Pizza Oven bed, while (at the same time) was planted in the *front* of the old bed in one of the 'garden edits' that I posted about in 2024.  

I called the front of that (new) bed one of my early priorities in 2024, and put it as #4 on my 2025 to-do list, but never planted it.   That should change in 2026.