Green Velvet Boxwoods - Under Espalier Linden Trees - One Year Later - May 2024

Last Summer, I added eleven Green Velvet Boxwoods (1# size) at the feet of the horizontal cordon espalier Green spire Linden trees in our backyard - up against the fence.  I bought them small, due to the cost of adding so many of them in one spot and they didn't take up much space.  You can see what they looked like last June in this post.  Spring is when my boxwoods put on growth, so I thought it was interesting to see how much they had grown in a little less than a year.  These were put in at the end of June - with a biosolids and topsoil mix - and I'm thinking put down roots all of 2023.  This Spring - 2024 - the tips of the shrubs have leapt up and out, adding light green tips to the (still) small evergreen shrubs.  

Below is what they look like currently - in the middle of the Spring flush of new growth:

There are seven in the back row and four in the front.  They may NOT look like much (on their own, in this photo), but here (below) is an animated gif showing the before/after:  one photo showing the day they were planted and the other showing their current state.  The Lindens are MUCH more bare (still leaving out), but it is hard to miss the boxwood growth going on below them:

This area needs a better edge - I'm thinking retaining wall of some sort.