Green Velvet Boxwoods - IB2DWs - Growth Update Two Years Later - October 2024

Back in the Summer of 2022, I picked up and planted three VERY SMALL Green Velvet Boxwoods around the base of a flowering pear tree IB2DWs.  These were right at the break in the bed where our gravel (Bluestone chips) runs from our driveway back to the yard.   When I say 'very small', I mean it:  they were in 1# nursery pots.  I've planted a number of 1# boxwoods over the years and I've been ok with the fact that they take time to mature.  

That's the case with these three.  They're not fast-growers, but they sure have grown up.  

This post tracks 28-months of growth.  That's 2.5 growing seasons (1/2 of 2022, all of 2023 and 2024).  

They grown from about six-inches tall and four-inches around.  To, what you see here, below.  These are now more than a foot tall and close to a foot in diameter.  The first photo shows two of them.  Then second photo shows the third one.  Note all the suckers coming out of the flowering pear tree that need to get cut down.  

These were planted with intention - to bring some structure and four-season interest to this bed.  I've longed for clustered evergreens (see this post), and while this is just three, as they keep growing, they'll have the type of impact I'm seeking in our landscape.  Could I put a few more IB2DWs?  And...the front yard?  Yes.  

That's something for next year.  But...what I should be doing right now is making that bed.