Rear Foundation Boxwoods - Fall 2019 Update
Above is a look at the four boxwoods that are planted right outside of our Kitchen windows next to the foundation. I last posted a photo of these four shrubs back in April of this year when I was taking off the Winter Burn from them and shaping them a little bit. They've really grown quite a bit and green'd up on their tips in a nice way. A lot of boxwoods in our neighborhood took hard hits from Winter Burn this past Winter - including a few of ours in front - but these seem to have totally recovered nicely. The two in front are now larger than the two in back. I was initially thinking of clipping these into nicely shaped orbs, but now that I've seen the Jacques Wirtz-inspired hedge of boxwoods outside of the Fedex World Headquarters , I'm thinking I can grow these together and make a more cloud-like shape out of all four of them. The other thing to note in this [ Garden Diary ] post is the other plant in the photo. No...it isn't a weed. Well, not a