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