Use boxwood to draw decorative garden images in your front yard. Whether as a shapely, evergreen enclosure, a spectacular sculpture or an elegant guardian of the entrance - boxwoods open up a wide range of creative ideas to you. Get inspiration for your individual design plan here.
How do I design my front garden with boxwood?
Front garden design with boxwood is achieved through hedges for sweeping shapes, sculptures as leading figures or as privacy screens. Buxus sempervirens 'Blauer Heinz' offers compact growth for creative ideas. After planting comes the topiary cut for the desired design.
A front garden as if painted – How to do it with boxwood
With boxwood hedges you can give your front garden sweeping shapes as if they came from a painter's easel. Thanks to its excellent pruning tolerance, you can even use the evergreen ornamental tree to draw lettering into the bed. Buxus sempervirens 'Blauer Heinz' is perfect for artistic use with a compact growth up to a maximum height of 50 cm. How to realize your design idea:
- Create a scale drawing of the hedge route
- Use ropes to trace the course of the boxwood hedge in the bed
- Dig small planting pits at a distance of 15-20 cm along the marking
- Enrich the excavation with compost and horn meal
- Unpot, plant and water the box trees
A little patience is required until the evergreen trees come together to form a dense, compact hedge. Annual growth is limited to a leisurely 5 to 10 cm. From the second or third year onwards, you can give the boxwoods the desired shape by pruning and control the growth in the desired direction.
Boxwood sculpture as a guiding figure – an elegant replacement for the house tree
The space for the front garden of a semi-detached house is often so limited that there is not enough space even for small trees. Thanks to boxwood, you don't have to do without a floral figurehead. The pruning tolerance of this noble shrub enables it to be cut to form a furious garden figure.
Stencils in all variations are available from specialist retailers. You put these over the boxwood and simply trim any protruding branches with rose or sheep scissors (€35.00 on Amazon). Between April and September, recutting every 4 weeks is possible without any problems. It is important to note that a remainder of the fresh green always remains below the cut point for new shoots.
Tip
Evergreen boxwood is perfect for hiding garbage cans in the front yard. You can create a slim, high hedge from the boxwood species Buxus sempervirens that does not allow any prying eyes. A well-groomed appearance is maintained if you carry out a topiary in May.
