Baby Gem Boxwood
Buxus microphylla ‘Gregem’ · a rounded boxwood
A dwarf Japanese boxwood with tiny leaves that grows into a naturally dense, neat mound, so it needs less clipping than most. It makes a fine low hedge, edging or foundation planting, and Japanese boxwood is highly resistant to boxwood blight. Grow it in sun or part shade, in soil that never stays wet.
- Mature size
- 4 × 4.5 ft
- 1.2 × 1.3 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 4a–9b
- USDA
- Sun
- Part sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to moist
Baby Gem Boxwood at its mature size
A mature Baby Gem Boxwood grows 4 feet tall and 4 to 5 feet wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Drawn as Green Velvet Boxwood, sized as Baby Gem Boxwood.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Clemson Extension, The Tree Center.
Growing Baby Gem Boxwood
- Grows well in
- The Southeast, the Plains and Mountain West, and California.
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Good for
- Hedge, small space, foundation planting, and shade garden
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Japan
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Baby Gem Boxwood, that’s about 4.5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Baby Gem Boxwood in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other boxwoods
BoxwoodBaby Gem BoxwoodGreen Beauty Boxwood
Green Mountain BoxwoodAll drawn to the same scale.