Green Beauty Boxwood
Buxus microphylla var. japonica ‘Green Beauty’ · a rounded boxwood
A mid-sized Japanese boxwood with a rounded habit and rich green leaves, grown for foundation plantings, low hedges and clipped shapes. Japanese boxwood is highly resistant to boxwood blight. Give it well-drained soil and mulch, ideally with some shade at midday.
- Mature size
- 4 × 4 ft
- 1.2 × 1.2 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 6a–9b
- USDA
- Sun
- Part sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to moist
Green Beauty Boxwood at its mature size
A mature Green Beauty Boxwood grows 3 to 5 feet tall and just as 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 Green Beauty Boxwood.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Clemson Extension, The Tree Center.
Growing Green Beauty Boxwood
- Grows well in
- The Southeast, the Plains and Mountain West, and California.
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Good for
- Hedge, small space, foundation planting, shade garden, and fast growing
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Japan
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Green Beauty Boxwood, that’s about 4 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 Green Beauty Boxwood in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other boxwoods
BoxwoodGreen Beauty BoxwoodBaby Gem Boxwood
Green Mountain BoxwoodAll drawn to the same scale.