Green Mountain Boxwood
Buxus ‘Green Mountain’ · an upright cone-shaped boxwood
An upright, cone-shaped boxwood that stays full to the ground, the top choice for clipped cones, pyramids and medium-height formal hedges, and hardier in cold winters than most. Deer and rabbits leave it alone. Give it soil that drains and shelter from winter wind. It's moderately susceptible to boxwood blight.
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- Mature size
- 4.5 × 3 ft
- 1.4 × 0.8 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 5a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part sun
- Water
- Medium to moist
Green Mountain Boxwood at its mature size
A mature Green Mountain Boxwood grows 3 to 5 feet tall and 2 to 4 feet wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension, The Tree Center, The Morton Arboretum.
Through the year
What Green Mountain Boxwood looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Year-round
Dense small dark green leaves in a pyramid.
Photos
Growing Green Mountain Boxwood
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Midwest, and the Plains and Mountain West.
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Good for
- Hedge, small space, foundation planting, and deer resistant
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Garden hybrid
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Green Mountain Boxwood, that’s about 3 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 Mountain Boxwood in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other boxwoods
Boxwood
Baby Gem BoxwoodGreen Beauty Boxwood
Green Mountain BoxwoodAll drawn to the same scale.