Green Velvet Boxwood
Buxus ‘Green Velvet’ · a rounded boxwood
A hardy, compact boxwood that pairs Korean boxwood's toughness with English boxwood's velvety deep green leaves, and it resists winter bronzing. It shears neatly into low hedges, borders and foundation plantings, and deer and rabbits leave it alone. Morning sun with afternoon shade suits it best, in soil that drains.
- Mature size
- 2.5 × 2.5 ft
- 0.8 × 0.8 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 5a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
Green Velvet Boxwood at its mature size
A mature Green Velvet Boxwood grows 2 to 3 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.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension, The Morton Arboretum.
Through the year
What Green Velvet Boxwood looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Year-round
Dense small glossy deep green leaves.
Photos
Growing Green Velvet Boxwood
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Midwest, and the Plains and Mountain West.
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Good for
- Hedge, small space, foundation planting, specimen, and deer resistant
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Garden hybrid
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Green Velvet Boxwood, that’s about 2.5 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 Green Velvet Boxwood in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other boxwoods
Green Velvet Boxwood
BoxwoodBaby Gem BoxwoodGreen Beauty BoxwoodAll drawn to the same scale.