New Emerald Knoll™ Boxwood is Ideal #1 Landscape Shrub

New Emerald Knoll™ Boxwood is a low-growing, fine-textured, utilitarian, broadleaf evergreen shrub that is indispensable in the landscape and that fulfills every promise of the genus.

A recent survey by Nursery Management Magazine [27(8):2011] revealed that 4,000 landscape professionals voted boxwood their number one shrub.

The most outstanding characteristics of new Emerald Knoll™ Boxwood are its low, mounding, spreading shape and rich, emerald color that holds throughout winter and does not bronze. Emerald Knoll™ is extremely hardy (to zone 5!) and is very resistant to diseases and insects such as the leaf miner that plagues American and English boxwoods.

Emerald Knoll™ is ideal for the nurseryman because it produces additional flushes of growth during the season and is also perfect for landscapers and consumers, reaching a nice size in a reasonable time and then holding its “mushroom” shape. This new variety is a selected mutation of the ultra-slow growing Kingsville Dwarf Boxwood, but is a good grower and two or three times as large, quickly reaching its mature stature of 18 to 24 inches tall by 36 to 48 inches wide.

Emerald Knoll™ Boxwood is a great foreground variety and can outline a terrace, flower border, walkway or parking area, or act as a background to showcase color plantings against its fine texture. It is resistant to deer pressure.  

Originator Bob Head of Head Ornamentals, Inc. in Seneca, SC is a member of the Garden Debut® consortium of growers and breeders, retailers and marketers. For more information about Emerald Knoll™ Boxwood other Great New Plants™ brought to gardeners by Garden Debut®, visit www.gardendebut.com. To set-up an interview, contact Alicia O'Donnell toll-free at 877-663-5053 or alicia_odonnell@greenleafnursery.com.