When you need a plant to delineate a formal bed, shape into a topiary or form a dense privacy screen, Japanese box (Buxus microphylla japonica), or boxwood, is your plant. Depending on how you prune this broadleaf evergreen, it can be formal or informal, allowed to soar to 20 feet or remain a compact 2 feet tall.Click to see full answer. Then, is Japanese box fast growing? Japanese Boxwood In full shade the plants are water thrifty and can grow all summer with no supplemental water. Although boxwoods are slow-growing shrubs, Japanese box is the fastest growing variety, reaching its mature size in three to five years.Additionally, how high does box hedge grow? Clipped box hedges can be anything up to about 3 metres tall. In old box trees the growth rate eventually reduces and a one to two hundred year old box tree may be around 5-10 metres tall. Most of the named varieties of buxus sempervirens, and the other species of buxus grow rather more slowly than buxus sempervirens. Similarly one may ask, how big do Japanese boxwoods grow? about eight feet tall How far apart do you plant Japanese box?An excellent choice for hedges, borders, general garden planting. Japanese Box loves a clip and they can made into many decorative shapes for pots or the garden and topiary. Plant 40-50cm apart for low hedging/borders and about 80cm-1m apart for a taller hedge.
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