How to Plant a Boxwood Hedge

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[WyseGuide]

Love this! We did an entire boxwood wall and stone wall last summer with our friends from Monrovia! Love the addition of a soaking hose to make life easier. Thanks for sharing!

[mckeon]

What distance would you place winter gem apart please

[FieldsAboveBT]

Those things get 4’wide bubba, gonna be arm wrestling each other for eternity

[batshitcrazy]

Oh I see you show people that they should be put a half a foot apart in order to get them to buy more plants. Or perhaps indicating what type of boxwood would explain the spacing? I hope the latter.

[joecheese]

I planted 20 winter gems a few weeks ago and about 6 of them have had to be replaced already. The sun is strong in my area and I'm thinking that's the cause. Is there something i can do to help the hedges so they won't keep dying on me?

[rjk]

are these winter gem? or Japanese green beauty?

[maxenra]

You know, I just purchased several wintergreen boxwoods today from Lowes. Planted them according to their labeling which said 3-4' spacing. Sure doesn't look like that in this video. Am I wrong to assume your video is incorrect in spacing or the labeling on the plant? I'd love to know an answer so I can fix it before its too late. Thanks.

[mybestideas]

It always amazes me how people need to get a string to be able to plant something, where for the most the eye does the trick.

[cattaleyaaa.n]

is the soil supposed to be wet, soft?

[row]

Wow someone that actually knows how to plant stuff. Rare these days

[soulaesthete]

This would have been more helpful had the video not been so fast.

[nkel]

what a silly silly man. 5 minutes to have a line?? eye balling would be fine. did you really do that?? i will give you my speed square to decide their uprightness, make sure they are 90 degrees plumb hhaahaaaa