Boxwood features small green leaves that stay through the winter. Varieties include Buxus microphylla japonica 'Winter Gem.' This particular boxwood is known for winter hardiness in Zones 5 through 9.

boxwoods. Cultivars of the Korean and Japanese boxwoods appear to be slightly less susceptible. None of the commercial boxwood cultivars are immune to this disease. Other plants within the ...

dwarf Japanese privet (Ligustrum japonicum “Rotundifolium”) will flourish in USDA zones 7 to 10. The popular dwarf boxwood ...

One of the easiest shrubs to grow in a container, boxwoods will provide your patio with years of beautiful foliage, and will maintain their leaves even over winter. 5. Boxwood (Buxus spp.) ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

Common boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) line either side of the Sunken Garden, flanked by rows of American Beech (Fagus grandifolia) and Crape Myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica).

Japan adopts Chinese written characters. Shotoku Taishi (574-622) begins to shape Japanese society and government more after the pattern of China. He seeks centralization of government and a ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

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