Box
By Lou Paun
Box (Buxus) - This beautiful bush grows wild on some of our southern chalk hills, and is much cultivated in gardens as an edging, and also in shrubberies.
Box
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common name for the Buxaceae, a family of trees and shrubs with leathery evergreen leaves, native to the tropics and subtropics of the Old World and to Central America.
Box hedges and topiary are often affected by box sucker, although the damage caused is not necessarily significant.
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Box Elder
(Acer negundo L.)
LEAVES: Opposite, compound, with 3-5 coarsely and irregularly toothed leaflets, each 2"-4" long and 2"-3" wide.
Acer negundo
(Box Elder)
[L.] Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Sapindales
Family: Aceraceae
Family Description: Maple Key Characteristics: Tree grows up to 20 M ; compound (usually 3 leaflets, but can be up to 7) ...
Box Range Zieria - profile
Scientific name: Zieria buxijugum
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
National conservation status: Endangered ...
- Box leaved azara
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A large shrub or elegant small tree that can reach up to 5m (16ft), this azara has frothily dainty foliage that is a bright and shiny green. The leaves are tiny, neat and oval.
Common Box
Buxus sempervirens 'Suffruticosa'
Genus: Buxus
Species: sempervirens
Cultivar: 'Suffruticosa' ...
Box-Leaved Barleria is a shrub 5-6 ft tall, with strong spines under the leaves. Flowers are purple-blue, produced in whorls towards the upper part of the stem. The species name buxifolia means leaves like Boxwood tree.
Black Box
Scientific Name: Eucalyptus largiflorens F.Muell.
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Family: Myrtaceae ...
H. 'Music Box' is a bush type annual sunflower bearing multiple flowers on each plant. In the photo, the flowers are barely above the pumpkin foliage that snuck into the dwarf sunflower bed. This cultivar is suitable for pot culture.
Impatiens Candy Box (Impatiens walleriana)
The most intense colors all come together in Burpee's latest mix, with a surprise twist of just the right touch of pretty pastels. The final effect is pure eye candy.
Japanese Holly, Box Leaved Holly
Used to decorate many a home in winter, these are perhaps the most popular of all ornamental berry plants. Their showy berries often last for several months and attract birds.
Closely related to Eucalyptus, brush box (also called Brisbane box) is a tough, useful tree with warm-colored smooth bark becoming rough toward the base.
( Button Box Zinnia )
The cultivar, 'Button Box' has dahlia-like flowers with fully double flowerheads. 1.5inches across. Plants grow 10-12 inches high and wide. Wide range of colors.
BOX ELDER
Acer negundo
General Notes
Grows best in fairly rich, moist, well-drained loam. Tolerates smog. Suckers and reseeds profusely. Has Fragrant Bark. SelecTree lists 3 cultivars of negundo: (1)'elegans' (2)'flamingo' (3)'variegatum' ...
BOX-LEAF AZARA. From Chile and Argentina. Named from Greek micro, very small, and phyllon, a leaf. In Chilean (Mapuche) it is Chin-chín. It was introduced to Northern cultivation about 1861 by R. Pearce for Veitch nursery of England.
In a box
An indoor window-box massed with flowering plants of the same type and in the same tones will bring a wonderful splash of colour. Place plants in the box in their pots and surround with peat which is kept constantly moist.
false box Celastraceae Paxistima myrsinites (Pursh) Raf. symbol: PAMY
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12 (25)m, White Box is a medium sized tree widespread in SE Australia (New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia).
Box Honeysuckle lon-ISS-er-a ni-TI-da
Broadleaf evergreen shrub, 4-5 ft (1.2-1.5 m) high, dense. Leaves opposite, simple, ovate to roundish, 6-16 mm long, entire, rounded at base, 1 mm petiole, glossy (nitida: glossy) dark green.
Box Elder is common along lower elevation streams, sometimes growing to 35 feet tall and 3 feet in diameter. Often there are many small branches at the base and along the knobby, distorted trunk.
Box Elder
Acer negundo
Small to medium-sized tree with short trunk and broad, rounded crown of light green foliage. Height: 30-60' (9-18 m). Diameter: 2 1/2' (0.8 m). Leaves: opposite; pinnately compound; 6" (15 cm) long; with slender axis.
Box-elder (Acer negundo) saplings have leaves that can look very similar to those of poison ivy, although the symmetry of the plant itself is very different.
The Box Huckleberry, a Rare Shrub
This evergreen shrub, which usually grows by cloning itself, can cover acres of land. Read more about this vegetation that's akin to the blueberry.
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Sweet Box
(Sarcococca hookeriana humilis)
Low, creeping evergreen. Tiny, sweetly scented flowers in winter.
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Buxus (Box, Boxwood)
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After the box is filled with the bonsai, a mulch (sphagnum peat moss mixed with perlite or DRY leaves) can be placed over the trees for added protection.
A shallow box or tray used to start cuttings or seedlings.
foliar feeding
Fertilizer applied in liquid form to the plants foliage in a fine spray.
The 'Jewel Box Series' of Cristate Group celosias are dwarfs with very unusual showy flower heads.
Usage
Use celosias, especially the Plumosa types, in masses in the annual flower bed, or for edging in front of taller flowers and perennials.
Trees: Box Elder (Acer negundo), Red Maple (Acer rubrum), Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides), American Elm (Ulmus americana)
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Plant Window Box Herbs
Grow a windowbox filled with herbs such as parsley, globe basil, thyme, sage and chives. After danger of frost has passed, fill the box with a soilless potting mix, add a time release fertilizer and keep it well watered.
It is of the Box family, but nothing like box shrubs. Pachysandra's foliage is even nicer than the March & April blossoms & it is really for the foliage it is grown, although as you can see the white blossoms do add a pleasant spring touch.
Acer negundo. Box Elder. Male Flowers.
Acer negundo. Box Elder. Female Flowers.
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Most of the big-box retailers are offering an assortment of orchid species, but one of the most beautiful and easy to grow is the moth orchid.
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Pruning Planter Box. By Robert Calvert. 1987 #1, pp 14-18
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Create a nesting box 7 inches by 7 inches by 17 inches tall with a 2 1/2 inch hole fifteen (15) inches above the floor. Place nesting box on a pole or tree six to twenty feet off the ground. Add 2 inches of soil or sawdust to the bottom of the box.
Rooting in water African violet leaves may also be rooted in water using a dark-colored container such as a tablet bottle or a film cassette box of an appropriate size.
Box-elder
Acer negundo L.
Family: Maple (Aceraceae)
Flowering: April-May
Field Marks: The box elder has opposite leaves divided into 3 or 5 or 7 leaflets. It differs from ashes by its green twigs and paired fruits.
As timber, the particular and most valued qualities of the Oak are hardness and toughness; Box and Ebony are harder, Yew and Ash are tougher than Oak, but no timber is possessed of both these requisites in so great a degree as the British Oak.
With the cover open, the manifold is visible inside the box. The box is open-bottomed, set about 5 inches deep in the ground, with a layer of small gravel at the bottom.
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Style an eerie autumn window box
Inspired by these black artificial branches, Paul Zammit ended up creating this eerie yet elegant autumn window box.
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Nombres relacionados: Al bakkes (Marruecos), Boix (catalán), Boj (castellano), Boje (castellano), Box (inglés), Boxux sempervirens (sinónimo), Buchsbaum (alemán), Buis (francés), Buje (gallego y/o portugués), Bujo (castellano), Buxaceae (familia), ...
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The leaves were like those of box, but smaller; they grow in clusters round the stalks, by intervals of an 1in space, more or less; from every cluster shoots forth two sharp pliant spines.
Also used in pot, tub or flower box on patio, terrace or at entrances. Blooms all summer long. Plants prefer warm temperatures and bloom best after several weeks of above 80° F temperatures.
Roses are best propagated after the first bloom of the season, usually in late May or early June. A shallow rooting box approximately 6 inches deep with ample drainage should be constructed with a removable lattice shade about one foot above the box.
In mid September, poinsettias will need complete darkness every day from 5 pm to 8 am so put a cardboard box over the plant to provide the necessary "short day".
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For the soft at heart, fill this felt 'box' (Island Tina from Woolly Pocket; $29; aplusrstore.com) with frilly Crassula muscosa.
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