Add timeless structure and year-round greenery to your landscape with Buxus ‘Green Velvet’, a hardy evergreen boxwood prized for its dense compact form and rich green foliage. This versatile shrub combines the cold hardiness of Korean boxwood with the classic deep green color of English boxwood, creating a durable low-maintenance plant that stays attractive through every season.

Its naturally rounded shape and small glossy leaves make it ideal for hedges, foundation plantings, borders, topiary, and formal garden designs. Easy to shape and maintain, ‘Green Velvet’ remains lush and full without becoming leggy, making it a favorite for both traditional and modern landscapes. You will receive a healthy container-grown plant similar in size and condition to the one shown in the listing photos.

You will receive:
✔️ 1 live Buxus ‘Green Velvet’ shrub
✔️ Grown in #2 nursery container
✔️ Healthy, rooted evergreen boxwood
✔️ Dense compact landscape shrub
✔️ Secure packaging for safe arrival

Growing Information
Common Name: Green Velvet Boxwood
Botanical Name: Buxus ‘Green Velvet’
Plant Type: Evergreen shrub
Growth Stage: Established container-grown plant
Sun Requirements: Full sun to partial shade
Soil: Well-draining soil; adaptable to most soil types
Watering: Moderate; avoid overly wet conditions
Mature Height: 1–2 feet
Mature Width: Approximately 2 feet
Growth Rate: Slow to moderate
USDA Zones: 4–9
Container Friendly: Yes

Care Tip: Light pruning in late spring or early summer helps maintain a crisp formal shape if desired. Mulching around the base helps protect roots and retain soil moisture during extreme weather.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.