box hedges
Formal garden edging
Box hedges are hedges made from box, a dense evergreen shrub with small leaves that responds well to shaping.
The slow growth and tight foliage make box ideal for formal gardens, topiary, and low borders: The garden was divided by immaculate box hedges.
Also called boxwood hedges.
- privetShrub for formal hedges
- topiaryShaped shrub sculpture
- yewToxic conifer, flexible timber
- evergreenRetains foliage year-round
- formalFollowing strict protocol
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- British gardeningEnglish gardens, cottage gardens, walled gardens, Kew Gardens, Chelsea Flower Show
- formal gardensparterre, topiary, topiaries, fountains, terraces
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Boundary structure between properties
chain-link fence · stone wall · brick wall · iron gates · concrete barrier
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Natural grassland with native blooms
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