boxwood rescue project

[Berra]

This is a boxwood (i think?) I rescued from a place where neighbors can leave plants or soil to be taken to recycling plant. It had been grown in large shallow pot, and then just lifted and driven to this dump site. It had been sitting in full sun a couple of days when I cut away enough roots so I could transport it home. I just planted it in our garden and it survived. Roots were about 1x1 m (10 square feet) and 15 cm (6 inches) deep. Almost no thick roots, very fine ones

Question: Does it look to be in okay health judging from the pics, or does it appears to be suffering?

Question2: If okay health, could I place it in a training pot spring 2023, or should I keep it in the ground for longer?

 

[BrianBay9]

Wow, didn't know boxwood would survive in Sweden's climate. Looks healthy enough, with a substantial base. Do you plan to protect it in winter? Since you have to move it I'd put it in a pot immediately.

 

[Berra]

Oh I forgot to say it has been in the ground of our garden a year now. I suspect it is buxus sempervirens which is winter hardy here. I do not plan to protect it other than maybe put leafs on the ground

 

[Berra]

This rescue project has started looking sad recently. Yellow tint on some leafs near the apex and white leaf edges. Seasonal changes or do I do something wrong? No frosty nights here yet

 

[Berra]

 

[BrianBay9]

The white edge varigation is pretty common with boxwood.

 

[Berra]

The white edge varigation is pretty common with boxwood.

Ok, good to know, thanks. The yellow/bronze looking leafs though? Nutrient deficiency or something? I didn't feed this tree at all this summer. I could apply PK fertilizer now during autumn

 

[Ply]

Looks like sunburn.

 

[Berra]

2023 spring: plant in its first container

 

[Berra]

Now: much smaller pot, the pot fits within the previous pot

I have been brutally chopping above and below ground, this species just seems to backbud like crazy whatever I do

 

[Berra]

... And a little cutback and light wiring

 

[queenofsheba52]

Wow, @Berra , very nice work! You rescued a real beauty. Isn't it great when gorgeous material drops in to our lives, and the rescue is successful?

Here in West Michigan, boxwoods just barely survive. I've had several that I have babied with complex winter protection, but there always comes that few days where the weather is windy and below zero F and they just die. I have a neighbor across the street who has several boxwoods in a very protected spot in his yard. They are gong to dig them up this spring and replace with something that flowers. I guess I am insane: they offered that I could have them and I am going to try again. Yup, crazy!

 

[Gabler]

something that flowers

Do your boxwoods not produce flowers?

 

[queenofsheba52]

I have never noticed flowers on any boxwoods around here. Perhaps they are quite tiny?

 

[JackHammer]

Wow, @Berra , very nice work! You rescued a real beauty. Isn't it great when gorgeous material drops in to our lives, and the rescue is successful?

Here in West Michigan, boxwoods just barely survive. I've had several that I have babied with complex winter protection, but there always comes that few days where the weather is windy and below zero F and they just die. I have a neighbor across the street who has several boxwoods in a very protected spot in his yard. They are gong to dig them up this spring and replace with something that flowers. I guess I am insane: they offered that I could have them and I am going to try again. Yup, crazy!

Just leave them outside till Christmas and then bring them inside. Has been a good strategy for my azaleas.