Dwarf Variegated Boxwood

Buxus sempervirens ‘Nana Variegata’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 6a-8b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Evergreen Shrub

Height at Maturity: 2-5′ depending on pruning

Width at Maturity: 2-3′ depending on pruning

Growth Habit / Form: Dense, Rounded, Upright

Growth Rate: Slow

Flower Color: NA

Flower Size: NA

Flowering Period: Spring

Flower Type: NA

Fragrant Flowers: NA

Foliage Color: Dark Green & Creamy White

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: No

Berry Color: NA

Sun Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade, Morning Shade with Evening Sun

Water Needs: Average, Low when established

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sandy, Silty

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist to Somewhat Dry

Soil pH: 5.5 – 6.5

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Drought, Heat, Insect

Description

An eye catching dwarf evergreen shrub that will light up your landscape or container gardens, the Dwarf Variegated Boxwood sports outstanding variegated leaves of white, yellow, medium green and dark green. This cute little boxwood provides excellent contrast and/or a splash of color just about anywhere in the landscape that gets 3 hours or more of direct sun, maintaining its bright color even in more shady areas. No pruning necessary however can be sheared to formal shapes.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing in a rounded form 18 to 36 inches tall and wide (depending on pruning), the Dwarf Variegated Boxwood is a bright accent in smaller garden spaces and perfect for use in pots, planters and other containers 12 inches or more in diameter. Also ideal for use as a colorful natural or clipped formal low hedge or as a specimen or grouping in landscape borders or home foundation plantings.

Spacing: 18-24 inches apart for solid hedge; 4 feet or more apart for space between plants

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Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 6a, where this Boxwood variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Growing Preferences

The Variegated Dwarf Boxwood is easy to grow when planted right, and in the right spot. It adapts to most soil types and likes full sun or part shade, preferring afternoon shade or filtered sun in warmer climates of the South. It prefers a moist but well-drained soil and will only need supplemental water during prolonged periods of dry weather. As with many other plants, a constantly soggy or wet soil can be problematic.

Helpful Articles

Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant and care for Boxwood shrubs.

How To Plant A Boxwood Shrub

How To Fertilize And Water A Boxwood Shrub

How To Prune A Boxwood Shrub

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I was very pleased with my dwarf variegated boxwoods when I received them. The packaging was great and they were in very good shape. I appreciated the instructions related to taking care of them if you couldn’t plant them right away as well. I just planted them, so hopefully they’ll do well!————————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the great review and the kind words! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

..and great price for 6. We bought 3 six-packs. I ordered in Nov/Dec 2020 and was surprised to get such good service/product during the pandemic.. Plants have only been in the ground 2 weeks, with biotone and attentive watering, This is a public garden, hoping to have a nice low hedge in 5 years. I’ll keep you posted! (PS these replaced a new “proven winners” hybrid that all died last year and from what I can tell are now proven losers) So I have very high hopes all the Wilson Bros basic boxwoods will survive with careful tending! I’m never buynig that fancy new stuff again.———————————————————–Thanks for the photos! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope yall enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

Arrived promptly. Well packaged and hydrated. In the ground. We’ll see in the spring.———————————————–We are so glad you are pleased with your purchase! Thanks for the great review! Beth | WBG 🙂