ABC Wednesday 'B' for Buxus sempervirens

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ABC Wednesday ‘B’ This week I'll post an ABC in both The Greenhouse and Tyra's Garden.

'B'

Buxus sempervirens

A small topiary made of a Boxwood, just few years old. I make a lot of these topiary each year, I guess I like them a lot because it's an evergreen shrub and we haven't got a lot of those here in Scandinavia. Buxus sempervirens got it's name from Carl von Linné back in 1753. Buxus means box and sempervirens evergreen.

Buxus sempervirens is a flowering plant in the genus Buxus, native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and southwest Asia, from southern England south to northern Morocco, and east through the northern Mediterranean region to Turkey.
It is an evergreen shrub or small tree growing to 1-9 m tall, with a trunk up to 20 cm diameter The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, green to yellow-green, oval, 15-30 mm long and 5-13 mm broad. The hermaphrodite flowers are inconspicuous, greenish-yellow, with no petals and are pollinated by insects; the fruit is a three-lobed capsule containing 3-6 seeds. wikipedia Buxus

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