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tom_mn

Boxwood lost its bark over the winter, still green

tom_mn
12 years ago

I have a 5' tall green mountain boxwood that was severely squashed by last winter's snows. Many of the branches were broken and at the breaks the bark was all peeled off, sometimes for 5 inch stretches all the way around the stems. Rather than prune it in spring and have these large bare areas, I decided to leave it in its crippled but still somewhat symmetrical form and enjoy it till the broken branches turned brown.

Well, the broken, barkless stems put out new growth, and by July I decided to tie up the broken stems and give the shrub back its nice form.

I thought bark was necessary for plant health-- are boxwoods an exception?

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