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Buxus Heritage - Boxwood

Buxus 'Her2010B02' HERITAGE
Common Box, European Box, Boxwood

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A hybrid boxwood with a compact and regular habit. Its dark green, dense, evergreen foliage remains decorative in all seasons. Resistant to boxwood blight, this cultivar tolerates pruning very well and is easy to grow. Ideal for borders, low hedges and topiary forms in containers.
Height at maturity
1.10 m
Spread at maturity
80 cm
Exposure
Sun, Partial shade
Hardiness
Hardy down to -29°C
Soil moisture
Moist soil
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Best planting time March, October
Recommended planting time February to April, September to November
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Description

Buxus BetterBuxus® Heritage is a recent hybrid boxwood, close to Buxus sempervirens, but more compact and more resistant to boxwood diseases. Its dense, beautiful dark green foliage weaves elegant hedges and forms well-groomed topiaries with little maintenance. Its dimensions are ideal for framing paths and entrances. Evergreen in winter, elegant and versatile, it thrives in sun or partial shade, in any well-drained soil.

Buxus BetterBuxus/Better Boxwood Heritage (= Buxus ‘HER2010B02’, family Buxaceae) is a hybrid cultivar obtained in Belgium by Didier Hermans (Herplant BVBA) as part of a breeding programme carried out around 2009–2010 to improve resistance to boxwood blight (Calonectria pseudonaviculata). It belongs to the BetterBuxus® series, which includes four complementary hybrids: Renaissance, Heritage, Babylon Beauty and Skylight). The collection has been awarded a professional prize.
Compared to the type species (B. sempervirens), Heritage shows a more bushy, dense, naturally more compact habit, regular symmetry and excellent aptitude for pruning to create low hedges and topiaries.
Evergreen shrub, with slightly winged quadrangular stems, Heritage bears small opposite, simple, obovate, entire, smooth and glossy leaves, dark green in colour at maturity; the young foliage emerges paler at bud burst. Its growth is moderate and regular. In open ground, a mature specimen, about 10 years old, measures between 0.90m and 1.20m in height and 0.60m to 0.90m in width; in a container, it remains more compact depending on the pot volume, care given and frequency of pruning. Hardy down to -25 °C, it requires well-drained soil and tolerates lime. The plant does not sucker.

In a border or as a low hedge, Heritage draws clean lines and brings order to the garden. In a pot, it can be pruned into balls, oval shapes and small cones to mark an entrance. In a classic display, pair it, for example, with laurustinus 'Gwenlian' and the shrubby honeysuckle Lonicera nitida 'Elegant'. You can plant in front of this small evergreen hedge a border of Teucrium chamaedrys ‘Alba'.

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Boxwood: planting, pruning and care
Family sheet
by Virginie T. 15 min.
Boxwood: planting, pruning and care
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Buxus Heritage - Boxwood in pictures

Buxus Heritage - Boxwood (Foliage) Foliage
Buxus Heritage - Boxwood (Plant habit) Plant habit

Plant habit

Height at maturity 1.10 m
Spread at maturity 80 cm
Habit irregular, bushy
Growth rate slow

Flowering

Bee-friendly Attracts pollinators

Foliage

Foliage persistence Evergreen
Foliage colour dark green

Botanical data

Genus

Buxus

Cultivar

'Her2010B02' HERITAGE

Family

Buxaceae

Other common names

Common Box, European Box, Boxwood

Origin

Cultivar or hybrid, Southeast Asia

Product reference24949

Planting and care

This easy-to-grow hybrid box 'Heritage' will thrive in any well-drained soil, slightly acid, neutral or slightly alkaline, rather rich. It adapts equally well to sunny or partially shaded positions. This plant requires virtually no maintenance. Water for the first few years after planting, especially during summer, while the plant establishes. Hardy down to -25°C. For container cultivation, apply box fertiliser once or twice a year.

Planting period

Best planting time March, October
Recommended planting time February to April, September to November

Intended location

Suitable for Meadow, Woodland edge
Type of use Border, Edge of border, Small gardens, Container, Hedge
Hardiness Hardy down to -29°C (USDA zone 5) Show map
Ease of cultivation Beginner
Exposure Sun, Partial shade
Soil pH Any
Soil type Silty-loamy (rich and light)
Soil moisture Moist soil Well-drained soil

Care

Pruning instructions Prune at the beginning of spring using a disinfected and sharpened shear. Preferably, prune in the evening or morning in damp weather, never in direct sunlight, as soon as young shoots disturb the lines of the plant.
Pruning Pruning recommended once a year
Pruning time March to April, August to September
Soil moisture Moist soil
Disease resistance Very good
Overwinter Can be left in the ground

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