Box plants
In botany, evergreen shrubs or small trees of the box plants family (Buxaceae), are best known for the ornamental and useful boxwoods. The box plants family comprises seven genera of semi-mature trees, garden shrubs, and herbaceous box plants, native to North America, Europe, North Africa, and Asia. The box plants bear male and female flowers, without petals, on separate plants. The leathery, evergreen leaves are simple and alternate. Fruits are one- or two-seeded capsules or drupes. Three species of the box plants provide the widely grown boxwood: the common, or English, box plants (B. sempervirens), used for hedging, borders, and topiary figures; the Japanese box plants (B. microphylla); and the tall boxwood tree (B. balearica).
Johnsons’ box plants
Johnsons of Whixley are a specialist nursery located in Whixley. We supply box plants (buxus) for hedging, topiary, bonsai and specimen trees and garden plants.
If you are looking for one box plant or thousands of box plants, for delivery anywhere in the UK or Europe, then we can help you. You are welcome to phone us with questions concerning box plants or visit our plant nursery.
Thanks to one of the most highly developed box plants sourcing systems of any nursery, if we don't have the box plants you need in stock we almost always know someone who has. More and more landscape architects are specifying box plants but Johnsons of Whixley is one of the few growers in the UK to grow wholesale plants on any scale.