Buxus Heritage - Boxwood
Buxus Heritage - Boxwood
Buxus Heritage - Boxwood
Buxus 'Her2010B02' HERITAGE
Common Box, European Box, Boxwood
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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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Botanical data
Buxus
'Her2010B02' HERITAGE
Buxaceae
Common Box, European Box, Boxwood
Cultivar or hybrid, Southeast Asia
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.
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Hardiness is the lowest winter temperature a plant can endure without suffering serious damage or even dying. However, hardiness is affected by location (a sheltered area, such as a patio), protection (winter cover) and soil type (hardiness is improved by well-drained soil).
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In temperate climates, pruning of spring-flowering shrubs (forsythia, spireas, etc.) should be done just after flowering.
Pruning of summer-flowering shrubs (Indian Lilac, Perovskia, etc.) can be done in winter or spring.
In cold regions as well as with frost-sensitive plants, avoid pruning too early when severe frosts may still occur.
The harvesting period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions in USDA zone 8 (France, England, Ireland, the Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...) fruit and vegetable harvests are likely to be delayed by 3-4 weeks.
In warmer areas (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), harvesting will probably take place earlier, depending on weather conditions.
The sowing periods indicated on our website apply to countries and regions within USDA Zone 8 (France, UK, Ireland, Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...), delay any outdoor sowing by 3-4 weeks, or sow under glass.
In warmer climes (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), bring outdoor sowing forward by a few weeks.
The planting period indicated on our website applies to regions in USDA Zone 9a (East Coast and Midlands: Dublin, Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny, Portlaoise). It will vary depending on where you live:
- On the west coast and in the north-west (Galway, Limerick, Sligo, Donegal, Westport), delay planting by 1 to 2 weeks in spring and bring it forward by 1 to 2 weeks in autumn compared to the dates given, preferably choosing periods without strong winds.
- In the inland hills and plateaus (Wicklow Mountains, Macgillycuddy’s Reeks, Connemara, Killarney), it is best to plant in spring (April–May) or autumn (September–October), avoiding periods of waterlogged soil in winter and strong winds, which pose the main risk to newly planted trees in these areas.
The flowering period indicated on our website applies to regions in USDA Zone 9a, such as the East Coast and Midlands, including Dublin, Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny and Portlaoise.
This will vary depending on where you live:
- On the west coast and in the northwest (Galway, Limerick, Sligo, Donegal and Westport), it will be delayed by one to two weeks compared to the given dates, due to stronger Atlantic winds and less spring sunshine.
- In the inland hills and plateaus (the Wicklow Mountains, the Macgillycuddy's Reeks, Connemara and Killarney), flowering will be delayed by two to three weeks. Flowering mainly occurs between May and July, with the limiting factors being less frost and more of the excessive humidity, strong winds and lack of sunshine that are characteristic of these areas.