I have just planted about 10 boxwood plants in my garden. The plants
are about 1 -1.5 ft tall. Soon after planting them, I have realized
that about half of them have a bright yellow margin around some of the
leaves (only some branches seem affected).

A bit of googling left me with more questions than answers. I think
that the problem may be marginal chlorosis, however there seem to be
*a lot* of possible causes for that.

Living in the Vancouver area, I think we can rule out lack of water as
one of them.


thx,
Luca (new to gardening)

How is the sun in that area that you planted your boxwoods?
I think they need sunny to very light shade areas to grow.
We only planted one to see if it would survive because of
the sun issue -- it's still alive but it's not looking too
good sort of spindly (more so than when we planted it.

Many of the trees that had yellow edges when we moved in
are green this year and all we did was thin out the
undergrowth a bit. I don't know if it was letting in more
sun or getting rid of plants that might have had problems
that were spreading 'cause we cut out the ones that looked
really bad.

Gayle

Dwayne wrote:

I have no idea. I havent heard of them before. Get on the internet and
type in "growing boxwood plants" and see what comes up. You should be able
to bring up something that will answer your question. Dwayne

"Luca" wrote in message
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I have just planted about 10 boxwood plants in my garden. The plants
are about 1 -1.5 ft tall. Soon after planting them, I have realized
that about half of them have a bright yellow margin around some of the
leaves (only some branches seem affected).

A bit of googling left me with more questions than answers. I think
that the problem may be marginal chlorosis, however there seem to be
*a lot* of possible causes for that.

Living in the Vancouver area, I think we can rule out lack of water as
one of them.


thx,
Luca (new to gardening)

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Your planrts are fine. I have seen millions and millions of boxwood and many
of them have this small yellow band to them. It depends on variety. Dont be
such a worry wart! If i had a nickel for all the customers that came in with a
branch with conspicuous lenticels, thinking they were insects.......

Toad

I have no idea. I havent heard of them before. Get on the internet and
type in "growing boxwood plants" and see what comes up. You should be able
to bring up something that will answer your question. Dwayne

"Luca" wrote in message
...
I have just planted about 10 boxwood plants in my garden. The plants
are about 1 -1.5 ft tall. Soon after planting them, I have realized
that about half of them have a bright yellow margin around some of the
leaves (only some branches seem affected).

A bit of googling left me with more questions than answers. I think
that the problem may be marginal chlorosis, however there seem to be
*a lot* of possible causes for that.

Living in the Vancouver area, I think we can rule out lack of water as
one of them.


thx,
Luca (new to gardening)