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“Some grow real fast, others never seem to do much. That’s all there is to it."

Over the years Weaver has grown a lot of boxwoods. Many of them have been added to his side yard in a boxwood garden, a peaceful, shady spot where a boxwood hedge surrounds boxwood bushes arranged in graceful shapes among taller evergreen trees.

Weaver believes that the best way to grow beautiful boxwoods is to leave them alone. "Water them if it gets too dry, but don’t try to prune them too much.”

Weaver said that the Old English boxwood will grow naturally in a tidy, pleasing shape, and the American boxwood should not be cut back to a stiff, heavilypruned bush.

"The biggest mistake folks make around here is to prune too heavily and too early," he said. "Don't prune before July." He pointed out some boxwoods around town that

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