These Beautiful Boxwood Landscaping Ideas Will Instantly Perk Up Your Yard (2024)

At Richard Smith's English countryside estate, boxwood globes provide sculptural and colorful contrast to a lively tapestry of purple wallflowers and mauve nepeta grandiflora greets visitors along the back drive.

In Robb Nestor and Bill Reynolds' Connecticut garden, Japanese pachysandra, giant butterbur, and large English boxwood globes form an evergreen passage from the pool garden to a potting shed and greenhouse.

Nestor and Reynolds lined a gravel path to their garden house, designed in the spirit of the vernacular outbuildings of the South, with boxwood shrubs that also serve as a border for their flower beds.

In this Connecticut potager, cabbage—along with herbs, lettuces, and leeks—bursts forth from geometric boxwood hedges.

This Connecticut parterre garden is planted with dwarf boxwood, crab apple trees, and New Guinea impatiens. “It’s inspired by older European and New England gardens and not too formal,” notes landscape designer Drew Kenny.

In this Connecticut cottage garden, a pea-stone path bordered by boxwood, veggies, and herbs leads to a shingled potting shed. Climbing the fence is Sweet Autumn clematis.

In front of his Memphis cottage, designer and antiques dealer William Eubanks added more than a quarter acre of formally planted "rooms," including the labyrinth-style garden, which features American boxwood.

At this Montecito, California, home, landscaper Steve Gierke of ho*rr Schaudt replaced a paved passageway with this gravel entry courtyard planted sparsely with olive trees and boxwood globes that offer drought-tolerant shade and cool color.

Manicured boxwood hedges and cones form graphic parterres that anchor columnar red maple trees in this Chicago garden designed by landscape designer Doug ho*rr of ho*rr Schaudt.

Framing the steps and entrance of designer Caroline Gidiere's Georgian-style home in Mountain Brook, Alabama, a series of potted and planted boxwood globes add easy (and evergreen) elegance.

Landscape designer Edmund Hollander planted a boxwood hedge between lush Annabelle hydrangeas and soaring crepe myrtles that creates an elegant green screen around the rimless pool at this Long Island, New York, home.

In the formal garden behind this South Georgia hunting retreat, architect Gil Schafer installed linear boxwood hedges to create an evergreen layer lining marble fountain coping and aged brick paths.

A round pebble mosaic at this Montecito, California, home is softened by a shapely hedge of boxwood, iceberg roses, and cypress trees.

In front of this Connecticut farmhouse, loosely shaped boxwood globes add soft formality to the hillside garden designed by landscape architect Deborah Nevins & Associates.

Outside this Houston home, garden designer Herbert Pickworth simplified the plantings to show off the crepe myrtles. After clearing a web of overgrown vegetation, he installed a clean hedge of clipped boxwood and a gravel courtyard and path.

Under the canopy of a soaring old tree at his Atlanta home, architect Bobby McAlpine lushed up his gravel courtyard with groupings of potted boxwoods and topiaries in varying sizes. The lounge chairs are Sutherland; the table is from McAlpine’s collection with Elegant Earth. The garden was designed by Mike Kaiser of Kaiser Trabue.

A parade of boxwood globes lends lush contrast to the facade of this Atlanta home, designed by architect D. Stanley Dixon with interiors by Carolyn Malone.

Large boxwood globes potted in oversize terra-cotta pots and a low boxwood hedge line the pathways of the formal gardens of design icon Juan Pablo Molyneux’s retreat in the Aube region of France.

At this Connecticut home, an English-style cutting garden designed by Wilber & King Nurseries features raised beds with small boxwood globes marking the corners.