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  • Boxwoods

    Lynn Batdorf, Curator of the national boxwood collection at the National Arboretum in Washington, DC spoke at the Landscape Planning Short Course in Athens on January 29, 2009. He offered some interesting insight into the genus Buxus as he described in detail the history, culture and many cultivars of boxwood. I summarized my notes from his lecture in bullet form below. 

    • There are 97 species of boxwood worldwide, but only 7 are temperate plants. The rest are tropicals.
  • Material to Compost

    Everything of an organic nature will compost, but not everything belongs in your home compost pile.
     

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