Boxwood (buxus) is an evergreen plant with a dense crown and glossy foliage. It is undemanding in care, tolerates haircuts well and steadily retains its shape. The plant is used in ornamental gardening for landscaping, creating topiaries, borders and hedges. You can transplant boxwood in spring and autumn. Subject to the rules of planting, seedlings take root easily and quickly.

Features of transplanting an adult boxwood

Transplanting boxwood in autumn and spring

Transplanting boxwood, already an adult plant, to another place is possible at any age. In order for it to take root well, you should follow the recommendations:

  1. The best time to transplant is spring. During the summer and autumn period, boxwood will take root well, which will allow it to endure wintering.
  2. An adult specimen is transplanted with a soil clod, for this it is dug in from all sides to the depth of a shovel bayonet and then removed from the ground.
  3. Transplantation rules are the same as when planting seedlings in open ground.
Important! Boxwood is considered an adult after three years.

When can boxwood be transplanted

Boxwood blooms in spring. The optimal transplant time for him is autumn. Thanks to unpretentiousness, spring and summer transplants are also successful.

Advice! For plants that bloom in the spring, the transplant is carried out in the fall. For crops that bloom in late summer and autumn, the event is held in spring.

Transplanting boxwood in the fall to a new place

For transplanting boxwood in the fall, the time is chosen so that it has time to take root before the onset of frost. The shrub takes about a month to recover, so the optimal period is the second half of September – the beginning of October.

Transplanting boxwood in autumn and spring

If the seedling was purchased at a later date, then it is added dropwise for the winter, covered with waterproof light covering material. Polyethylene film should not be used for this purpose.

A feature of the autumn transplant is that when the earth settles, the buxus must be mulched. Used as mulch:

  • agrofabric;
  • lowland peat;
  • splinter
Important! It is impossible to use oak bark and coniferous sawdust for mulching – they decompose poorly and lower the acidity of the soil.

Transplanting boxwood in the spring to a new place

The advantage of boxwood in the spring is that it adapts in 15 to 20 days. The air temperature less than 30 oС and the absence of its significant fluctuations contribute to the successful rooting of the plant.

In a temperate climate, the crop can be planted in early spring: in late March – early April. Transplantation in the summer is not recommended, since boxwood does not take root well in a new place at high temperatures.

To protect the roots of the transplanted buxus from the summer heat, it must be mulched with sand or perlite. Mulch is laid in a layer of 5 – 7 cm at a distance of about 2 cm from the trunk. This will ensure free air circulation.

Important! A large amount of mulch during transplantation will lead to the fact that the roots will not go deep into the soil, but will be in the surface layer. This will negatively affect the condition of boxwood in dry weather.

How to transplant boxwood to another place

In order to safely transplant a boxwood bush, a certain procedure is followed. In general, they come down to several stages

Preparation plants

To prepare a seedling for planting in the ground, you can use one of the following methods:

  • if the boxwood is in a container, then the day before transplantation, the earth is abundantly spilled with water – this will make it easy to remove the seedling;
  • if the specimen has bare roots, then the earth is carefully removed from them and placed in water for 24 hours.

Transplanting boxwood in autumn and spring

Important! In the case when, during transplantation, it is found that the roots of the plant are strongly intertwined, have gone inside the root ball, they should be untangled with a thin oblong tool. If this is not done, then the root system will not be able to free itself and restore the natural external direction of growth.

Site preparation

Boxwood is planted in a shady place, next to large plants or buildings. Groundwater should not come close to the surface of the earth.

Attention! If boxwood is placed in an open, well-heated area, in winter, during a thaw, foliage may wake up, which will probably suffer during the next frost.

If the shrub is planned to be cut often, giving it the necessary shape, then the soil must be fertile: this will ensure good growth. Buxus feels better on acidic soils (pH> 6). You can increase the acidity with the help of lowland peat, humus, compost, soil mixture (two parts of sand and humus and one part of sod land).

Boxwood is transplanted into a hole when planted individually or into a shallow trench when forming a border or hedge. Depending on its variety and features of landscape design, the recommended distance between seedlings is 30 – 50 cm. When creating a border, 10 copies are planted per 1 meter.

The parameters of the holes should be three times the size of the root system. A layer of drainage is poured at the bottom. You can use expanded clay, perlite (mixed 1:1 with earth from the pit) or a mixture of crushed stone and sand in a 1:1 ratio.

Application of fertilizers

For a successful transplant, the soil is fertilized. Growth is stimulated with compost, nitrogen or complex fertilizers for evergreen crops. They are evenly mixed in a dry form in a hole with soil.

Important! Before planting, fertilizers should not be applied in large quantities directly to the hole and spilled with plenty of water. The resulting high concentrations can “burn” the roots, which will lead to the death of the culture.

Landing algorithm

  1. Place the boxwood in the hole.
  2. A seedling or an adult specimen is placed in a hole strictly vertically, spreading the roots.
  3. Deepen it to the same level as in the previous place of growth.
  4. Then the substrate is gradually filled up to the height of growth. To exclude the formation of voids, the soil is introduced in portions, tamping each layer.
  5. After filling the hole with soil, the buxus is watered. To do this, it is recommended to use well, rain or settled tap water. The required amount is calculated based on the size: for a plant with a height of 15 – 20 cm, about 3 liters of water will be required.
  6. If the soil has settled, add soil. This layer does not need to be compacted. A small earthen rampart is made around the trunk at a distance of 20-30 cm to prevent water from spreading during irrigation.
  7. The trunk circle (a piece of land near the trunk, corresponding to the diameter of the crown) is sprinkled with a layer of perlite 2 cm thick.

Caring for a transplanted plant

Transplanting boxwood in autumn and spring

Boxwood after transplantation does not require complex care. But for each period of the year there are certain rules:

  1. After transplanting in the fall, it is necessary to ensure that the soil does not dry out. If the bush is located in a sunny place, then watering is carried out by sprinkling. For a good wintering, the culture is fed with phosphorus-potassium fertilizers. The first haircut of the shrub is carried out not earlier than spring.
  2. After a spring transplant, fertilizer should not be applied for a month. During the growing season, once a week, you can feed the shrub with chicken manure or a growth stimulator. In the summer, in the absence of rain, watering should be no more than 1 time per week. If planting is carried out in the form of a border, then the plants must be well shed and cut by a third.

Conclusion

You can transplant boxwood at any time of the year, except for winter. For young specimens, an autumn transplant is recommended, for unpretentious adult plants – spring. The culture takes root well and can be used to implement bold and traditional solutions in the landscape design of the backyard.

Transplanting boxwood in autumn and spring

Transplanting boxwood in autumn

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