Dee Runk Columnar Boxwood
Buxus sempervirens ‘Dee Runk’
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 6a-8b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Evergreen Shrub
Height at Maturity: 8-10′
Width at Maturity: 2-3′
Growth Habit / Form: Dense, Columnar
Growth Rate: Moderate
Flower Color: Cream, inconspicuous
Flower Size: Tiny
Flowering Period: Spring
Flower Type: Single
Fragrant Flowers: Yes
Foliage Color: Green
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries: No
Berry Color: NA
Sun Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade, Morning Shade with Evening Sun
Water Needs: Average, Low when established
Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sandy, Silty
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist to Somewhat Dry
Soil pH: 5.5 – 7.5
Maintenance / Care: Low
Attracts: Visual Attention and Interest
Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Drought, Heat, Insect
Description
With a distinct columnar form, the Dee Runk Boxwood is an evergreen shrub that will be an exclamation point in your landscape! Dee Runk is an excellent cultivar selected and grown for its form, deep green lustrous foliage that retains its color right through winter, and its ability to thrive in a variety of site conditions. It tends to be full all the way to the ground and is suitable for planting under power lines. An excellent choice for narrow hedges and screens to 10 feet tall and 2 to 3 feet wide.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing 8 to 10 feet tall and 2 feet wide in a naturally upright habit and narrow form with no pruning, the Dee Runk Boxwood is ideal for use as a vertical exclamation point anywhere in the sunny to partially shaded landscape. Great for those narrow spots in home foundation plants planted in the ground or in well-draining pots. Also ideal as a narrow hedge where space is limited. A fine addition to formal gardens.
Suggested Spacing: 18 inches apart for solid hedges; 4 feet or more apart for space between plants
Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 6a, where this Boxwood variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.
Growing Preferences
The Dee Runk Boxwood is exceptionally easy to grow when planted right and in the right spot. It adapts to most soil types, preferring a moist but well drained soil of average fertility. As with so many other plants, a constantly soggy or wet soil can be problematic. It prefers mostly sun but will tolerate some shade. In our gardens, we’ve found it to have exceptional drought, heat, disease and pest resistance. Responds well to pruning.
Helpful Articles
Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant and care for Boxwood shrubs.
How To Plant A Boxwood Shrub
How To Fertilize And Water A Boxwood Shrub
How To Prune A Boxwood Shrub
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My first time to order a shrub online and have it shipped! It was a pleasant experience with great customer service, and a pretty little plant packaged beautifully, shipped quickly and received in perfect condition! This particular Boxwood was only available online, and I’m so glad I found it and ordered from Wilson Brothers! Will definitely order again if needed! Good company!!! Shipped from Georgia to Central Texas with no problems or delays!!! Very impressed! Thanks!!!!————————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
This was our first time ordering plants online and it was a great experience. These Dee Runk Boxwoods were hard to find locally, so we were happy to find them here. We received the 2 we ordered quickly. The packaging was great and the plants were in great shape. We planted them and they are doing well a few weeks later. I just ordered 3 more.—————————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the great review and the kind words! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Despite arriving on its side (it wasn’t labeled “This end up”) it only lost a tiny bit of dirt due to excellent packaging. The damp paper wadding seemed to help keep the soil moist. Planted immediately after soil prep and it’s doing fine. In-ground about 3 weeks now. If possible, I’ll follow up this review after a year, then two.—————————-We are so glad you are pleased with your purchase! Thanks for the great review! Beth | WBG 🙂
Our Dee Runk Columnar Boxwood was shipped promptly. The plant was packaged very carefully and arrived in good condition. Has been in the ground for several days day and appears to be doing well. First order from Wilson Brothers. Sufficiently impressed that I have already submitted two additional orders for other types of plants.—————————————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
I contacted the customer service prior to purchasing the plants. Great CS! Quick response & very informative. Shipment was fast. We got the plants in great condition. We were worried because we placed the order during a hot summer month. We forgot to take a picture bc we were so excited and planted them right away. These two are our new babies. Thank you WBG!—————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Plant was delivered quickly and was in great shape!————————-We are so happy you are pleased with your purchase! Beth | WBG
The Dee Runk Boxwood shrubs arrived in 3 days in perfect condition. Planted them a few days later after preparing my soil and so far they are doing great!! Love all the helpful articles on their website and planting advise. This is my first order with Wilson Bros and it won’t be my last. I have already shared with my friends and family to check out their website. Great products and so many choices. I can’t wait to place my next order!! Thank you Wilson Bros. ———————– WBG Reply: Hi Janet – Thanks so much for your review of the Dee Runk Columnar Boxwoods and for the compliments. It makes everything we do even more worth the while! Thanks also for the pictures and sharing our website with your family and friends. Because we do little to no paid advertising, this is how we grow. Glad to hear the boxwoods are doing great and hope you enjoy them for years to come. – Brent | Wilson Bros Gardens



















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