{"id":126,"date":"2009-12-28T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2009\/12\/28\/sky-pencil-holly-vs-dee-runk-boxwood\/"},"modified":"2018-01-27T21:13:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T02:13:40","slug":"sky-pencil-holly-vs-dee-runk-boxwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2009\/12\/28\/sky-pencil-holly-vs-dee-runk-boxwood\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sky Pencil Holly vs &#8216;Dee Runk&#8217; Boxwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/Szlc8YJbO7I\/AAAAAAAAAEw\/P_aHITj546A\/s1600-h\/DSC_0250.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420465818860993458\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 214px; float: left; height: 320px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/Szlc8YJbO7I\/AAAAAAAAAEw\/P_aHITj546A\/s320\/DSC_0250.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;Sky Pencil&#8217; holly at Saunders Brothers Nursery in Virginia<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10498\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Buxus-sempervirens-Dee-Runk-2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10498\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10498\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Buxus-sempervirens-Dee-Runk-2-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Buxus-sempervirens-Dee-Runk-2-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Buxus-sempervirens-Dee-Runk-2-768x1160.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Buxus-sempervirens-Dee-Runk-2-678x1024.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;Dee Runk&#8217; boxwood<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Boxwoods and hollies are mainline evergreen shrubs, utilized for low hedging, privacy barriers.\u00a0Single shrubs are planted solely for their architectural accent.\u00a0 Both hollies and boxwoods grow best in moist, well-drained soils and\u00a0in full sun to partial shade.\u00a0 Both\u00a0prefer soils with a pH of slightly acidic to slightly alkaline. Boxwoods\u00a0tend to be more shade tolerant than Japanese hollies.\u00a0In winter plant foliage\u00a0may\u00a0scorch or bronze\u00a0if grown in open sun.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Plants are generally tolerant of pruning and shearing.\u00a0Pruning too early in spring\u00a0may promote tender new growth that\u00a0is easily\u00a0injured or killed by a late spring frost.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There are few shrubs that fit into narrow spaces better than &#8216;Dee Runk&#8217; boxwood (<em>Buxus sempervirens<\/em>\u00a0&#8216;Dee Runk&#8217;).\u00a0Research has shown that Dee Runk is a better choice than currently popular cultivar &#8216;Graham Blandy&#8217;, which is seriously troubled by soil\u00a0borne diseases, specifically Phytophthora root rot.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>&#8216;Sky Pencil&#8217; Japanese holly (<em>Ilex crenata<\/em>\u00a0&#8216;Sky Pencil&#8217;) exhibits a similar upright (fastigiate) form.\u00a0They are finicky regarding soil drainage. Plants are\u00a0particularly susceptible to soil root rot diseases including\u00a0Phytophthora and Pythium.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Both &#8216;Dee Runk&#8217; boxwood and &#8216;Sky Pencil&#8217; holly grow well in large landscape containers on patios and along downtown streets in USDA zones 6-9. Expect mature shrub heights between 8-10 feet.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxwoods and hollies are mainline evergreen shrubs, utilized for low hedging, privacy barriers.\u00a0Single shrubs are planted solely for their architectural accent.\u00a0 Both hollies and boxwoods grow best in moist, well-drained soils and\u00a0in full sun to partial shade.\u00a0 Both\u00a0prefer soils with a pH of slightly acidic to slightly alkaline. Boxwoods\u00a0tend to be more shade tolerant than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,1319,873,1037,144,806,800,604,665,686,853,551,843,1060,601,729,777,1210,630,7,113,1454,1222,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10499,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/10499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}