History

    Many plants move in and out of fashion, but one venerable evergreen outlasts all passing fancies - the English Boxwood - Buxus sempervirens ‘Suffruticosa’. Proclaimed as nature’s oldest garden ornamental, boxwood fossils 22 million years old have been found in Europe.  Its first known ornamental use occurred among the Egyptians about 4,000 B.C. Brought to the Virginia colony on tall-masted sailing ships during the 18th Century, the slow-growing English Boxwood enhances the landscapes of such national landmarks as the White House, Colonial Williamsburg, and Mount Vernon.

That’s where English Boxwoods of Virginia comes in. Two college professors, Ken, a mathematician, and Steve, a psychologist, wanted something more than to spend their summers neatly planted in front of a chalkboard. Out of a conversation in Ken’s family room with his father-in-law, a lifelong cultivator of English Boxwoods, two "country boys at heart" made the decision to grow English Boxwoods.

Beginning in a sandbox belonging to Steve’s daughter Sarah, who was 6 years old at the time, English Boxwoods of Virginia was born. From that backyard sandbox in the spring of 1982 to the current fields in Amherst, Goochland, and Middlesex Counties, these two entrepreneurs have supplied boxwoods to the White House, the Governor’s Mansion in Richmond, Oatlands Plantation in Leesburg, as well as Colonial Williamsburg.

In the Virginia tradition, English Boxwoods of Virginia provides the Commonwealth and points beyond with quality plants and excellent service.

"Choose an English Boxwood - An English Boxwood of Virginia, of course!"   

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