How to Use Boxwoods in a Cottage Garden

Create a border. Use your boxwood bushes to create a border around your yard or around a certain area of your yard. This will help you create the small, cottagy feel you are looking for.

Create a room. Use your boxwood as a wall or two in a room you create outside. Boxwood bushes are perfect for surrounding a patio or other outside area.

Plant a pattern. Since boxwood bushes prune well, use them to create patterns along walkways or on their own in a yard. A diamond pattern, for example, can be created with the boxwoods and then other plants can be planted in the boxes or pathways created.

Use the boxwoods to delineate a pathway. Boxwoods look regal lining a path to a garden area or even the front door.

Plant boxwoods as a backdrop for more colorful shrubs and plants. Planting taller boxwoods along a house wall or in a garden space will cover up unsightly areas.