The Grinch is not the only villain that shows up uninvited at Christmas. Boxwood blight, which has been found in about 30 Virginia counties, can deliver a dose of dieback to an unwitting landscape.

Boxwoods are hardy evergreen shrubs that are valuable for forming borders for driveways and walkways for formal and contemporary homes. Learn when to trim boxwoods and how best to do it for a neat, ...

Skilled sheep shearers can get the wool off a ewe in two shakes of a lamb's tail. Arcadio Rios has his own lightning-quick technique, except his objective is a 15-foot boxwood hedge. Snip, snip, snip ...