Boxwood
This is general guidance. Adjust watering and care for your home's light, temperature, humidity, potting mix, container, and season.
The boxwoods are the grown-ups in the room. It takes years of light, regular shearing to coax them into these clean spheres, and at six or seven years old mine finally read as deliberate rather than shrubby. They do the unglamorous work of structure — the dark, solid forms that make the loose perennials around them look intentional, and the green that keeps the garden from looking empty in January.
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