{"id":1454,"slug":"boxwood-garden-villa-miralfiore","title":"Boxwood","image_url":"https:\/\/villamiralfiore.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/BOSSO_72dpi.webp","position":"The Garden","subtitle":"Buxus Sempervirens","text":"<p>In the Italian formal garden at Villa Miralfiore, <strong>Boxwood<\/strong> (<em>Buxus sempervirens<\/em>), a symbol of order and stability, forms elegant hedges and borders. Evergreen and long-lived, it has been a distinctive element of formal gardens for centuries, adding harmony and beauty to every season.<\/p>\n","fulltext":"<p>In the three terraces of the gardens at Villa Miralfiore, numerous specimens of <strong>Buxus sempervirens<\/strong>, commonly known as <strong>Boxwood<\/strong>, stand out. This characteristic plant of Italian formal gardens is renowned for its elegance and versatility. This slow-growing, compact evergreen shrub is celebrated for its small, glossy, oval leaves of an intense green that retain their color year-round, creating a tidy and harmonious appearance. Boxwood is ideal for creating hedges, borders, and topiary sculptures, which are key elements in Italian formal gardens.<br \/>\nNative to Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia, Boxwood has been used for centuries to structure the green spaces of historic gardens due to its robustness and longevity. It is resistant to shade, poor soils, and frequent pruning, making it essential for defining pathways and creating precise geometries typical of Italian garden design.<br \/>\nBoxwood is a plant with curious and remarkable characteristics. Its wood is incredibly hard and compact, so much so that it was historically used to manufacture objects requiring great durability, such as scientific instruments, sculptures, and even wooden mallets, telescope frames, and sundials. Thanks to its density, Boxwood is heavy enough to sink in water and offers a smooth, uniform finish, highly valued for inlay work and finely detailed engravings.<\/p>\n","audio":"https:\/\/villamiralfiore.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/29_Boxwood.mp3","video":false,"details":"","english":"","italian":"bosso-giardino-villa-miralfiore","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/villamiralfiore.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poi\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/villamiralfiore.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poi"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/villamiralfiore.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/poi"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villamiralfiore.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/villamiralfiore.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villamiralfiore.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}