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Boxerwood Gardens is a 15 acres (61000 m²) arboretum featuring both native and unusual plant specimens located within a larger preserve at 963 Ross Road Lexington Virginia USA in the Shenandoah Valley.The Arboretum contains thousands of labeled trees and shrubs including 1300 cultivars with fine collections of dwarf conifers magnolias dogwoods rhododendrons azaleas and Japanese maples.Examples of its collection include: 163 varieties of Acer palmatum (Japanese Maple) Abies nebrodensis (Sicilian Fir) Acer buergerianum (Trident maple) Acer griseum (Paperbark Maple) Acer pensylvanicum (Striped maple) Aesculus parviflora (Bottlebrush Buckeye) Aesculus pavia (Red Buckeye) Aesculus x carnea ‘Briottii’ (Red Horsechestnut) Chaemaecyparis obtusa (Hinoki Falsecypress) Chionanthus virginicus (White Fringetree) Cladrastis kentuckea (American Yellowwood) Cryptomeria japonica (Japanese Cedar) Halesia tetraptera (Carolina Silverbell) Ilex verticillata (Winterberry) Liquidunbar styraciflua ‘Corky’ (Corky Sweetgum) Malus ‘Red Jade’ (Red Jade Crabapple) Picea omorika ‘Pendula’ (Weeping Serbian Spruce) Syringa reticulata (Japanese Tree Lilac) Taxodium distichum (Baldcypress) Taxus species (Yews) Thuja occidntalis (American Arborvitae) and Viburnum prunifolium (Blackhaw viburnum).Boxerwood Gardens has also recently opened a new PlayTrail a nature playground designed especially for young children.
