evergreen plant with heavy silverish racy foliation and a undifferentiated growth habit . Good groundcover for big scale region . Shrubby with low - fleeceable foliage , reasonably similar to Juniperus Pfitzeriana in riding habit , medium size to 10 feet with branch in all directions . create small pear-shaped drab blue yield . harbor color well in wintertime . Excellent as a bank cover for erosion control .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
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Watering
Planting
cautiously polish off bush from container and gently disjoined beginning . Position in center of muddle , best side face forward . fulfill in with original ground or an ameliorate mixture if needed as described above . For larger bush , build a water well . Finish by mulch and watering well .
If the plant life is balled - and - burlapped , remove fasteners and close back the top of natural gunny , tucking it down into hole , after you ’ve position bush . Make indisputable that all gunny is buried so that it wo n’t wick H2O by from rootball during blistering , dry period . If synthetic gunny , remove if possible . If not possible , cut away or make slits to allow for solution to develop into the Modern stain . For larger shrubs , build a weewee well . Finish by mulch and watering well .
If shrub is spare - root , seem for a stain somewhere near the infrastructure ; this mark is likely where the soil line was . If grime is too sandy or too clayey , add constituent matter . This will help with both drainage and urine keeping capacity . Fill soil , firming just enough to defend shrub . Finish by mulch and watering well .
Problems
Prevention and Control : keep weeds down , guide individual plants and remove cat , give labeled insecticides such as soaps and oils , take advantage of natural enemies such as parasitic wasps in the garden and employ Bacillus thuringiensis ( biologic warfare ) for some caterpillar species . Pest : Leaf MinersLeaf Mineris actually a term that applies to various larvae ( of moths , beetle , and fly ) that burrow between upper and low foliage surfaces , leave a distinctive , squiggly formula . A female grownup can position several hundred eggs inside the leaf which hatch and give rise to mineworker . Leaf miner attack ornamentals and veggie .
Prevention and Control : Keep grass down and lookout individual plant for tell - tale squiggle . Pick and demolish these leaves and take advantage of rude enemies such as parasitic wasps . sleep with the Growing Degree Days ( GDD ) * for your area to target insecticide sprays when most good for controlling the specific leaf mineworker . attempt a professional good word and come after all recording label subprogram to a tee . * GDD number should be available from your local Cooperative Extension office .
