Unusually tough , evergreen plant shrub with gray - unripened leaf on stiff , wide - spreading offshoot with peeling brown barque . Good ground cover for live , juiceless country . Superior bonsai subject . Excellent juniper for the Southeast .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
Light
Watering
Planting
cautiously remove bush from container and softly disjoined roots . Position in nub of hole , best side facing forward . take in with original stain or an amended mixture if require as draw above . For large shrub , build a water well . Finish by mulching and watering well .
If the plant is balled - and - burlapped , remove fasteners and fold up back the top of rude gunny , tucking it down into hole , after you ’ve positioned shrub . verify that all burlap is buried so that it wo n’t wick water aside from rootball during hot , dry periods . If synthetic burlap , remove if potential . If not potential , thin aside or make slit to admit for roots to develop into the new dirt . For larger shrubs , build a piddle well . Finish by mulching and watering well .
If shrub is bare - ancestor , look for a discolouration somewhere near the base ; this gull is likely where the grunge line of products was . If grime is too sandy or too clayey , append organic matter . This will facilitate with both drain and water holding capacity . Fill soil , firming just enough to tolerate shrub . Finish by mulching and water well .
Problems
Prevention and Control : keep weeds down , sentinel individual plant and remove caterpillars , apply pronounce insecticides such as goop and oils , take advantage of raw enemy such as parasitic wasp in the garden and use Bacillus thuringiensis ( biological war ) for some caterpillar coinage . Pest : Leaf MinersLeaf Mineris actually a term that give to various larva ( of moths , beetle , and flies ) that burrow between upper and lower leaf surface , allow a distinctive , squiggly pattern . A distaff adult can lay several hundred egg inside the leafage which hatch and give rise to miner . Leaf miners onrush ornamentals and vegetables .
Prevention and Control : Keep Mary Jane down and scout individual plants for secern - tale squiggles . Pick and destroy these leaves and take advantage of natural enemy such as parasitic wasp . Know the Growing Degree Days ( GDD ) * for your area to place insecticide nebulizer when most beneficial for controlling the specific folio mineworker . Seek a professional recommendation and adopt all recording label process to a golf tee . * GDD numbers should be available from your local Cooperative Extension berth .
