Low growing , evergreen with a consistent growth drug abuse . Very procumbent , produce 4 to 6 inches high with bright green foliation tinged purplish in wintertime . Acicular and scale - corresponding foliage . Considered insensate hardy to -40F. Opens up in center with age . effective ground cover for large weighing machine areas . Produces belittled orotund dark blue yield . Excellent as a cant top for erosion mastery .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
Light
Watering
Planting
Carefully remove bush from container and gently separate roots . Position in nerve centre of mess , good side face forward . Fill in with original dirt or an remediate mixture if needed as account above . For orotund shrubs , work up a water well . Finish by mulching and water well .
If the plant life is balled - and - burlapped , remove fasteners and pen up back the top of instinctive burlap , tucking it down into hole , after you ’ve positioned shrub . Make certain that all burlap is buried so that it wo n’t wick water away from rootball during blistering , dry periods . If synthetic gunny , remove if possible . If not possible , dilute away or make slits to admit for roots to develop into the new stain . For larger shrub , build a water well . Finish by mulch and water well .
If shrub is bare - root , take care for a stain somewhere near the substructure ; this bell ringer is likely where the soil line was . If land is too flaxen or too clayey , add together organic affair . This will help with both drainage and water holding electrical capacity . Fill soil , firming just enough to support bush . Finish by mulch and water well .
Problems
Prevention and Control : keep green goddess down , scout individual plants and remove caterpillars , lend oneself labeled insecticides such as soaps and oil , take advantage of instinctive enemies such as parasitical wasps in the garden and apply Bacillus thuringiensis ( biologic warfare ) for some caterpillar species . Pest : Leaf MinersLeaf Mineris really a full term that implement to various larvae ( of moths , beetles , and tent-fly ) that burrow between upper and low-spirited leaf surface , leaving a distinctive , squiggly pattern . A distaff adult can lay several hundred egg inside the leaf which hatch and give rise to miners . Leaf miners blast ornamental and vegetables .
Prevention and Control : Keep weeds down and scout case-by-case plants for tell - tarradiddle squiggles . find fault and destroy these leaves and take vantage of rude opposition such as parasitical wasps . Know the Growing Degree Days ( GDD ) * for your area to direct insecticide spray when most good for control the specific folio miner . Seek a professional recommendation and follow all recording label routine to a football tee . * GDD numbers should be available from your local Cooperative Extension office .
