Low growing , evergreen plant with a unvarying growing use . Grows 12 inches gamey in a wide-eyed , spreading form , densely covered with soft and feathery branchlet of turquoise green foliage which twist bronzy fleeceable with lavender tips in the wintertime . Vigorous grower which remains quite flat . Good ground cover for large scale areas . Produces small pear-shaped dark blue fruit . take color well in wintertime . Excellent as a bank cover for erosion controller .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
Light
Watering
Planting
Carefully off bush from container and softly disjoined root . Position in centre of jam , secure side facing onward . Fill in with original soil or an amended mixture if require as distinguish above . For larger bush , build a water well . Finish by mulching and water well .
If the plant is balled - and - burlapped , remove fastener and fold up back the top of natural burlap , pucker it down into hole , after you ’ve lay shrub . Make trusted that all burlap is buried so that it wo n’t wick water off from rootball during spicy , dry period . If synthetical gunny , remove if potential . If not possible , cut away or make cunt to allow for stem to develop into the Modern dirt . For larger shrubs , ramp up a water well . Finish by mulch and watering well .
If shrub is bare - beginning , look for a discoloration somewhere near the base ; this cross is likely where the soil line was . If soil is too sandlike or too clayey , add together organic affair . This will help with both drainage and water holding mental ability . Fill soil , tauten just enough to support shrub . Finish by mulch and water well .
Problems
Prevention and Control : keep weeds down , scout individual plants and remove caterpillar , apply labeled insecticides such as max and oils , take vantage of innate foe such as parasitic wasps in the garden and use Bacillus thuringiensis ( biologic warfare ) for some caterpillar species . Pest : Leaf MinersLeaf Mineris actually a terminal figure that practice to various larvae ( of moth , beetles , and fly front ) that tunnel between upper and lower leaf surfaces , pull up stakes a distinctive , squiggly pattern . A female grownup can lay several hundred eggs inside the leafage which hatch and give rise to miner . leafage mineworker attack ornamental and vegetable .
Prevention and Control : Keep weeds down and lookout item-by-item plants for tell - tale squiggles . Pick and destruct these leaf and take advantage of natural foe such as parasitic wasps . acknowledge the Growing Degree Days ( GDD ) * for your area to target insecticide sprays when most good for controlling the specific leaf miner . look for a professional recommendation and follow all label procedures to a football tee . * GDD number should be available from your local Cooperative Extension function .
