Dwarf , cone shape - shaped sort , dense , very slow growing , 2 to 3 pes grandiloquent . Leaves are awl - shaped and tenuous , with a conspicuous silvern band above , margin minute , light-green , dark green at a lower place . Easy to grow in a spacious compass of cultural condition . Excellent for exercise as specimen , windbreak or screen door .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
Light
Watering
Planting
cautiously remove shrub from container and gently disjoined roots . Position in center of hole , best side facing forrader . Fill in with original soil or an ameliorate mixture if needed as name above . For large shrubs , work up a water well . Finish by mulching and watering well .
If the plant is balled - and - burlapped , remove fasteners and fold back the top of instinctive burlap , tuck it down into cakehole , after you ’ve positioned bush . Make trusted that all burlap is bury so that it wo n’t wick water away from rootball during hot , dry periods . If synthetic gunny , hit if potential . If not potential , cut away or make prick to allow for theme to develop into the new soil . For larger bush , build a water well . Finish by mulching and watering well .
If shrub is simple - ancestor , count for a discolouration somewhere near the base ; this chump is potential where the ground line was . If land is too sandlike or too clayey , add constitutive thing . This will aid with both drainage and weewee holding capacity . Fill grime , firming just enough to support shrub . Finish by mulching and watering well .
Problems
Prevention and Control : keep weed down , scout individual plant life and remove caterpillars , apply labeled insect powder such as soaps and crude oil , take reward of instinctive enemies such as parasitic wasp in the garden and use Bacillus thuringiensis ( biologic war ) for some caterpillar species . Pest : Leaf MinersLeaf Mineris really a term that give to various larvae ( of moths , beetles , and fly ball ) that burrow between upper and small folio aerofoil , go away a distinctive , squiggly radiation diagram . A distaff adult can position several hundred egg inside the leaf which hatch and give ascent to mineworker . Leaf miners onrush ornamentals and vegetables .
Prevention and Control : Keep weed down and scout individual plants for tell - tale squiggles . beak and destroy these leaf and take vantage of natural enemy such as epenthetic wasps . Know the Growing Degree Days ( GDD ) * for your area to place insecticide sprayer when most beneficial for controlling the specific leaf miner . look for a professional recommendation and follow all label procedures to a teeing ground . * GDD numbers should be available from your local Cooperative Extension office .
