pyramidical , teardrop shaped in schema , thick ramification , gray green foliage . take little maintenance . Very tough plant .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
Light
Watering
Planting
cautiously remove bush from container and gently separate origin . Position in center of hole , best side present ahead . Fill in with original soil or an amended mixture if demand as described above . For with child shrubs , build a urine well . Finish by mulch and watering well .
If the plant is balled - and - burlapped , remove fasteners and fold 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 supply away from rootball during live , dry periods . If semisynthetic gunny , remove if potential . If not possible , cut away or make slits to allow for etymon to develop into the newfangled soil . For expectant shrubs , build a weewee well . Finish by mulch and water well .
If shrub is bare - root , front for a discoloration somewhere near the base ; this Saint Mark is probable where the soil stock was . If dirt is too sandy or too clayey , add organic thing . This will assist with both drainage and piddle holding capacity . Fill soil , firming just enough to tolerate bush . Finish by mulching and water well .
Problems
Prevention and Control : implant resistant varieties and provide maximum air circulation . Clean up all dust , especially around plant life that have had a job . Do not water from disk overhead and water only during the 24-hour interval so that industrial plant will have enough prison term to dry out before night . use a antimycotic label for rusting on your industrial plant . Pest : CaterpillarsCaterpillars are the green configuration of moth and butterflies . They are voracious feeder attacking a wide change of plants . They can be highly destructive and are characterized as folio confluent , stalk borers , foliage rollers , cutworm and tent - former .
Prevention and Control : keep smoke down , picket individual plants and remove caterpillar , use label insecticides such as soaps and oils , take advantage of rude enemy such as parasitic wasps in the garden and use Bacillus thuringiensis ( biologic warfare ) for some caterpillar coinage . Pest : Leaf MinersLeaf Mineris actually a full term that applies to various larvae ( of moth , beetles , and flies ) that tunnel between upper and lower leaf surface , leave a distinctive , squiggly pattern . A female grownup can lay several hundred nut inside the folio which hatching and give rise to miners . Leaf miners attack ornamentals and vegetables .
Prevention and Control : Keep weeds down and scout item-by-item plants for tell - tale squiggles . Pick and destroy these leaves and take advantage of natural foeman such as epenthetic wasps . Know the Growing Degree Days ( GDD ) * for your sphere to target insecticide sprays when most beneficial for controlling the specific leaf miner . search a professional good word and follow all label procedures to a football tee . * GDD numbers should be useable from your local Cooperative Extension office .
