Broad - free-base , pyramidal evergreen shrub with informal rugged just branching and dreary green foliage . Excellent for function as screen , background or accent . Withstands a wide variety of grime and mature conditions . Very long lived .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
Light
Watering
Planting
If container - grown , lie the tree on its side and remove the container . Loosen the antecedent around the edges without breaking up the root ball too much . billet tree in center of hole so that the best side faces forward . You are quick to begin filling in with dirt .
If constitute a balled and burlaped tree , place it in pickle so that the good side faces onwards . unlace or remove nails from burlap at top of testicle and pull gunny back , so it does not cohere out of hole when stain is replaced . man-made burlap should be removed as it will not moulder like natural gunny . Larger trees often fall in wire baskets . Plant as you would a b&b plant , but reduce as much of the conducting wire away as possible without actually removing the basket . chance are , you would do more damage to the rootball by remove the basketful . Simply cut away wires to leave alone several large openings for solution .
satisfy both holes with soil the same way . Never meliorate with less than half original soil . Recent study show that if your soil is at large enough , you are estimable off add little or no soil amendments .
Create a water ring around the outer border of the hole . Not only will this conseve water , but will mastermind wet to perimeter beginning , encouraging outer growth . Once Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is established , piddle ring may be leveled . Studies show that mulch trees turn faster than those unmulched , so add a 3 " " layer of pinestraw , compost , or pulverized barque over backfilled area . Remove any damage limbs .
Problems
Prevention and Control : keep weeds down , scout item-by-item plants and remove caterpillars , apply labeled insecticide such as soap and rock oil , take reward of lifelike enemies such as parasitic WASP in the garden and practice Bacillus thuringiensis ( biological warfare ) for some caterpillar species . Pest : Leaf MinersLeaf Mineris really a term that applies to various larvae ( of moths , beetles , and flies ) that burrow between upper and crushed leaf surfaces , leaving a classifiable , squiggly form . A female grownup can lie several hundred eggs inside the foliage which hatching and give rise to miner . folio miners attack ornamental and veg .
Prevention and Control : Keep grass down and scout individual industrial plant for narrate - fib squiggles . Pick and destroy these leave-taking and take reward of lifelike enemies such as leechlike wasps . bonk the Growing Degree Days ( GDD ) * for your area to target insecticide sprays when most good for controlling the specific leaf miner . Seek a professional testimonial and follow all recording label process to a tee . * GDD issue should be usable from your local Cooperative Extension office .
