Outstanding , evergreen plant shrub with thick , just branch clothed in sharply pointed , bright green needles . bet on kind , works well as a ground screen , hedge , screen or windbreak . require little sustentation . Very tough plant . ‘ Hills Blue ’ is standardised to ‘ Pfitzeriana Glauca ’ but makes a lower , flat plant .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
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Planting
Carefully hit shrub from container and softly freestanding roots . Position in center of hollow , best side facing frontward . Fill in with original ground or an amended mixture if need as described above . For larger shrub , build up a water supply well . Finish by mulching and watering well .
If the plant is balled - and - burlapped , get rid of fastening and fold back the top of natural gunny , pucker it down into golf hole , after you ’ve pose bush . Make certain that all gunny is buried so that it wo n’t wick body of water away from rootball during red-hot , wry catamenia . If synthetic gunny , murder if possible . If not possible , geld away or make prick to allow for root to develop into the new soil . For large bush , build a water well . Finish by mulching and watering well .
If shrub is bare - root , face for a discoloration somewhere near the foundation ; this mark is likely where the soil ancestry was . If land is too sandy or too clayey , bestow constitutional matter . This will help with both drainage and water holding capacity . Fill soil , firming just enough to support shrub . Finish by mulching and watering well .
Problems
Prevention and Control : Plant resistant motley and provide maximal breeze circulation . Clean up all debris , specially around plants that have had a problem . Do not water from overhead and weewee only during the twenty-four hours so that plants will have enough clip to dry before night . utilize a fungicide label for rust fungus on your plant life . Pest : CaterpillarsCaterpillars are the immature physical body of moth and butterfly . They are voracious feeders attacking a wide variety of plant . They can be extremely destructive and are characterized as folio self-feeder , stem borers , leafage rollers , cutworms and tent - formers .
Prevention and Control : keep Mary Jane down , scout individual plant and remove cat , apply labeled insect powder such as soaps and oils , take advantage of natural opposition such as parasitic wasp in the garden and use Bacillus thuringiensis ( biological warfare ) for some caterpillar species . Pest : Leaf MinersLeaf Mineris actually a condition that applies to various larvae ( of moth , beetles , and fly ) that tunnel between upper and low leaf surfaces , allow a classifiable , squiggly pattern . A female grownup can lay several hundred eggs inside the leaf which hachure and give ascending to mineworker . Leaf miners attack ornamentals and vegetable .
Prevention and Control : Keep weeds down and scout individual industrial plant for secern - narration squiggle . Pick and demolish these leaves and take advantage of natural foeman such as parasitic wasp . bonk the Growing Degree Days ( GDD ) * for your area to target insecticide sprays when most beneficial for control the specific leaf miner . Seek a professional good word and follow all label subroutine to a golf tee . * GDD routine should be uncommitted from your local Cooperative Extension agency .
