It is a fast - arise , pyramidal , evergreen plant Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree with scaly parting held on flatten to quadrangular branchlet sprays . leafage of ‘ Goldconda ’ is light green in summertime , turn intensely lucky yellow in fall and winter ( even more so than ‘ Castlewellan Gold ’ ) . grow round , brownish female cones and ovoid , yellow virile cones , 1/16 - 1/8 inch long . This vigorous conifer can develop over 100 ft tall , though it commonly make around 80 feet tall and spreads 15 feet under landscape consideration .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
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Planting
If container - grown , lay the tree on its side and remove the container . tease the roots around the edge without breaking up the root globe too much . Position Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in shopping center of hole so that the best side faces ahead . You are ready to start filling in with grease .
If planting a balled and burlaped tree , put it in hole so that the best side faces ahead . loosen or transfer nail from gunny at top of ball and pull gunny back , so it does not stick out of hole when soil is replaced . semisynthetic gunny should be remove as it will not decompose like rude gunny . Larger tree often come in wire baskets . Plant as you would a b&b flora , but cut as much of the telegram by as possible without actually withdraw the basketball hoop . Chances are , you would do more damage to the rootball by remove the handbasket . Simply cut away conducting wire to allow several large openings for source .
Fill both hole with soil the same way . Never amend with less than half original grime . Recent studies show that if your soil is loose enough , you are better off sum footling or no filth amendment .
Create a water supply ring around the outer edge of the gob . Not only will this conseve water , but will calculate moisture to perimeter ascendant , encouraging outer development . Once tree is established , water ring may be leveled . field of study show that mulch trees maturate quicker than those unmulched , so add a 3 " " stratum of pinestraw , compost , or powderize bark over backfilled area . slay any damage limb . How - to : make a HedgeHedges can be coach to be informal with only occasional shaping or to have a more stately shape with heady pruning .
Shear off the peak 2 to 6 inches several times during the first two seasons . Shearing of the top and side of meat will advance branching . A common misunderstanding citizenry make is to cut the sides at a 90 degree slant . In this instance the top growth shades the bottom resulting in a leggy unresolved canopy . It is right to cut the sides at an angle so that they flare out at the bottom . This will assure healthy and compact growth all the elbow room down to the bottom of the bush .
Problems
Prevention and Control : No prevention usable . Control by handpicking or spraying with a recommended insecticide . Birds , beetles and viruses usually keep the sawfly under controller .
Pest : CaterpillarsCaterpillars are the immature form of moths and butterflies . They are ravenous feeder attacking a wide variety of plants . They can be extremely destructive and are characterized as folio feeders , stem borers , leaf curler , cutworm and tent - formers .
Prevention and Control : keep weed down , scout individual plants and remove Caterpillar , enforce labeled insecticides such as soaps and rock oil , take advantage of natural enemy such as parasitical wasp in the garden and utilize Bacillus thuringiensis ( biological war ) for some caterpillar species . Pest : Scale InsectsScales are insects , touch to mealy bugs , that can be a trouble on a wide of the mark variety of plants - indoor and outside . immature surmount crawling until they find a good alimentation site . The grownup females then mislay their legs and remain on a spot protected by its hard scale stratum . They appear as bumps , often on the low sides of leave . They have pierce oral cavity parts that nurse the sap out of flora tissue paper . shell can undermine a flora leading to xanthous foliage and leaf drop . They also produce a seraphic substance called honeydew ( covet by ants ) which can lead to an unattractive black-market surface fungal ontogeny called sooty mold .
Prevention and Control : Once established they are surd to control . Isolate infested plant away from those that are not infested . confer your local garden center professional or Cooperative Extension office in your county for a legal recommendation regarding their ascendence . advance instinctive enemies such as parasitic wasps in the garden . disease : BlightBlights are get by fungi or bacterium that shoot down plant tissue . Symptoms often show up as the rapid catching or wilting of foliage . There are many different blight , specific to various plants , each need a varied method acting of control .
