Dense , upright in habit . Can grow 10 to 15 feet gamey with bluish - white foliage near the peak . A miserable plant in American gardens . easygoing to grow in a wide-eyed compass of ethnic weather .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
Light
Watering
Planting
Carefully remove shrub from container and gently freestanding roots . Position in nerve centre of hole , best side face forward . Fill in with original soil or an amended mixture if necessitate as described above . For with child shrubs , work up a piss well . Finish by mulching and watering well .
If the plant life is ball - and - burlapped , remove fasteners and fold back the top of natural gunny , tucking it down into kettle of fish , after you ’ve positioned shrub . check that that all gunny is buried so that it wo n’t wick pee away from rootball during red-hot , ironical periods . If synthetic gunny , remove if potential . If not possible , cut away or make slits to allow for roots to modernise into the new soil . For prominent shrubs , build up a water well . Finish by mulching and watering well .
If shrub is spare - stem , look for a stain somewhere near the base ; this mark is likely where the filth personal line of credit was . If grunge is too sandy or too clayey , total organic topic . This will avail with both drainage and water holding capacitance . Fill soil , tauten just enough to support shrub . Finish by mulching and water well .
Problems
Prevention and Control : keep mourning band down , spotter individual plants and take out caterpillars , apply labeled insect powder such as soaps and oils , take reward of natural foeman such as parasitic wasps in the garden and use Bacillus thuringiensis ( biologic warfare ) for some caterpillar species . Pest : Leaf MinersLeaf Mineris actually a terminal figure that applies to various larvae ( of moths , beetles , and tent flap ) that tunnel between upper and lower leaf surfaces , exit a distinctive , squiggly formula . A female adult can lay several hundred orchis inside the leaf which hatch and give rise to miner . Leaf miners attack ornamental and vegetables .
Prevention and Control : Keep locoweed down and guide individual plants for say - tale curlicue . Pick and destroy these leaf and take vantage of raw enemy such as parasitic wasps . Know the Growing Degree Days ( GDD ) * for your arena to point insecticide atomiser when most good for control the specific leaf miner . Seek a professional recommendation and follow all label procedures to a golf tee . * GDD numbers should be available from your local Cooperative Extension office .
