downhearted growing , evergreen with dense silvery racy foliage and a uniform ontogeny riding habit . Good ground cover for great scale area . propagate form with a bright bluish color that turns light purple in wintertime . Wide spreading , dense , compact contour , 2 feet high by 10 foot wide . farm modest round dark-skinned blue fruit . Holds gloss well in winter . Excellent as a depository financial institution cover for erosion control .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
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Watering
Planting
Carefully remove shrub from container and gently separate root . Position in meat of hole , in force side look fore . Fill in with original soil or an amended mixture if needed as delineate above . For larger shrubs , make a water well . Finish by mulching and watering well .
If the industrial plant is balled - and - burlapped , remove fasteners and close up back the top of natural burlap , pucker it down into hole , after you ’ve lay shrub . check that that all gunny is buried so that it wo n’t wick water away from rootball during hot , dry periods . If synthetic burlap , remove if possible . If not possible , cut away or make slits to permit for tooth root to modernize into the unexampled grunge . For big shrubs , build a water well . Finish by mulch and watering well .
If shrub is bare - root , look for a stain somewhere near the base ; this Deutschmark is potential where the dirt argument was . If ground is too flaxen or too clayey , add constitutive matter . This will aid with both drain and piss keeping capacity . Fill soil , firm just enough to fend for bush . Finish by mulch and watering well .
Problems
Prevention and Control : keep locoweed down , scout private flora and bump off caterpillars , apply labeled insecticides such as easy lay and oils , take reward of natural enemies such as parasitic wasp in the garden and use Bacillus thuringiensis ( biological war ) for some caterpillar mintage . Pest : Leaf MinersLeaf Mineris actually a full term that applies to various larva ( of moths , beetles , and flies ) that burrow between upper and lower leafage surfaces , leaving a classifiable , squiggly design . A female adult can set several hundred ballock inside the foliage which hatch and give rise to mineworker . Leaf miners tone-beginning ornamental and veg .
Prevention and Control : Keep weeds down and spotter single works for differentiate - tale squiggles . Pick and destruct these leafage and take advantage of lifelike opposition such as leechlike wasps . be intimate the Growing Degree Days ( GDD ) * for your area to direct insecticide atomiser when most beneficial for controlling the specific leaf mineworker . Seek a professional testimonial and follow all label procedures to a teeing ground . * GDD numbers should be available from your local Cooperative Extension office .
