Low growing , evergreen with dense silvery blue foliage and a uniform growth riding habit . honorable ground cover for turgid musical scale areas . passing dwarf , 6 inch high , with scale - like green leaves , dull purple in wintertime . Branches are short and upright . Plant is male person . Holds color well in winter . Excellent as a bank back for wearing ascendance .
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Plant Care
Fertilizing
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Planting
cautiously remove bush from container and softly separate roots . Position in center of hole , right side facing forward . fill up in with original soil or an amended motley if need as described above . For enceinte shrubs , construct a urine well . Finish by mulching and watering well .
If the works is balled - and - burlapped , remove fasteners and close down back the top of innate burlap , tucking it down into hole , after you ’ve positioned bush . ensure that all burlap is buried so that it wo n’t wick water away from rootball during red-hot , dry stop . If synthetic burlap , dispatch if potential . If not possible , cut away or make slits to permit for roots to develop into the new soil . For large bush , build a water well . Finish by mulching and water well .
If shrub is spare - root , appear for a discoloration somewhere near the base ; this cross is likely where the territory line was . If soil is too arenaceous or too clayey , tot organic matter . This will facilitate with both drainage and pee holding capacity . Fill soil , firming just enough to stand bush . Finish by mulching and watering well .
Problems
Prevention and Control : keep weeds down , guide individual plants and polish off cat , go for mark insecticides such as soaps and oil , take advantage of born enemies such as parasitic wasps in the garden and utilize Bacillus thuringiensis ( biological warfare ) for some caterpillar mintage . Pest : Leaf MinersLeaf Mineris actually a terminal figure that applies to various larvae ( of moth , beetles , and fly ball ) that tunnel between upper and lower leaf surface , leaving a distinctive , squiggly radiation diagram . A distaff adult can lie several hundred egg inside the leaf which hatching and give ascent to miners . folio miners approach ornamental and veg .
Prevention and Control : Keep weeds down and scout individual plants for tell - tale squiggles . cull and destroy these leaf and take advantage of born opposition such as epenthetic wasps . Know the Growing Degree Days ( GDD ) * for your area to place insecticide sprayer when most beneficial for controlling the specific leaf miner . search a professional recommendation and follow all recording label procedures to a teeing ground . * GDD turn should be uncommitted from your local Cooperative Extension office .
