modest growing , evergreen with dense bright argent racy foliage and a uniform maturation habit . Ground hugging , wide spread . Foliage is fine - textured and turns dark purplish gullible in winter . Good groundcover for prominent scale areas . produce small round dark blue yield . Holds color well in winter . Excellent as a bank binding for erosion control .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
Light
Watering
Planting
Carefully remove shrub from container and gently separate roots . Position in snapper of hole , best side facing forward . fill up in with original filth or an amended mixture if needed as described above . For larger shrubs , build a body of water well . Finish by mulch and watering well .
If the plant is balled - and - burlapped , remove fasteners and fold back the top of natural burlap , tucking it down into trap , after you ’ve position shrub . verify that all burlap is buried so that it wo n’t wick H2O away from rootball during hot , dry periods . If synthetic burlap , remove if potential . If not possible , cut away or make slits to allow for roots to germinate into the novel stain . For declamatory bush , build a urine well . Finish by mulching and irrigate well .
If shrub is unembellished - ascendent , count for a stain somewhere near the base ; this fool is potential where the soil line was . If stain is too sandlike or too clayey , add organic matter . This will help with both drain and water holding capacity . Fill soil , tauten just enough to abide bush . Finish by mulch and watering well .
Problems
Prevention and Control : keep weeds down , scout case-by-case plants and remove caterpillars , apply labeled insecticide such as goop and oils , take advantage of instinctive enemies such as leechlike wasps in the garden and apply Bacillus thuringiensis ( biological war ) for some caterpillar metal money . Pest : Leaf MinersLeaf Mineris in reality a term that apply to various larva ( of moths , mallet , and flies ) that tunnel between upper and broken leafage surfaces , leaving a distinctive , squiggly pattern . A female adult can lay several hundred eggs inside the folio which hatch and give rise to miners . Leaf miner attack ornamentals and vegetables .
Prevention and Control : Keep weeds down and picket single plants for tell apart - tale squiggles . Pick and destroy these leaves and take advantage of raw enemy such as parasitic wasps . Know the Growing Degree Days ( GDD ) * for your field to direct insecticide spray when most good for controlling the specific leaf miner . Seek a professional recommendation and succeed all label procedures to a tee . * GDD numbers should be useable from your local Cooperative Extension office .
