Outstanding , evergreen plant shrub with heavy , good branch clothed in acutely pointed , shining green needles . Requires little maintenance . Very problematical flora . Low growing , 18 inches to 2 feet tall , wide broadcast to 9 feet or more . Blue - greenish leaf , blue cones . resistive to juniper blight . branch have a whip - like appearance . encounter on seashores throughout Japan .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
Light
Watering
Planting
cautiously slay bush from container and softly separate tooth root . Position in centre of muddle , good side facing forward . make full in with original soil or an amended intermixture if need as identify above . For larger shrubs , build a water system well . Finish by mulch and water well .
If the plant is balled - and - burlapped , withdraw holdfast and fold up back the top of natural burlap , tucking it down into yap , after you ’ve pose shrub . check that that all burlap is buried so that it wo n’t wick weewee aside from rootball during spicy , dry menstruation . If synthetic gunny , remove if potential . If not possible , cut away or make twat to let for roots to modernize into the young soil . For larger shrub , build a urine well . Finish by mulching and water well .
If shrub is nude - ascendant , count for a discolouration somewhere near the cornerstone ; this fool is likely where the soil occupation was . If grunge is too flaxen or too clayey , add organic matter . This will aid with both drainage and water property capacity . Fill grunge , tauten just enough to put up shrub . Finish by mulching and watering well .
Problems
Prevention and Control : Plant resistant variety and provide maximum air circulation . Clean up all debris , especially around plants that have had a problem . Do not water from smash and water only during the daytime so that plant will have enough clip to dry before night . Apply a fungicide tag for rust on your flora . Pest : CaterpillarsCaterpillars are the unfledged soma of moth and butterfly . They are edacious feeders attack a wide variety of plants . They can be extremely destructive and are qualify as leafage feeders , stem borers , leaf rollers , cutworm and tent - former .
Prevention and Control : keep mourning band down , scout individual plants and remove caterpillar , enforce labeled insecticides such as soaps and oils , take vantage of innate enemies such as bloodsucking wasps in the garden and use Bacillus thuringiensis ( biological warfare ) for some caterpillar species . Pest : Leaf MinersLeaf Mineris actually a terminus that applies to various larva ( of moths , beetles , and flies ) that tunnel between upper and lower leaf surfaces , allow for a distinctive , squiggly pattern . A distaff grownup can lay several hundred bollock inside the leaf which hachure and give rise to mineworker . Leaf miners attack ornamental and vegetable .
Prevention and Control : Keep weed down and sentinel individual plants for tell - tale squiggles . Pick and destroy these leaf and take reward of natural enemies such as parasitic wasp . Know the Growing Degree Days ( GDD ) * for your area to target insecticide sprays when most beneficial for controlling the specific leafage miner . search a professional recommendation and observe all label procedures to a golf tee . * GDD identification number should be uncommitted from your local Cooperative Extension role .
