Low growth , evergreen plant with dumb silverish puritanic foliage and a consistent growth habit . full groundcover for orotund scale of measurement areas . brilliant silver - blue - green foliage . Grows 6 inches by 2 to 3 feet . bring out small round sinister blue fruit . Holds color well in winter . Excellent as a bank concealment for eating away ascendency . Not as vigorous as some type .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
Light
Watering
Planting
cautiously remove shrub from container and gently separate roots . Position in pith of hole , best side facing forward . fill up in with original soil or an better mixture if ask as described above . For larger shrubs , build up a water well . Finish by mulching and watering well .
If the flora is balled - and - burlapped , take fasteners and fold back the top of natural burlap , tucking it down into hole , after you ’ve positioned shrub . Make trusted that all gunny is buried so that it wo n’t wick water off from rootball during hot , ironical periods . If synthetic gunny , take if possible . If not potential , cut away or make slits to allow for root word to modernize into the young soil . For large shrubs , build up a water well . Finish by mulch and watering well .
If shrub is bare - root , take care for a discolouration somewhere near the nucleotide ; this mark is likely where the soil line of business was . If soil is too sandlike or too clayey , add constitutional matter . This will aid with both drain and water property capacity . Fill soil , firming just enough to support shrub . Finish by mulching and watering well .
Problems
Prevention and Control : keep weeds down , scout individual flora and hit Caterpillar , practice labeled insecticides such as soaps and vegetable oil , take advantage of natural enemy such as parasitic white Anglo-Saxon Protestant in the garden and practice Bacillus thuringiensis ( biologic war ) for some caterpillar species . Pest : Leaf MinersLeaf Mineris actually a term that applies to various larva ( of moths , mallet , and flies ) that burrow between upper and crushed folio surfaces , leaving a typical , squiggly convention . A distaff adult can lie several hundred eggs inside the leafage which hatch and give cost increase to miners . folio mineworker onset ornamentals and veggie .
Prevention and Control : Keep weeds down and scout individual plants for tell - story squiggles . Pick and destroy these leaves and take vantage of natural enemy such as parasitic white Anglo-Saxon Protestant . roll in the hay the Growing Degree Days ( GDD ) * for your surface area to target insecticide nebulizer when most good for controlling the specific leaf mineworker . Seek a professional recommendation and follow all label procedures to a tee . * GDD turn should be available from your local Cooperative Extension office .
