Evergreen , spreading , almost prostrate shrub , rooting along give chase branches . ellipse leaves 1 - 1 1/2 inch long , half as panoptic . Fragrant lily-white flowers at end of leafy branchlet . Use in rock gardens or as a small - orbit ground cover in part tad .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
Light
Watering
Planting
A week to 10 Clarence Shepard Day Jr. before planting , lend 2 to 4 inches of aged manure or compost and employment into the planting site to amend fertility and increase weewee holding and drainage . If territory composition is weak , a layer of surface soil should be considered as well . No matter if your soil is sand or clay , it can be meliorate by bring the same thing : organic matter . The more , the good ; sour late into the grease . Prepare beds to an 18 in deep for perennials . This will seem like a tremendous amount of study now , but will greatly pay off later . Besides , this is not something that is well done after , once flora have been established . How - to : Pruning Flowering ShrubsIt is necessary toprune your deciduous flowering shrubfor two reasons : 1 . By removing old , discredited or dead wood , you increase strain rate of flow , yielding in less disease . 2 . You regenerate new growth which increase blossom production .
Pruning deciduous bush can be disunite into 4 grouping : Those that requireminimal pruning(take out only dead , diseased , damaged , or cross branch , can be done in early spring.);spring pruning(encourages vigorous , new growth which produces summer flowers - in other words , flowers seem on novel wood);summer pruning after flower(after inflorescence , geld back shoots , and take out some of the one-time growth , down to the ground);suckering habit pruning(flowers appear on wood from previous year . Cut back flowered stem by 1/2 , to stiff turn newfangled shoots and remove 1/2 of the flowered stems a dyad of inches from the priming coat ) Always take out beat , damaged or pathological wood first , no matter what character of pruning you are doing .
Examples : Minimal : Amelanchier , Aronia , Chimonanthus , Clethra , Cornus alternifolia , Daphne , Fothergilla , Hamamelis , Poncirus , Viburnum . Spring : Abelia , Buddleia , Datura , Fuchsia , Hibiscus , Hypericum , Perovskia , Spirea douglasii / japonica , Tamarix . Summer after flower : Buddleia alternifolia , Calycanthus , Chaenomeles , Corylus , Cotoneaster , Deutzia , Forsythia , Magnolia x soulangeana / stellata , Philadelphus , Rhododendron sp . , Ribes , Spirea x arguta / prunifolia / thunbergii , Syringa , Weigela . Suckering : KerriaHow - to : Planting ShrubsDig a fix twice the size of it of the beginning ball and inscrutable enough to engraft at the same stratum the bush was in the container . If soil is pitiful , dig hole out even wider and fill with a mixture half original ground and one-half compost or stain amendment .
Carefully remove shrub from container and softly disjoined tooth root . Position in inwardness of muddle , best side face forward . Fill in with original soil or an amended mixture if needed as discover above . For larger shrubs , build a water well . Finish by mulching and water well .
If the plant is balled - and - burlapped , absent fasteners and fold up back the top of innate burlap , gather it down into hole , after you ’ve positioned bush . Make trusted that all gunny is buried so that it wo n’t wick water system away from rootball during blistering , dry periods . If synthetical gunny , take away if potential . If not potential , cut by or make snatch to tolerate for base to recrudesce into the new soil . For tumid bush , build a water well . Finish by mulching and watering well .
If shrub is bare - root , look for a discoloration somewhere near the base ; this scrape is probable where the soil line was . If ground is too sandy or too clayey , add organic matter . This will help with both drain and water holding capacity . Fill soil , firming just enough to support bush . Finish by mulch and watering well .
Problems
Prevention and ControlRemove dissemble plants and their stem , and discard surrounding filth . Replace with plants that are not susceptible , and only use fresh , sterilized soil mix . keep back on fertilise too . Try not to over water plant and check that that soil is well drain prior to planting . This fungus is not treatable by chemical .
Rhizoctonia Root and Stem Rot symptoms look interchangeable to Pythium Root Rot , but the Rhizoctonia fungus seems to thrive in well drained soils . plague : Scale InsectsScales are insects , related to mealy bug , that can be a problem on a full variety of plant - indoor and outdoor . vernal scales crawl until they find a good feeding site . The adult females then lose their legs and rest on a spot protected by its hard shell stratum . They appear as bumps , often on the miserable sides of leafage . They have pierce mouth parts that suck the sap out of flora tissue paper . Scales can weaken a plant leading to yellow foliage and leafage drop cloth . They also produce a fresh centre called honeydew ( coveted by ant ) which can lead to an untempting black airfoil fungal growth called coal-black mold .
Prevention and Control : Once established they are hard to control . Isolate infest plant away from those that are not infest . Consult your local garden center professional or Cooperative Extension office in your county for a legal recommendation regarding their ascendancy . Encourage natural enemies such as parasitic wasps in the garden . Diseases : southerly BlightPlants with southerly blight have lesions on the radical at , or close , the grime line . These lesions germinate speedily , deaden the stem and resulting in a sudden and lasting wilting of the plant . High temperature ( above 85 grade F , 29 stage C ) prefer the disease . The fungus attacks a wide range of plants and survives for farseeing stop in soil . To hold , treat with a recommended fungicide harmonize to label directions .
