Juniper Holger: description

Juniper Holger (Holger) is a favorite of collectors of garden rarities and budding gardeners. A compact, dense, sprawling bush gains sympathy at first sight with its neat form and saturated color, as if shimmering in different shades. It looks great in compositions with colored mulch (bark, chips, pebbles on agrotkani), on pebbles, used for landscaping of rock gardens, stony areas. Possessing high disinfecting, insecticidal and phytoncidal properties, the plant clears air from many pathogenic bacteria.

Juniper Holger: description

A low spreading evergreen shrub with a wide dense crown, growing to a height of 0.8 m, in diameter - 1.5-2 m. Shrub shoots hanging down. Needle is acicular, whitish-blue, variegated, does not change color in winter. Spring foliage with a slightly yellowish tint on the tips, in the summer it becomes gray-green.

Optimal growing conditions

Juniper Holger prefers sunny open areas, but grows in partial shade. The bushes are unpretentious to soils, but more prefer weakly acidic loose, well drained, loamy or sandy loamy. Allowed a small salinity. It is a frost-resistant and quite drought-resistant variety, resistant to urban conditions and harmful emissions.

Juniper Holger does not require pruning, but in the spring it is possible to produce sanitary pruning.

The shrub is decorative not only in solitary plantings, but also in small and large landscapes, it is great for landscaping balconies, roofs and terraces.

Landing

The plants grown in the container before planting should be well watered. The pit should be made more 1,5-2 times than the container. In case of heavy soil and close groundwater occurrence it is necessary to arrange a drainage of gravel or claydite, the layer of which is 20 cm. It is desirable to fill the pit with a mixture of excavated soil and peat in a 1: 1 ratio. In the resulting mixture it is recommended to add complex mineral fertilizers. This layer will allow better germination of the roots in the soil. The root collar of the seedling is left located at the ground level. After planting, the plant should be watered abundantly, and the stock circle should be covered with peat or bark.

Wintering

Juniper Holger (photo attached to the article) - frost-resistant variety. But in the early spring, when the sun shines brightly, and the soil has not completely thawed out, it is possible to burn the needles of young plants. To prevent this, plants in January and February must be "shaded" with agrofiber or fir-tree lapnika. The shelter is removed after thawing the soil. It is better to do it on a calm, cloudy day.

Care of a juniper

In the year of planting, junipers need to be watered more often, since the root system is compact and not capable of consuming nutrients and moisture from the soil alone. Later in the dry season, it is recommended to water one or two times a week, especially young bushes. For a slower evaporation, moisture from the surface of the earth is produced by mulching with chips (5-7 cm layer) or pine bark. So watering can be done much less often - when the surface of the soil dries.

In the spring (in April-May), feeding is done with nitroammophous or complex mineral fertilizers. In October, potash and phosphorus fertilizers are introduced. If the plants are affected by fungal diseases, the treatment with fungicides ("Fundazol", "Ordan"). In April-May, preventive treatment against fungal diseases 1% Bordeaux fluid. When juniper is damaged by pests (aphids, caterpillars) bushes are treated with insecticides ("Confidor", "Aktara"). Treatment is carried out twice (an interval of 7-10 days).