Juniper Holger (Holger) is a favoritecollectors 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.
A low spreading evergreen shrub withwide dense crown, growing to a height of 0.8 m, in diameter - 1.5-2 m. Shoots of juniper hanging down. Needles are acicular, whitish-blue, variegated, not changing color in winter. Spring foliage with a slightly yellowish tint on the tips, in the summer it becomes gray-green.
Juniper Holger prefers solaropen areas, but it grows in the penumbra. The shrubbery is 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.
The plants grown in the container before plantingshould be well watered. The pit should be made more 1,5-2 times than the container. In severe soil and groundwater is shallow necessary to arrange expanded clay or gravel drainage layer of which - 20 cm Fill planting hole is desirable to mix excavated soil and peat in the 1:. 1. 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 must be watered abundantly, and the stock circle should be covered with peat or bark.
Juniper Holger (photo attached to the article) -the grade is frost-resistant. 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 should 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.
In the year of planting juniper is needed more oftenwatering, because the root system is compact and is capable of independently from the soil consume the nutrients and moisture. Later in the dry season it is recommended to water one or two times a week, especially young bushes. To slow the evaporation of moisture from the surface mulching produce chips (layer 5-7 cm) or pine bark. So watering can be done much less often - when the surface of the soil dries.
In the spring (in April-May) they make top dressingnitroammophous or complex mineral fertilizers. In October, fertilizers are potassium-phosphorus fertilizers. 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).
