More and more amateur gardeners are givingattention to the design of your site, creating amazing landscapes. Especially good in this respect are plants that are evergreen, retaining their decorative qualities even in cold seasons.
Increasing popularity is gaining varietyconiferous ornamental plants, including the juniper Lime Glou. Any gardener, who loves and is proud of the design of his site, will sooner or later acquire this beautiful original bush, because it looks great both in group plantings and in solitary ones. This is a very effective plant.
Lime Glow (horizontal) - a beautiful creeping dwarf shrub, which has unusual needles, which has a rather pleasant yellow color.
It is a spreading form, a slow-growing plant. The shoots of the bush are radiant, forming a small depression in the center of the bush. The branches are horizontally lying.
Very fine needles, usually having a golden yellow color, become reddish-bronze in autumn, and in the shade, on the contrary, it turns green.
The crown of the plant is rather dense, sprawling,symmetrical, dense and creeping. The growth of this slowly growing plant for the year is about 8-10 millimeters, and for the entire period of its growth - up to about 40 centimeters. Its greatest width is 150 centimeters.
The grayish-brown bark of the bush is smooth, butcracked on very thin plates. The roots are superficial and abundantly branched. Berries and cones do not have this plant. Not sensitive to spring burns needles small (from 10 mm to 20 mm), evergreen, soft, scaly.
The original juniper of Lime Glow is especially beautiful and spectacular among the deciduous and coniferous plants of blue, green and red.
The durability of this grade of horizontal juniper is from 30 to 50 years.
Frost resistance and winter hardiness of juniper Lime Glou very high - from -26,1 deg. down to -23.3.
Gardener should remember that in order to achieveThe brightest saturated coloring should be planted on areas well illuminated. Prefers juniper Lime Glou fresh and most moist loamy soils (can grow both on alkaline and acidic soils).
And the attitude of the plant to moisture is not very demanding. Only in the hot season of the year does Lime Glow need more frequent watering.
Despite its unpretentiousness, juniper, like other plants, responds well to the complex mineral fertilizers introduced into the soil and to shallow (after irrigation) loosening of the soil.
Juniper Lime Glow horizontal has some important features:
- the variety is famous for its ability to keep a dense, dense crown, which does not deteriorate with age, for quite some time;
- well tolerates pruning;
- propagates by cuttings;
- easily adaptable after transplantation;
- does not suffer from lack of humidity (unlike most of the creeping similar golden varieties);
- grows well in the city.
The native land of the plant is the USA (North Carolina), where it became widespread in the arboretum of the State University since 1985 (not officially).
This kind of juniper forshrub groups as a good color accent. It is recommended to plant on slopes, terraces, as a cover plant, and also it is good in planting a pottery plant. Juniper Lime Glow is a magnificent example of a decorative dwarf shrub.
