Juniper scaly - guest from China

The scaly Juniper native to China. In natural conditions it is an evergreen shrub that reaches a height of five feet. This plant has many garden forms. 

It is very popular because of its hardiness, undemanding to soil fertility and resistance to urban conditions. Juniper scaly recommended for landscaping rock gardens. He has silver-blue needles. This thick branched shrub grows at a moderate rate. Juniper is a dioecious member of the family Cupressaceae. He has black and shiny shishkoyagody, needles up to a length of 0.8 inches, located three whorls. In addition to its decorative properties, juniper has a scaly and medicinal application: used in medicine its fruits - shishkoyagody.

Care and breeding

The Root system of this plant is on the soil surface. In addition, juniper scaly exposed to strong winds, so it is usually planted in closed areas: fences, side by side with other, higher plants. Good growth is observed in the sun or in light shade, in the absence of light color of the needles is markedly pale. Juniper scaly and can withstand high temperature and the winter cold, he is not demanding to the composition of air or water. The soil underneath must be drained. If desired, the bushes can be subjected to hard pruning, after which they have for a few days again restored. This haircut contribute to the formation of dense crown. Juniper scaly propagated by cuttings or planting seeds in loose soil. Rooting and recovery are lengthy processes, sometimes lasting up to two years. Specimens grown from cuttings, have good decorative qualities, they have a more dense crown and dark color of pine needles.

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Grade

The Most popular are varieties such as juniper scaly "Holger", Blue Carpet, Blue Star, "Meyer", etc. they all Have a bluish color of the needles, with the exception only of the variety Golden Flame, whose original brightly-yellow colour is what, in fact, due to its name.

Juniper scaly "Meyer" popular specialists in landscape design. It gives a gain of about 10 centimeters per year, and in its direct, short twigs, shoots in the period of intensive growth hanging down, the tips bluish-silver color. Very elegant on this shrub look its dark-blue cones are usually covered with a waxy bloom. This variety is used to create bonsai. Due to mutations of this sort came to light no less interesting garden forms of juniper such as Blue Carpet, which is a wide, fast-growing creeping shrub. It is recommended to grow in containers on the streets, the roofs of houses. Another kind – Blue Star – used for strengthening of slopes, as well as in the regeneration of borders and rock gardens.

Application

Creeping varieties of juniper are perfect for decorating the original curb-lawn. For rockeries convenient the lowest types, which are light and fit perfectly into the rocky landscape. Equipping your garden space, you need to remember that not all plants can withstand the neighborhood with juniper. The roses, clematis and peonies could be in trouble if they will grow closer than two meters. With Heather or rhododendron juniper, by contrast, is in a very harmonious relationship. When pruning and shaping the shrub caution: be sure to use gloves because the juice of the juniper, when applied to unprotected skin, sometimes has an irritating effect because of the presence of toxic substances. It is impossible to allow children to collect and beautiful shishkoyagody in order to avoid poisoning.