To create a beautiful landscape, the most suitable plants were always conifers. The decorative qualities of juniper are preserved throughout the year, which makes it very popular among gardeners.
Common Juniper: Planting and Care
How to grow juniper to envy all neighbors? The rules for planting and care are simple, but they will have to be strictly observed. This variety is very well developed ability to adapt to any kind of soil and conditions. Leaflets-needles in the plant are hard, their upper side is covered with plaque. Due to this raid, a beautiful color game is created. In the autumn they collect pine cones. To do this, simply shake the branches. Fruits can be used as a spice or for medicinal purposes.
Planting juniper in autumn for many gardeners is an indispensable way of planting the site. This plant has several important advantages:
- It has so many varieties and forms. As hedges, pyramidal forms are used, combining them with deciduous plantings, needles. If you want to decorate a rocky surface, dwarf forms are perfect. They have a fairly short trunk, curved branches with a crown in the form of columns. To decorate the plot, the decorative forms of the plant are especially used: globular, grooved, with decorative coloring of the needles.
- Winter hardiness. In addition to the fact that juniper is very unpretentious, planting and leaving do not require special efforts, it also tolerates frosts.
- During the year, the plant will retain its decorative features, the color of the needles will not change.
- It is especially useful to plant juniper where the soil is loose. It perfectly strengthens it due to the features of the root system. If the place is close to the water source, be sure to take care of the preliminary drainage. Carefully choose a place for planting, as the plant does not like when it is disturbed and transplanted.
How to grow juniper?
Here are the basic tips for how to grow juniper without difficulty:
- Feed in seedlings in the spring for each planting. Each plant has 30 grams of nitroammophoska.
- Watering juniper after planting should be abundant - about 20 liters of water. In the dry season it is necessary to water three times with additional spraying once a week, in the evening. Young plants in dry weather should be watered more often.
- Do not forget after weeding and watering loosen the ground near the young plants.
- Never plant a juniper near the hawthorn bushes, pears or rowan. These plants can be carriers of fungal parasite. As a consequence, the plant will be covered with "rust".
- For successful wintering, no shelter or special preparation will be required. It is enough just to tie pyramidal forms, you can periodically shake off the snow from them.
When is it better to plant juniper?
The most suitable period is the end of October. Dig a hole 1x1m in size. Lay the following mixture: peat, sand, coniferous land. All mixed in the same proportions.
It is a photophilous and drought-resistant plant. Planting and caring for ordinary juniper will not cause difficulties, since the plant, even to the soil, is not exacting. Of course, if you prepare sufficiently rich and easy soil in advance, your seedling will surprise with its development.
What juniper plant in the fall? Remember that adult plants that have already reached optimal sizes, get accustomed much worse than young. If it is necessary to plant single plants, then it is better to use tree and wide-spread varieties. For the alpine slide, it is preferable to take the laying junipers.