More and more gardening enthusiasts are paying attention to the design of their site, creating amazing landscape works. Especially good in this regard are evergreens, retaining their decorativeness in the cold seasons.
A variety of coniferous ornamental plants, including Juniper Lime Glow, are gaining more and more popularity. Any gardener who loves and takes pride in the design of his plot will sooner or later acquire this beautiful original bush, because it looks great both in group plantings and in single ones. This is a very effective plant.
Juniper Lime Glow: photo, description
Lime Glow (horizontal) - a beautiful creeping dwarf shrub, which has an unusual needles, which has a pretty nice yellow color.
It is a spreading, slow-growing plant. The shoots of the bush are radiant, forming a small depression in the center of the bush. His branches are horizontally lying.
Very small needles, usually having a golden yellow color, become reddish-bronze in the fall, and in the shade it, on the contrary, turns green.
The crown of the plant is quite dense, sprawling, symmetrical, dense and creeping. The growth of this slow-growing plant per year is about 8-10 millimeters, and for the entire period of its growth - up to about 40 centimeters. Its greatest width reaches 150 centimeters.
The grayish-brown bark of the shrub is smooth, but cracking into very thin plates. The roots are superficial and plentifully branched. This plant does not have berries and cones. Small needles, insensitive to spring burns, are small (from 10 mm to 20 mm), evergreen, soft, scaly.
The original Juniper Lime Glow looks especially beautiful and spectacular among deciduous and coniferous plants of blue, green and red colors.
The durability of this variety of horizontal juniper is from 30 to 50 years.
Growing conditions
Frost and winter hardiness of Lyme Glow juniper is very high - from -26.1 degrees. to -23.3.
Gardeners should remember that in order to achieve the brightest saturated color, it must be planted in areas well lit. Juniper Lyme Glow prefers fresh and wettest loamy soils (can grow on both alkaline and acidic soils).
And the moisture ratio of the plant is not very demanding. It is only during the hot season that Lyme Glow needs more frequent watering.
Despite its unpretentiousness, juniper, like other plants, responds well to complex mineral fertilizers introduced into the soil and to shallow (after irrigation) loosening of the soil.
Features
Juniper horizontal Lime Glow has some important features:
- the variety is famous for its ability to maintain a dense, dense crown for a rather long time, which does not thin out with age;
- tolerates pruning well;
- propagated by cuttings;
- It adapts quite easily after transplantation;
- does not suffer from a lack of air humidity (unlike most creeping similar gold varieties);
- grows well in the conditions of the city.
