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Posted by cferris26 MI (My Page) on Tue, Jun 28, 05 at 11:36
| I am extremely new to gardening and need help! I planted two of these junipers in front of the house in full sun. I am watering them about every other day, more or less depending on the soil. For some reason one of the plants' edges have all turned brown.The edges are dead looking, very brittle and falling off...the inside is still pretty green ...HELP what should i do? can i just cut off the edges? fertilize? i don't want the same thing to happen to the other one. |
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RE: dwarf japanese garden juniper
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| I've got this on one of my junipers so a quick Google brought up this; http://www.gov.on.ca/OMAFRA/english/crops/facts/jundiebk.htm I've already clipped out the dead section but I would recommend juniperus Repanda which is unaffected and seems most resistant to the droughty weather we have been having. |
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| Any ideas where to buy horizontal juniper in Australia? |
RE: dwarf japanese garden juniper
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- Posted by Ron_B USDA 8 WA (My Page) on
Sun, Jul 10, 05 at 17:36
| Here this is one of those plants that is produced in quantity out of state, is shipped in looking good, purchased and planted out - to soon blight off and dwindle away. Apparently the growers are using cultural methods that prevent problems that make it almost hopeless here. Blazing sunshine and perfect drainage may make it more reliable. |
RE: dwarf japanese garden juniper
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Did you break the rootball apart when you planted it? Junipers are dry sandy soil plants requiring rapid drainage and are mycorrhizae based, which conversely needs a temperature change of about 12 degrees to survive with high gaseous exchange. I would suspect that either not enough moisture got into the rootball or too much water has been applied.
You could try puting a shade or frost blanket overtop for a while to retain the humidity, ease the high sun. Don't fertilize. |
RE: dwarf japanese garden juniper
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- Posted by Ron_B USDA 8 WA (My Page) on
Tue, Jul 12, 05 at 22:03
| It's a pathogen, more than one blight is common on junipers. Keeping the plant damp would probably just make it worse. Search "juniper blight", for starters. |
RE: dwarf japanese garden juniper
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| I couldn't get the conferta, but can get repanda. I am glad you think it likes the dry weather as we had alot of that last summer. It is winter here at the moment. |
RE: dwarf japanese garden juniper
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| Actually spreading junipers will grow in virtually any soil. I'm in Denver, CO and have them planted in a heavy clay augmented with bit of top soil, and they grow like weeds with adequate H2O. The southwest facing section of 'lawn' is nothing but a sea of Prince of Wales Junipers. It bakes in the summer sun at our altitude 5280'. Takes about 1/3rd the water of a normal lawn. The link is a pic, we're getting ready to give it it's once a year shearing |
Here is a link that might be useful: Pic of south 'lawn'
RE: dwarf japanese garden juniper
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| I think Ron is ion the right path. Watering every day is killing your junipers. I have 5 plants. Two have been planted in about half shade for 4-5 years and are six feet wide and spreading. I have 3 others in a sunnier location for 2-3 years and are starting to spread. I water once a week heaviliy if it doesn't rain and all 5 are bright green. I have many Blue Rugs and I like this as they are brighter. Yesteday I planted 10 more, all on slopes for erosion control and I am sure they will be spreading and mounding in a couple of years. Never fertilize any shrubs of trees. The advice from Edzard is good for anything you plant. The tendency especially with spreading plants like the dwarf juniper is to start growing in circles. If not cut and abused a little they will continue to spiral and choke. All brown wet roots are dead and should be cut or pulled off. Wet in good at planting and mulch all around and not at the base of plant and they cannot help but thrive. I have 25 blue rug and dwarf juinpers and never lost one and they all thrive. Jon
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RE: dwarf japanese garden juniper
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- Posted by bboy USDA 8 Sunset 5 WA (My Page) on
Tue, Sep 29, 09 at 14:06
| >Never fertilize any shrubs of trees< Depends, as with all plantings on the specific situation. Soils vary widely in mineral content, gardened sites in coastal areas are often too low in nitrogen for good growth of trees and shrubs. Starved-looking trees and shrubs are very common in my area, one of those that often needs some nitrogen supplementation. Some extensive inland areas are chronically low in phosphorus. |
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