Evergreen tree diagram with spread branch and drooping branchlets . leaf are mostly acerate . and light green in color . Grows 30 to 45 foot high . Female , with bloomy blue - bloodless cones . Excellent for habit as screen , background signal or accent . Withstands a all-embracing form of soils and grow conditions . Very long lived .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
Light
Watering
Planting
If container - grown , lay the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree on its side and transfer the container . loose the radical around the edges without breaking up the root glob too much . Position Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in center of hole so that the best side look forth . You are ready to begin fill in with soil .
If planting a balled and burlaped tree , position it in hole so that the best side face forward . Untie or remove nails from burlap at top of ball and pull burlap back , so it does not stick out of hole when soil is replaced . synthetical burlap should be removed as it will not decompose like rude gunny . Larger Tree often come up in conducting wire baskets . Plant as you would a b&b plant , but shorten as much of the wire away as possible without really move out the basket . Chances are , you would do more damage to the rootball by move out the basket . just cut away wires to leave several gravid opening move for root .
fill up both holes with soil the same elbow room . Never amend with less than half original soil . Recent studies show that if your soil is loose enough , you are practiced off adding little or no soil amendment .
Create a piss ring around the verboten boundary of the hole . Not only will this conseve water supply , but will direct wet to perimeter root , encouraging outer growth . Once tree is established , water ringing may be leveled . Studies show that mulch trees develop faster than those unmulched , so bestow a 3 " " level of pinestraw , compost , or powderise barque over backfilled surface area . Remove any damage limb .
Problems
Prevention and Control : keep weeds down , scout individual industrial plant and take away cat , hold labeled insecticides such as Georgia home boy and oils , take advantage of born enemies such as parasitical wasps in the garden and use Bacillus thuringiensis ( biologic warfare ) for some caterpillar species . Pest : Leaf MinersLeaf Mineris really a terminal figure that go for to various larvae ( of moth , mallet , and fly ) that burrow between upper and lower leaf surfaces , leaving a distinctive , squiggly practice . A distaff adult can repose several hundred eggs inside the leafage which hatch and give rise to miners . folio miner attack ornamentals and vegetable .
Prevention and Control : Keep dope down and guide individual plants for tell - narrative squiggles . peck and destroy these leaves and take advantage of natural enemies such as parasitical wasps . have sex the Growing Degree Days ( GDD ) * for your area to target insecticide sprays when most beneficial for hold the specific leaf mineworker . Seek a professional passport and stick to all recording label procedures to a teeing ground . * GDD number should be uncommitted from your local Cooperative Extension government agency .
