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Juniper - Maney
Junipers are important evergreens for landscape use due to their tolerance of unfavorable soil conditions, their hardiness and great variation in size, habit, color and growth rate. It has a horizontal layered, irregular habit. It is a fast grower and has excellent cold tolerance. This is one of the hardiest medium-sized evergreens and makes an excellent choice for any landscape planting. These plants may also be utilized for background plantings in shrub beds or flower gardens, as specimen plants, in rock gardens or for topiary or espalier purposes. Maney Juniper, Juniperus chinensis 'Maneyi', is a semi-erect juniper that has an attractive blue cast to its foliage, along with gray-green berries in summer. Maney Juniper has a handsome appearance and is medium sized for any planting. Requires a well drained soil in a sunny location, adaptable to different soil pH; tolerates fairly alkaline soils and prefers full sun to part shade. Junipers are used as ground covers, in foundation plantings, or as hedges, screens or windbreaks. This evergreen shrub grow 4-5 feet in height and 5-6 feet in width. ... find out more
Spirea - Sparkling Carpet The plant also likes mulch and summer watering. Sparkling Carpet prefers full sun, and this is one of the easiest shrubs to grow since it tolerates many soils, except extremely wet. Native to China and Japan. Sparkling Carpet Spirea, spiraea japonica 'Sparkling Carpet' (PP13,665), is a fine-textured, small spreading shrub with lime-gold leaves. No pruning is required. It looks like a tiny version of ‘Gold Flame’ and produces few pink flowers in summer. The leaves are bronze-red when young, then turn mahogany-red in fall. Since it grows only 6-10 inches tall and 15-18 inches wide, it can be used as a groundcover or bedding plant! It would also be good for filling a space in a shrub border. |
