How to plant a juniper in the fall?

Many designers and owners of summer cottages like junipers - evergreen plants with a pleasant aroma and soft needles of various colors. In the people they are also called northern cypresses. They grow better in sunny places, in the shade of decorativeness and beautiful form is lost.

How to plant a juniper

If you decide to decorate your site with juniper, it is best to purchase young seedlings in containers, the volume of which is 3-5 liters. Larger specimens are harder to plant, and they do not take root well.

Juniper is excavated from the ground together with an earthen lump and sold in sacked or polypropylene bags. When planting such junipers it is important not to destroy this lump, as the roots of these plants are very tender and can easily be injured without earth.

Often, gardeners, who for some reason need to transplant the juniper growing on the site, are asked questions, whether it is possible to transplant it in the fall, and how this is best done.

Juniper planting dates

This type of plant has one interesting feature: they build up the root system twice a year, first in the spring, and then in the middle of summer. Because of hot weather, it is not recommended to plant junipers in summer, although container specimens can be planted in summer, excluding the hottest days. As practice shows, junipers should be planted ideally in early spring or late autumn, and this will be correct.

Northern cypresses like to live in spacious, so they should be planted less often. Between low plants distance should be not less than half a meter, and junipers with a splendid spreading crown planted two meters apart.

The landing pit for junipers should be 2-3 times larger than the earthen plant. The bottom should be drained from the fragments of bricks and sand in a layer of 14-20 cm and fill it with a mixture of sand, forest litter, peat and the upper fertile land.

When planting, the open roots of the juniper should be placed horizontally. The plant with an earthen lump is gently removed from the container and installed in a watered-up planting pit, and then covered with earth. In this case, the depth of planting should be the same as in the container (the root neck of the juniper protrudes above the soil surface).

After planting, the juniper is poured into grooves made around, and the near-trunk circle is necessarily covered with forest litter or humus. If the plant is small, then it is tied to pegs.

The juniper's crown is most often formed by itself, but the plant also tolerates the haircut well and can become a worthy specimen in the topiary garden .