Blue Rug Juniper Pests

Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 through 9.

Blue rug juniper pests. Cedar apple rust galls at dormancy in winter early telial horn emergence and full telial horn emergence in the spring. Blue rug juniper juniperus horizontalis wiltonii is a type of creeping juniper that thrives in u s. Blue rug juniper juniperus horizontalis wiltonii is a drought tolerant ground cover that craves good soil drainage this juniper is a practical solution for sunny slopes where water runs off so quickly that plants are apt to go thirsty. Junipers are coniferous evergreen plants and can be grown as trees shrubs or ground covers.

Blue rug juniper can be grown in planting zones 3 to 9. It is caused by a soil borne fungus phytophthora cinnamomi and the most common symptom is the slow decline of the plant leaves on the plant will become thin or sparse. This root rot is one of the most serious and difficult to control fungal diseases that affects a wide range of plants in south carolina. Some plants may die one branch at a time until the entire plant dies.

Cedar quince or cedar hawthorn rust gall at a very young stage and an older gall with telial horn emergence. Blue rug juniper is a hardy evergreen plant with silvery blue foliage that can take on a purple tone in the winter months.