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Juniper is a plant of an evergreen type that is long-lived, and its appearance resembles a miniature cypress
The life of a plant is up to three thousand years. Juniper is famous for its healing and other positive properties. It is through this plant in folk medicine that a variety of skin diseases are treated. Juniper also has an excellent effect on the treatment of diseases such as asthma and tuberculosis.
Among its other characteristics, it is worth highlighting the excellent ability to reduce stress and eliminate depression, and calm the nervous system. This effect is achieved due to the content in its composition of a large amount of essential oils that have a tart and pleasant smell.
In addition, heather is another interesting plant that exists. This is the Turkic name for various varieties of large-sized tree junipers. In literature, veres also often has another name - archa. Such a plant is very fond of light and sun, and also has excellent indicators of drought tolerance. Juniper or heres lives for about six hundred years.
Planting and caring for a plant
Landscape designers often use juniper in their projects, primarily due to the fact that such plants have a lot of positive characteristics. These include the softness of needles of various shades, a subtle attractive smell, and unpretentiousness in relation to soil and weather conditions. As a rule, junipers begin to be planted in those places where the sun's rays get the most. Otherwise, in the case of development in the shady part, junipers will take on a loose appearance and lose their shape.
The distance between plants should be at least half a meter if the junipers are small and low. In a situation with adult junipers, the distance increases to two meters. It is worth remembering that junipers cannot be planted without soaking them with water before this procedure. The planting hole should be twice the size of the earthen coma. Junipers do not have a lot of requirements and rules for the soil in which they will be planted. The main condition that must be met when planting them is the introduction of "Kemira-wagon" or nitroammofoska during the spring, and specifically - the end of April-mid-May.
During the summer season, when there is a drought, the juniper should be watered only a couple of times. If the summer period is rainy, then there is no need to water the juniper.
Many summer residents plant young plant seedlings in their garden. In such a situation, attention should be paid to loosening the earth after watering and weeding procedures. After the juniper is planted, it is necessary to mulch the ground with chips, pine bark or peat. The layer here is approximately eight centimeters. Heat-loving plants are mulched for the winter. Since the growth and development of the juniper has a slow pace, the cutting of the plant is carried out as carefully as possible. You can remove dried branches not only in summer, but also in winter.
Reproduction
Since the juniper belongs to the dioecious type of plant, it can be propagated in two ways - vegetative or seed. For this, a special procedure is used, called grafting. The first fruits of the juniper can be seen already in the season from August to October. They are cone-shaped berries with a diameter of slightly less than one centimeter.
In order to competently carry out the process of growing juniper bushes from seed, they should be stratified. It is best to plant seeds in special containers with soil in the fall. Then you need to place these boxes on the street under a layer of snow. They are left there for the entire winter season. But there is one drawback - you cannot get decorative forms of juniper in this way. Therefore, the grafting method is more popular in this case.
For this purpose, cuttings about ten centimeters long are cut from a ten-year-old plant. From the bottom it is necessary to cut off the needles, about five centimeters. Then the bark is trimmed and lowered for 24 hours into the Heteroauxin solution. Cuttings are planted in the beds only in the month of June, after which they hibernate in the open ground, covered with spruce branches. As a result, the juniper should grow for two years, and only then get into the garden to a permanent place, where it will delight you with its evergreen, eye-pleasing appearance.
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