Juniper, Hollywood Oriental Pompon Juniperus chinensis 'Torulosa' Height: 15 feet Spread: 10 feet
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Hardiness Zone: 4a Description: Pompons are pruned & trained from a young age to create appearance. You prune and maintain the look controlling the size it gets. Ornamental Features Juniper, Hollywood Oriental Pompon is a dwarf conifer which is primarily valued in the landscape for its rigidly columnar form. It has attractive dark green evergreen foliage. The twisted scale-like sprays of foliage are highly ornamental and remain dark green throughout the winter. It produces silvery blue berries from mid summer to late winter. The twisted gray bark is extremely showy and adds significant winter interest. Landscape Attributes Juniper, Hollywood Oriental Pompon is a multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a narrowly upright and columnar growth habit. It lends an extremely fine and delicate texture to the landscape composition which can make it a great accent feature on this basis alone. This is a relatively low maintenance shrub, and can be pruned at anytime. Deer don't particularly care for this plant and will usually leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. It has no significant negative characteristics. Juniper, Hollywood Oriental Pompon is recommended for the following landscape applications; Planting & Growing Juniper, Hollywood Oriental Pompon will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 10 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a slow rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years. This shrub does best in full sun to partial shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. This plant should be periodically fertilized throughout the active growing season with a specially-formulated acidic fertilizer. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America. Clean up Rating (1-5) 1=least effort 5=most effort Clean Up Ratings (2): Interior foliage can be raked up and bagged and seeds can be blown or raked onto the lawn and mowed or bagged. In the autumn few to some small cones can fall and can shed some inner foliage. Evergreens need to be watered during the winter. Our desert climate especially in late winter to early spring evergreens can suffer during next growing season. An easy way to remember check for dryness on the holidays Halloween, Thanksgiving, New Year's Day, Valentines Day & Easter. During the growing season maintain regular deep watering.
