Juniper

Description

Crawford Nursery & Garden Center carries a variety of Juniper plants

• Blue Pacific Juniper
• Blue Rug Juniper
• Grey Owl Juniper
• Parsoni Juniper

Blue Pacific Shore Juniper (Juniperus conferta ‘Blue Pacific’)

Blue Pacific Shore Juniper is a dwarf form that grows to 6 feet tall and from 3 to 5 feet wide.  It will root as it spreads.  Leaves grow less than 1/2 inch long and have a blue tint.  All juvenile foliage.  Has a white line underneath the leaves.  Blue Pacific needs full sun with at least 6 hours per day and is drought tolerant and cold hardy to New England.  It is slow growing.  Because the branches will root down, this plan can be used to stabilize banks.  Salt spray tolerant.  Have seen used extensively on Jekyll Island, Georgia.

Blue Rug Juniper (Juniperus horizontalis ‘Wiltonii’)

Blue Rug Juniper grows only up to 3 feet tall and 3 to 4 feet wide.  All adult foliage (not sticky) with a blue tint.  This plant is very cold hardy (Canada to Florida) and drought tolerant.  Needs full sun and is slow growing.  Very popular juniper for a groundcover.

Grey Owl (Juniperus virginiana)

Grey Owl is low maintenance and easily grown in average, medium well-drained soil in full sun.  Tolerant of a wide variety of soils.  Also tolerant of wind and of many city air pollutants.  This eastern red cedar cultivar is a broad, slow-growing evergreen shrub with a compact wide-spreading habit which typically grows up to 3 feet tall (infrequently larger) and to 6 feet wide.  Features scale-like silver gray foliage.  A female form which produces profuse glaucous berry-like cones which are attractive to birds.  This plant may be a hybrid, but is usually listed for sale as a cultivar of Juniperus virginiana.  This plant is susceptible to bagworms and cedar apple rust.  Resists Phomopsis twig blight.  Garden uses include specimen, shrub bordar or hedge, mass for windbreaks or screens.

Parson’s Chinese Juniper (Juniperus chinensis ‘Parsoni’)

Parson’s Chinese Juniper is lush, beautiful and tough as nails.  Juniper ‘Parsoni’ is an ideal problem-solver for many difficult sites.  It is derived from Chinese juniper (juniperus chinensis), a highly variable species found throughout China and Japan.  Juniper’s diversity of form has led to the creation of numerous cultivars of different shapes, sizes and color variations.  Parson’s juniper forms a low wide-spreading mound of scaled, evergreen blue-tinted foliage which is reported to hold its color well through the cold temperatures of winter.  Small blue berry-like fruits appear on female plants and are enjoyed by many birds.  Junipers are low-maintenance shrubs which prefer full sun and are not picky about soil fertility.  Good drainage is essential as they cannot tolerate saturated ground.  The wide-spreading form and attractive cool-toned foliage of ‘Parsoni’ makes it a perfect groundcover choice for dry difficult areas such as hillsides or unirrigated foundation beds.

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