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Well over 100 different cultivars have been selected for use as ornamental plants in gardens, their strictly prostrate growth habit being valued for ground cover. Popular examples include 'Bar Harbor', 'Blue Acres', 'Emerald Spreader', 'Green Acres', and 'Wiltonii' ("Blue Rug Juniper").
Here's how to prune juniper topiaries, groundcovers, upright, and shrubby juniper plants. Topiaries. It’s easiest to start with a nursery-grown specimen that is already trained into a topiary ...
J. squamata ‘Blue Star’– Though slow-growing, 'Blue Star' juniper is widely planted for its textured blue evergreen foliage and low, mounding habit. It reaches 1-3 feet tall, 1-3 feet wide ...
The cones are berry-like, globose, 8–9 mm in diameter, dark blackish-brown with a pale blue-white waxy bloom, and contain two or three seeds (rarely one); they are mature in about 18 months. The male cones are 3–4 mm long, and shed their pollen in early spring. It produces cones of only one sex on each plant. [2] [3] [4]
The ashe juniper was one of the few plants that could thrive in the rocky soil. The wood is naturally rot-resistant and provides raw material for fence posts. Posts cut from old-growth Ashe junipers have been known to last in the ground for more than 50 years.
Juniperus squamata is widely grown as an ornamental plant in Europe and North America, valued for its bluish foliage and compact habit. The following cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit: [9] 'Blue Carpet' [10] 'Blue Star' [11] 'Holger' [12]
Juniperus scopulorum is a small evergreen tree that in favorable conditions may reach as much as 20 metres (66 feet) in height. [4] However, on sites with little water or intense sun it will only attain shrub height, and even those that reach tree size will more typically be 4.6–6.1 metres (15–20 feet) tall in open juniper woodlands. [5]
Myoporum insulare, commonly known as common boobialla, native juniper, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the figwort family Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to coastal areas of Australia. It is a shrub or small tree which grows on dunes and coastal cliffs, is very salt tolerant and widely used in horticulture.