| Description | A low, wide spreading Juniper with sharp blue foliage. |
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| Plant Type | All Plants, Shrubs Coniferous |
| Hardiness Zone | 4 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Leaves | sharp pointed blue dense needles |
| Dimensions | reaches 3 feet tall by 5-10 feet spread in 10 years. I have had a plant in a garden for over 20 years (as of 2010)and it is over 8 feet spread not much more than 1 foot in height) As the plant gets older it forms an irregular spread. |
| Maintenance | It is difficult to properly prune ground cover Junipers. Most people just cut the ends and after a few years pointed stubbed branches form. Lift up the outside branches cutting the underneath branches and feather back the top branches to a crotch of a branch. This will develop into a much softer outside edge of the shrub. Also they will have branches that just seem to die for no apparent reason and these will need to be cut out using pruning shears. |
| Propagation | cuttings |
| Cultivar Origin | A mutation of 'Meyeri' (a witches broom) at the Hoogeveen Nursery in Holland about 1950) Also introduced by Iseli Nursery, Inc. |
| Notes & Reference | 1-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, Iseli Nursery web site, #133-Gardenning with Conifers (Adrian Bloom) |
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