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| Description | A wide spreading, low growing shrub for the full sun areas of the landscape. Excellent blue foliage in the summer and fall. |
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| Pronunciation | (ju-NIP-er-us) (hor-i-zon-TA-lis) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Shrubs Coniferous |
| Hardiness Zone | 3-9 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | inconspicuous and not ornamental |
| Fruit | fleshy glaucous blue fruit |
| Leaves | blue throughout the entire year, becoming brighter in the fall or cooler weather |
| Dimensions | 8-10 inches high by a spread of over 8 feet, space 4-6 feet on centers, low prostrate plant with spreading branches that radiate out from a slightly mounded center. |
| 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 | Selected at the Hill Nursery Company, raised by seed in Denmark in around 1940. |
| Author's Notes | This is one of my favorite Junipers. The blue foliage is a welcome addition to the landscape. It can be used as a specimen shrub, massed as a ground cover or cascading over rocks and small retaining walls. |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr) |
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