Japanese Garden Juniper
Bright green new growth turns a handsome blue green as it matures.
Japanese garden juniper. Slow growing this compact juniper makes a wonderful dwarf groundcover and looks terrific in the rock garden or cascading. Individual needles are about 1 3 inch long grouped in threes. Japanese garden juniper leaves are actually fine textured sharply pointed evergreen needles.
The foliage of variegata has splashes of cream color on it. Japanese garden juniper is a low growing ground hugging evergreen reaching 6 to 12 inches high and eventually spreading 4 to 6 feet wide. Incredibly popular juniperus procumbens nana garden juniper is a compact mat forming evergreen shrub with long trailing branches radiating in all directions.
The blue green foliage turns a slight purple in the winter. Their color is a strong blue green that lasts year round. Excellent as a ground cover used to stabilize slopes or cascading over low walls.
A wonderful low maintenance sprawling plant comes in the form of japanese juniper shrubs. Winter color has a purple tinge. Branches spread parallel to and slightly above the ground.
A wonderful evergreen for a group planting on a rocky slope or trained into an upright staked specimen. Japanese garden junipers have inconspicuous little cone like flowers. Dwarf japanese garden juniper juniperus procumbens nana sku 5090.
Scientifically known as juniperus procumbens the second part of the name refers to the plant s low height if you want a set and forget type of plant japanese juniper care is minimal and easy once established. Juniperus procumbens commonly called japanese garden juniper is a dwarf procumbent shrubby ground cover that grows 8 18 sometimes to 24 tall and spreads over time by long trailing branches to form a dense mat 10 15 wide it is native to japan.