#JUNIPER SHRUB FULL#

Once your Blue Star Juniper has acclimated to your landscape, you can reduce your watering frequency. Watering: Water your new Blue Star Juniper regularly and deeply during its first growing season to help it establish вЂ“ weekly, or more often during extreme heat. Use organic soil mix, place your shrub, and put the pot in a sunny location on your porch or patio.Дў. If you're container planting, select a pot that's twice the width of your shrub's shipped container and ensure it has drainage holes. After placing your shrub in its hole, backfill the soil, tamp down, and water to establish the root system. When itвЂ™s time to plant your shrub, start by digging a hole thatвЂ™s at least twice the width of the root ball. However, the Blue Star Juniper shrub is highly adaptable, drought resistant and easy-to-grow in most soil types.

#JUNIPER SHRUB FULL#

Planting: Choose a location with full sun (6 to 8 hours of sun per day) and ideally well-drained soil. Order your Blue Star Juniper Shrub today!ДЎ. WeвЂ™ve put in the extra work, so you can reap the rewards. That means your Blue Star Juniper will arrive at your door fuller and better developed, with a healthy, intact root system that's ready to thrive in your landscape. Plus, we choose the best Blue Stars on the market and nurture them with care before we ship to you. Our Blue Star Juniper is a proven performer, with dense, evergreen foliage and year-round growth. If youвЂ™re looking for a dwarf plant with densely packed foliage and unique color, then the Blue Star Juniper makes a great choice for your garden. Just plant in full sun and provide regular water while it's establishing! Your Blue Star will thrive in light soil with great drainage - but it can tolerate other soils, including dry or clay soil. The best part? The Blue Star Juniper is an incredibly resilient and versatile shrub. A slow grower, the Blue Star Juniper will provide year-round beauty once established. Its vibrant, unique foliage offers a great contrast in monochromatic green gardens, while its spreading growth adds character to any landscape space. The Blue Star Juniper tends to grow out rather than up, reaching just 1-3 feet in height and creating a delightful mound of blue-green color. This needled evergreen shrub with silver-blue foliage is ideal for growing in dry, and stony areas - adding interest to garden beds in even the toughest conditions. вЂSentinelвЂ™ (вЂPencil PointвЂ™) - very narrow columnar form, to 6 ft (1.8 m) tall, bright green foliage.Add a delightful twist to your garden with the Blue Star Juniper. вЂRepandaвЂ™ - creeping form, flat to round, 5 ft (1.5 m) wide and about 1 ft (30 cm) high, branches thin and densely arranged, needles 5-8 mm, soft, not sharp to the touch.вЂPioneerвЂ™ - low growing, height to 1 ft (0.3 m) with a 3 ft (0.9 m) spread.вЂGreen CarpetвЂ™ - ground cover, only 4-6 inches (8-15 cm) high, slowly spreading to 3 ft (0.9 m).вЂGold ConeвЂ™ - upright habit, columnar, to 12-15 ft (3.5-4.5 m) tall, dense, foliage tipped in yellow. вЂEffusaвЂ™ - flat 4-6 inches (10-15 cm) high, spreading, 6-8 ft (1.8-2.4 m) wide, open habit, new foliage is cinnamon-brown, maturing to bright green. вЂDepressa AureaвЂ™ - rarely above 4 ft (1.2 m) high, essentially procumbent, new shoots strongly colored yellow, fades with time.вЂCompressaвЂ™ - upright and very narrow, branches upright, slow growing, (2-3 cm per year), usually less than 30 inches (80 cm) tall,.Oil distilled from the fleshy cones is used in flavorings (e.g., gin).ДЄ number of cultivars are offered, including:ДЄlpine Carpetв„ў (вЂMondapвЂ™) - low dense spreading habit, slow growing, to 8 inches (20 cm) tall, 3-4 ft (0.9-1.2 m) wide, deep blue-green foliage.Д«lueberry Delightв„ў (вЂAmiDakвЂ™) - about 1 ft (30 cm) tall and 5 ft ( 1.5 m), dark green foliage, named for its prolific production of blue fruit, Zone 3 introduced by North Dakota State University. There are several varieties (var.) or subspecies (ssp.) associated with this species, but there is no general agreement as to the number or their identity. Its native range extends from the subarctic to much of the temperate Northern Hemisphere, from North America (north of Mexico) to most of Europe to northern regions of central and eastern Asia, including Korea and Japan. Hardy to USDA Zone 2 Junierus communis has a wider distribution than any other tree or shrub and the only circumpolar conifer of the northern hemisphere. Grows in very poor soils, very adaptable to different soil types. Female cones, solitary, 12 mm long, globose, green at first then bluish or black, covered with waxy bloom. Leaves only awl-shaped (needles), 3-15 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, spreading at a wide angle from the stem, tapering to a spiny point, concave above with a wide white band, often in whorls of three. Conifer, evergreen, various forms, from a prostrate ground cover (less than 18 inches, 45 cm), or sprawling shrub, to a medium sized tree, 5-10 ft (1.5-3 m) high, branchlets triangular.