Juniperus Horizontalis Blue Rug Juniper

It is often planted as a groundcover.

Juniperus horizontalis blue rug juniper.

In winter the foliage takes on a purple tinge. Blue rug juniper juniperus horizontalis wiltonii is a drought tolerant ground cover that craves good soil drainage this juniper is a practical solution for sunny slopes where water runs off so quickly that plants are apt to go thirsty. Blue rug juniper creates a flat ground cover. This creeping shrub has a prostrate form and dense steely blue foliage.

Scale like green leaves turn a dull purple in winter. This plant prefers full sun and well drained acidic to slightly alkaline soils. It grows 6 to 12 inches per year and bears ovoid dark blue fruit. Excellent for large scale groundcovers or cascading over walls.

This female cultivar produces fleshy blue cones. Blue rug juniper juniperus horizontalis wiltonii sku 5070. One of the finest trailing junipers having a uniform full centered growth habit with intense silver blue evergreen foliage. It lives up to both its scientific and common names reaching only.

The mature height is 1 foot tall. Phonetic spelling jew nip er us hor ih zon tal iss description wiltonii is a low growing evergreen shrub that grows 4 6 high and 6 8 wide. Juniperus horizontalis the creeping juniper or creeping cedar is a low growing shrubby juniper native to northern north america throughout most of canada from yukon east to newfoundland and in the united states in alaska and locally from montana east to maine reaching its furthest south in wyoming and northern illinois. Regarded as one of the best ground hugging junipers juniperus horizontalis wiltonii creeping juniper is a sprawling prostrate evergreen shrub forming a splendid foliage mat of silver blue needles closely appressed to the long branches.