| Description | A low growing wide spreading shrub for the full sun. It retains its green foliage throughout the entire growing season. |
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| Pronunciation | (ju-NIP-er-us)(sa-BEE-na) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Shrubs Coniferous |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-9 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Leaves | Green branches spread out from a mounded center. Tends to form a mound that is a little off center. |
| Dimensions | 12-24 inches high at the center, tapering to flat on the ground with a spread of over 6 feet. space 4-6 feet on 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 from a batch of seeds imported from Petersburg Russia in 1933 by the D. Hill Nursery Co., Dundee, Illinois (USA). |
| Author's Notes | This has proven to be a very durable shrub for me. Tends to be come very woody and open up with age. |
| Notes & Reference | #1-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants(Michael Dirr), #133-Gardening with Conifers (Adrian Bloom) |
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