| Description | A low growing ground cover Juniper with a true silver-blue foliage. |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | (ju-NIP-er-us) (hor-i-zon-TA-lis |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Shrubs Coniferous |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-9 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average, once establish tolerates hot dry conditions |
| Soil & Site | average, once establish tolerates hot dry conditions |
| Leaves | tight compressed, silvery blue |
| Dimensions | 4 inches tall, spreads to 8 feet, mat forming |
| 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 | PP 9639 |
| Cultivar Origin | Discovered as a sport of Juniperus horizontalis 'Wiltonii' at Bergman Nursery in Quincy, Illinois in 1978 Introduced by Monrovia Nursery California, USA |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr), #144-Missouri Botanical Gardens web site (www.missouribotanicalgarden.org) |
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