Juniperus Horizontalis Creeping Juniper Bonsai

This female cultivar produces fleshy blue cones.
Juniperus horizontalis creeping juniper bonsai. It is drought and deer tolerant and moderately salt tolerant. The foliage often has a blue green cast in spring and summer and plum colored tint in winter. 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. Excellent for large scale groundcovers or cascading over walls.
Eastern red cedar juniperus virginiana creeping juniper is a potential host plant of a fungal disease cedar apple rust. Allow your juniper tree to grow in a container for two years before attempting to begin training. In winter the foliage takes on a purple tinge. An excellent ground cover for dry sandy soils here s everything you need to know about its care and maintenance.
Juniperus horizontalis creeping juniper is a sprawling prostrate evergreen shrub forming a splendid foliage mat of green to blue green needles closely appressed to the long trailing branches. Distribution in the northern u s. Description creeping juniper is a native low growing shrub that grows up to 1 5 feet high and branches can spread to form a dense mat up to 10 feet wide. Male and female flowers grow on separate plants and the female plants produce berries.
It features plume like branches that extend horizontally. Juniperus conferta is a dense evergreen shrub native to the seacoast of japan and sakhalin island. Creeping juniper is a low growing evergreen shrub that is often used as a ground cover. Fleshy dark blue cones with a conspicuous white bloom are produced by female plants.
From new england to new york to the great lakes wyoming and montana. Juniperus horizontalis wiltonii sku 5070 one of the finest trailing junipers having a uniform full centered growth habit with intense silver blue evergreen foliage. Creeping juniper bonsai trees must be grown outside in full sun just like normal creeping junipers. In winter the foliage takes on a purple tinge.