Juniperus Horizontalis Blue Rug Juniper

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.

Juniperus horizontalis blue rug juniper.

This female cultivar produces fleshy blue cones. 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. This creeping shrub has a prostrate form and dense steely blue foliage. Blue rug juniper creates a flat ground cover.

Excellent for large scale groundcovers or cascading over walls. In winter the foliage takes on a purple tinge. Slow growing this creeping juniper makes a wonderful. The mature height is 1 foot tall.

Blue rug juniper juniperus horizontalis wiltonii sku 5070. This plant prefers full sun and well drained acidic to slightly alkaline soils. One of the finest trailing junipers having a uniform full centered growth habit with intense silver blue evergreen foliage. It is often planted as a groundcover.

It grows 6 to 12 inches per year and bears ovoid dark blue fruit. 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. It lives up to both its scientific and common names reaching only. Juniperus horizontalis wiltonii common name s.