Blue Carpet Juniper In Container

Spreading growth habit stays low to the ground and is easy to care for.

Blue carpet juniper in container.

Blue rug juniper accent shrub is ideal as groundcover on hills for erosion control or cascading over retaining walls. Blue point juniper trees in containers benefit from the addition of 1 to 3 inches of leaf or bark mulch. Do not pile the mulch up on the tree trunk because it can encourage rot on the trunk. Blue carpet juniper juniperus squamata blue carpet almost says it all.

Together these features add up to. Blue rug juniper is a drought tolerant nearly indestructible evergreen that will grow in almost any well drained soil making. These plants have attractive green or blue green needles and produce blue berries in winter that will certainly keep your winter garden varied. Junipers are creeping types that grown no more than a few feet tall but tend to spread like a carpet.

Blue points to the color of the sharp overlapping densely arranged needles. Even squamata refers to the scaly bark typical of the species. Native to north america this blue rug noted for its excellent prostrate dense form. It will grow a little more slowly typically grows to be 4 6 inches tall and spreading to 5 7 feet.

The features of blue rug juniper. And of course there are juniper trees which can easily be installed in your container garden. Although blue rug juniper won t grow more than 4 to 6 inches tall a single plant can span a width of 8 to 10 feet.