Blue Chip Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis 'Blue Chip'
Superior evergreen groundcover displaying silver-blue foliage on a widely spreading habit. The foliage retains its rich color all year long.
| Botanical Pronunciation: | ju-NIP-er-us hor-i-zon-TA-lis |
| Key feature: | Easy Care Plant |
| Plant types: | Groundcover, Conifer |
| Garden style: | Asian/Zen |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Evergreen |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 3 - 9 |
| Light needs: | Full sun |
| Water Needs: | Once established, needs only occasional watering. |
| Average landscape size: | Moderate grower to only 1 ft. tall, spreads 6 to 8 ft. |
| Growth rate: | Moderate |
| Growth habit: | Spreading |
| Special features: | Attracts Birds, Deer Resistant, Easy Care, Waterwise |
| Landscape uses: | Border, Green Roof, Rock Garden, Seacoast Exposure, Specimen, Topiary |
| Blooms: | Does not flower |
| Foliage color: | Silver-blue |
| Item no.: | 4925 |
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Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. As a groundcover, space plants 5 ft. apart, (closer for faster coverage). Control weeds with mulch until the plants cover the area.
Design Ideas
In very cold regions, this blue Juniper adapts well to snow and frost. Lovely when planted around boulders or in rock gardens, where its twisted branches can be trained to unique forms. A reliable plant for high desert with its rapidly fluctuating day and night temperatures. Thrives in rocky, thin mountain soils or the sandy gravel of inland deserts. Use on slopes for coverage or erosion control. Plant along retaining walls and curbs, where the creeping foliage will cover year-round. Good along the hot, glary edges of streets and driveways. Resistant to deer.
Superior evergreen groundcover displaying silver-blue foliage on a widely spreading habit. The foliage retains its rich color all year long.
Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. As a groundcover, space plants 5 ft. apart, (closer for faster coverage). Control weeds with mulch until the plants cover the area.
Design Ideas
In very cold regions, this blue Juniper adapts well to snow and frost. Lovely when planted around boulders or in rock gardens, where its twisted branches can be trained to unique forms. A reliable plant for high desert with its rapidly fluctuating day and night temperatures. Thrives in rocky, thin mountain soils or the sandy gravel of inland deserts. Use on slopes for coverage or erosion control. Plant along retaining walls and curbs, where the creeping foliage will cover year-round. Good along the hot, glary edges of streets and driveways. Resistant to deer.
| Botanical Pronunciation: | ju-NIP-er-us hor-i-zon-TA-lis |
| Key feature: | Easy Care Plant |
| Plant types: | Groundcover, Conifer |
| Garden style: | Asian/Zen |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Evergreen |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 3 - 9 |
| Light needs: | Full sun |
| Water Needs: | Once established, needs only occasional watering. |
| Average landscape size: | Moderate grower to only 1 ft. tall, spreads 6 to 8 ft. |
| Growth rate: | Moderate |
| Growth habit: | Spreading |
| Special features: | Attracts Birds, Deer Resistant, Easy Care, Waterwise |
| Landscape uses: | Border, Green Roof, Rock Garden, Seacoast Exposure, Specimen, Topiary |
| Blooms: | Does not flower |
| Foliage color: | Silver-blue |
| Item no.: | 4925 |
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