Icee Blue® Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis 'Monber' P.P. #9,639
A new introduction that exhibits the best silver blue winter color of the groundcover junipers. Maintains a full, dense crown of foliage creating a solid cover in a short time. Winter foliage becomes plum purple in coldest climates. Evergreen.
| Botanical Pronunciation: | ju-NIP-er-us hor-i-zon-TA-lis |
| Key feature: | Easy Care Plant |
| Plant type: | Conifer |
| Patent Act: | Asexual reproduction of plants protected by the Plant Patent Act is prohibited during the life of the patent. |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Evergreen |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 3 - 9 |
| Light needs: | Full sun |
| Water Needs: | Once established, needs only occasional watering. |
| Average landscape size: | Moderate growing to only 4 in. tall, spreading to 8 ft. |
| Growth rate: | Moderate |
| Growth habit: | Spreading |
| Special feature: | Easy Care |
| Landscape uses: | Green Roof, Seacoast Exposure, Topiary |
| Blooms: | Does not flower |
| Foliage color: | Silver-blue |
| Item no.: | 4990 |
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Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Watering can be reduced after establishment. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring.
Design Ideas
Low blue spreading mounding junipers are the perfect choice for erosion control coverage on cut slopes and natural banks where run-off is a problem. This plant is perfect for nestling landscape boulders or softening the top edge of a masonry retaining wall. Makes an excellent winter structural plant for mixed borders that tend to look too barren in the colder months. Makes a useful problem solver in native and wild gardens when arranged in naturalistic compositions. As with most junipers it is welcome in Japanese gardens either natural or pruned into creative bonsai forms.
History
This is a new species with improved color introduced by Monrovia in 1996. Its parent species is native to an enormous range in North America extending from the Canadian border south to Atlanta. It is also found in isolated mountain ranges throughout the west. The species was named by German botanist, Konrad Moench.
Lore
The leaves of this juniper are toxic but used in certain home remedy ointments in the Old World. Foliage was repellent to lice and used in rural areas and later oils extracted from the plant were used in traditional insecticides.
A new introduction that exhibits the best silver blue winter color of the groundcover junipers. Maintains a full, dense crown of foliage creating a solid cover in a short time. Winter foliage becomes plum purple in coldest climates. Evergreen.
Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Watering can be reduced after establishment. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring.
Design Ideas
Low blue spreading mounding junipers are the perfect choice for erosion control coverage on cut slopes and natural banks where run-off is a problem. This plant is perfect for nestling landscape boulders or softening the top edge of a masonry retaining wall. Makes an excellent winter structural plant for mixed borders that tend to look too barren in the colder months. Makes a useful problem solver in native and wild gardens when arranged in naturalistic compositions. As with most junipers it is welcome in Japanese gardens either natural or pruned into creative bonsai forms.
History
This is a new species with improved color introduced by Monrovia in 1996. Its parent species is native to an enormous range in North America extending from the Canadian border south to Atlanta. It is also found in isolated mountain ranges throughout the west. The species was named by German botanist, Konrad Moench.
Lore
The leaves of this juniper are toxic but used in certain home remedy ointments in the Old World. Foliage was repellent to lice and used in rural areas and later oils extracted from the plant were used in traditional insecticides.
| Botanical Pronunciation: | ju-NIP-er-us hor-i-zon-TA-lis |
| Key feature: | Easy Care Plant |
| Plant type: | Conifer |
| Patent Act: | Asexual reproduction of plants protected by the Plant Patent Act is prohibited during the life of the patent. |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Evergreen |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 3 - 9 |
| Light needs: | Full sun |
| Water Needs: | Once established, needs only occasional watering. |
| Average landscape size: | Moderate growing to only 4 in. tall, spreading to 8 ft. |
| Growth rate: | Moderate |
| Growth habit: | Spreading |
| Special feature: | Easy Care |
| Landscape uses: | Green Roof, Seacoast Exposure, Topiary |
| Blooms: | Does not flower |
| Foliage color: | Silver-blue |
| Item no.: | 4990 |
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