Botanical Name: Juniperus horizontalis
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Common Name: Creeping Juniper  
Plant photo of: Juniperus horizontalis
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Water Saving Tip:

Apply as little fertilizer as possible.

If you use fertilizer make sure it stays on the landscape, and carefully water it in so there is NO runoff.

  • Anatomy

  • Culture

  • Design

Plant Type

Conifer, Shrub, Ground cover

 

Height Range

1-3'

 

Flower Color

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Flower Season

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Leaf Color

Green, Blue Green

 

Bark Color

Brown, Red

 

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Information by: Stephanie Duer
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  • Description

  • Notes

Creeping junipers are generally dense, low growing evergreen shrubs with long, flexible branches, growing about 1 to 2 feet tall and 4 to 8 feet wide. Color ranges from green to blue-green to steel blue, depending on the variety. This is a tough group of juniper and is well suited as a large area ground cover, or to cascade over walls and rocks. It can also be used to espalier or be staked up to create sort of an odd, upright, mounding juniper-art thing.