Junipers have a resinous sap that is quite combustible. This is not a species to plant in mass within dense residential areas where there is an ongoing danger of wildfires. They can, however, be an excellent choice as specimen plantings for rocky outcroppings where there is little combustible material in the immediate area.
Here are 12 species of sun-loving juniper trees. The alligator juniper is named for its distinctive bark that resembles the rough, checkered skin of an alligator. This species can either be a shrub or tree depending on the growing location and conditions.
Other common names include checkerbark juniper, oak-barked juniper, thick-barked juniper, western juniper , and mountain cedar. This is a good plant for dry, rocky conditions. California juniper is usually found as a large shrub in the Southwest, though it can sometimes grow to be a medium-sized tree in the wild. It features scale-like blue-gray leaves and reddish-brown cones. In landscaping, it is used to create wildlife habitats and in drought-tolerant gardening.
It is very tolerant of alkaline soils and is often used to provide erosion control on dry slopes. It is also often used in bonsai.
This species has also been classified as Juniperus cedrosiana , Juniperus pyriformis or Juniperus cerrosianus. Another common name for this shrub is desert white cedar. One variety of the Chinese juniper 'Toruloso' is known as the Hollywood juniper.
As it matures it creates an intriguing twisted form that works well as a specimen plant. There are many other varieties composed of different shapes and colors. The leaves on Chinese juniper are needle-like when the plants are young, but assume the shape of scales as the plant matures.
This is one of the junipers with good tolerance for urban conditions, but it does not like wet soils. As the name suggests, this juniper shrub is commonly found throughout much of the world. It grows well in both alkaline and acidic soils, as well as adapting to many locations, such as windy sites.
This plant can take many forms depending on its environment. Some cultivars are low-growing shrubs suitable for use as ground covers, while the species form may take the form of small upright trees. This is a rare juniper that has needle-like leaves, rather than scales. Creeping juniper lives up to its name and works well as a groundcover. It is very adaptable and can handle many different soils and situations.
The leaves begin needle-like but becomes scales when the plants mature. The cones are blue-white berries with a waxy coating. There are more than cultivars of this plant available, including varieties with yellow foliage. Regionally, this plant may be also be known as trailing juniper or creeping Savin juniper. Drooping juniper gets its name because of the way that the branchlets droop down. As juveniles, these upright trees have needle-like leaves that become flattened scales in the mature plants.
This tree has a reddish-brown or gray bark that sheds in strips and the cones are greenish berries that mature into purplish-brown. Red cedar is a form of juniper that is especially fragrant, a quality that is sometimes used to repel insects the wood is often used in cedar chests.
This is an upright tree with dark blue-green scale-like foliage. The rich, green needles are a bit prickly but appear soft and pet-able. It cones regularly and prolifically, adding even more interest to an already striking presence. While it can certainly be pruned, this specimen, about 15 years old, has never been altered in any way.
One of the best focal point junipers, but difficult to find in the trade. Juniperus cedrus. Native to the Canary Islands, and hence a subtropical selection, Juniperus cedrus does best in Mediterranean climates in zones 9 and It is a large, upright tree whose upward facing branches drip with long, graceful branchlets. The needles are grayish green with a double white stomatal band which gives the foliage a tweedy appearance.
The bark is brown and peeling and the combination of its shape, color and habit make it an extremely attractive tree. While it will not grow in most of the U. Should you visit the Canary Islands, note that there are various forms of this species, depending on which island it grows. Some are more weeping, some greener or bluer. It is threatened in the wild. There are hundreds more junipers out there, almost all of them tough, garden workhorses and many of them attractive, eye catching additions to the mixed bed or border.
Try the trailing forms over a low rock wall, or along a driveway, the shrubbier shapes in a mixed bed, and if you are lucky enough to score an 'Oblonga Pendula', give it a spot all to itself! Do you respect junipers now? We thought that you might! Across the midwest and western eastern U. They are truly "cast iron" conifers. Ron Elardo. It has that! To be a globe! How delightful. We have a grouping of Juniper trees hiding a electrical box. They are getting too high! Can you top a Juniper tree without damaging them?
How will the shape of the tree change? My first name is Juniper. I love them all. I am a humble, strong woman, always wt a smile. The Juniperus squamata 'Blue Star' This bun-shaped juniper pictured above is hardly boring! The evergreen tree is ideal for growing as a hedging plant to create a privacy screen, living fence , or barrier.
Other attractive juniper landscaping plants include the following small or dwarf cultivars :. With its upright, columnar shape, the slow-growing juniper looks great as a specimen tree, foundation planting, or container tree.
Grows 3 ft. Ideal as an accent plant, front of house plant, or patio container plant. Grows 2 ft. This hardy evergreen shrub thrives in USDA zones 2 to 6. Also, small dark blue berry-like cones cover the plant in the fall. The Chinese juniper is an ornamental evergreen tree or large shrub.
Like most junipers, the Chinese juniper has dark blue fleshy cones with a white waxy covering. Chinese junipers grow between 3 and 65 ft. Its dense dark green foliage creates perfect privacy screens. Or you can trim the foliage to grow shrubs for foundation plantings , containers, or a specimen plant. The variegated juniper has yellow and green spiky leaves. The California juniper is a native shrub-like juniper tree identified by scaly green-gray leaves, dark blue-brownish fleshy cones, and thin peeling bark.
The short scaly leaves on mature plants grow 0. Like all junipers, the evergreen leaves are stiff and prickly on immature shrubs. Also called the juniper Joshua tree, the California juniper tree grows 10 to 26 ft. The berry-like cones are dark blue with a white coating and measure 0. The California juniper is related to another native juniper plant, the Utah Juniper Juniperus osteosperma. Utah juniper is a small evergreen tree or a shrub that grows 15 — 30 ft.
It grows on dry, rocky soil or mountain slopes , and is the most common juniper species in Utah and Arizona. Utah juniper has rounded crown with spreading branches and gray-brown or whitish-gray bark peeling in long thin stripes. The green young leaves of Utah juniper are needle-like, 0. The berry-like cones are bluish-brown with white coating and measure 0. The narrow, columnar juniper is identified by its scale-like aromatic leaves that are a bluish-green color.
The juniper has identifiable thin, reddish-brown peeling bark and bluish-gray berry-like cones. The Mexican juniper is a weeping juniper tree with drooping branches, flattened green sprays, brown berry-like cones, and thin cinnamon-brown bark that peels off in thin strips. Also called the drooping juniper, the Mexican juniper tree grows between 16 and 33 ft. Mexican juniper fruits are large berry-like fleshy cones that measure up to 0. Juniper identification: The weeping Mexican juniper is the only specimen tree with flattened spray foliage growing on pendulous branches.
Ashe Juniper or Mountain Cedar Juniperus ashei —This juniper has feathery foliage that is bright green, soft berry-like purple cones, and peeling brown bark. Also called the blueberry juniper, this native juniper grows up to 33 ft.
Ashe Juniper or Mountain Cedar Juniperus ashei. The fast-growing, drought-tolerant tree has rich green soft, scaly foliage and a pyramidal, columnar shape. The Brodie juniper grows 15 to 20 ft. Low-growing juniper shrubs have many landscape uses. The dwarf or short-stature spreading evergreen junipers are ideal for ground cover, foundation planting, rock gardens, or evergreen borders.
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