Plant: Andorra - Juniper
Juniper · Juniperus horizontalis 'Andorra'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A low, wide spreading evergreen juniper that mounds to about a foot and a half and layers out to five feet, with soft blue green plumed foliage that turns purple bronze through winter. It wants full sun and sandy, rocky or loamy soil with good drainage, and once established tolerates drought, heat, erosion, urban conditions and deer browse. Use it as ground cover on slopes and banks, at the front of a border, in a rock or drought tolerant garden, or spilling over a wall or container.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 1.5 ft tall and 5 ft wide
- Hardy in USDA zones 3-9
- Evergreen foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
A low, wide spreading evergreen juniper that mounds to about a foot and a half and layers out to five feet, with soft blue green plumed foliage that turns purple bronze through winter. It wants full sun and sandy, rocky or loamy soil with good drainage, and once established tolerates drought, heat, erosion, urban conditions and deer browse. Use it as ground cover on slopes and banks, at the front of a border, in a rock or drought tolerant garden, or spilling over a wall or container.
- Foliage
- Blue green scale like and needle like foliage in soft plumes, turning purple and bronze in winter.
- Fruit
- Blue, berry like fleshy cones on recurved stalks, each with two or three seeds.
- Bark & stems
- Reddish-brown peeling bark; branchlets are brown and smooth, with yellow-green new growth.
- Native range
- North America: Canada and the northern U.S. from Maine west to Montana, and Alaska.
