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Plant: Gold Lace - Juniper
Juniper · Juniperus chinensis 'Gold Lace'
Size: 3 gal
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Mature size
More about this plant
A spreading, dense evergreen juniper with tiered horizontal branches and scale-like foliage that shows golden accents against older green growth. It matures around 3 feet tall and 5 feet wide or more, and is hardy to zone 4. Plant it in full sun to part shade in well-drained soil as a foundation or mass planting; it is drought, heat and salt tolerant and deer resistant.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 20 ft tall and 15 ft wide
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-9
- Evergreen foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
A spreading, dense evergreen juniper with tiered horizontal branches and scale-like foliage that shows golden accents against older green growth. It matures around 3 feet tall and 5 feet wide or more, and is hardy to zone 4. Plant it in full sun to part shade in well-drained soil as a foundation or mass planting; it is drought, heat and salt tolerant and deer resistant.
- Flowers
- No showy flowers; plants bear small pollen and seed cones.
- Foliage
- Dense scale-like foliage with golden accents against older green growth.
- Bark & stems
- Light brown bark, ridged and fissured, peeling in thin strips.
- Pruning
- Needs corrective pruning once a year.
- Native range
- Eastern Asia, including China, Mongolia, Japan and the Himalayas
