Plant: Hetzi - Juniper
Juniper · Juniperus scopulorum 'Hetzi'
Size: Spiral 10 gal
Light
Mature size
More about this plant
A dense, erect blue green juniper grown for fragrant needled evergreen foliage and peeling bark. It takes full sun and clay, sand or shallow rocky ground that drains well but can stay moist or run occasionally dry, and it is drought tolerant, seldom damaged by deer, and unusually tolerant of wet soil for a juniper. Blue fleshy berry like cones follow on female plants and draw songbirds. Use it as a border evergreen or a specimen where its aromatic foliage is close enough to notice.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 20 ft tall and 15 ft wide
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-8
- Evergreen foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
A dense, erect blue green juniper grown for fragrant needled evergreen foliage and peeling bark. It takes full sun and clay, sand or shallow rocky ground that drains well but can stay moist or run occasionally dry, and it is drought tolerant, seldom damaged by deer, and unusually tolerant of wet soil for a juniper. Blue fleshy berry like cones follow on female plants and draw songbirds. Use it as a border evergreen or a specimen where its aromatic foliage is close enough to notice.
- Foliage
- Fragrant needled evergreen foliage in blue and green tones.
- Fruit
- Round, two-lobed, dark blue berry-like cones with a white waxy bloom, ripening in the second year and persisting until spring.
- Bark & stems
- Reddish-brown or gray bark that exfoliates in thin strips; small branchlets are smooth, larger ones peel in plates.
- Native range
- Western Canada, the western United States and northern Mexico, on dry mountains, foothills and rocky ridges.
