Blue Mat Juniper

The growth habit can be described as a dense low mat like plant with a height of 4 6 inches and a spread of 5 6 feet.
Blue mat juniper. In the cold regions this blue rug adapts well to snow and frost but it can turn almost purple in seriously cold winters. Foliage is a silver blue that transitions into purple bronze during the winter months. The blue rug juniper is a low lying creeping evergreen shrub. Juniperus horizontalis blue mat blue mat creeping juniper is a conifer trinomial.
The best time to plant blue rug juniper is in the cooler temperatures of fall winter or early spring. Juniperus horizontalis blue mat blue mat creeping juniper on the american conifer society website. The blue rug juniper is a low lying creeping juniper shrub. Its rich blue green foliage takes on gorgeous purple shades in winter and bears blackish ornamental fruits.
Blue rug juniper is a hardy evergreen plant with silvery blue foliage that can take on a purple tone in the winter months. Cold hardy heat loving and drought tolerant blue rug is a problem solver that thrives in nearly any landscape. Grower pot best grown in usda hardiness zones 3 to zone 9. With a moderate growth rate it reaches less than a foot tall but can spread several feet wide forming a dense mat.
Blue rug juniper serves well as a year round ground cover its silvery blue foliage turning a bit purplish during the cold winter months. The growth habit can be described as a dense low mat like plant with a height of 4 6 inches and a spread of 5 6 feet.