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Juniper - Blue Forest
These plants may also be utilized for background plantings in shrub beds or flower gardens, as specimen plants, in rock gardens or for topiary or espalier purposes. It has a medium texture and a slow growth rate. Blue Forest Juniper, Juniperus sabina 'Blue Forest', is a distinctive groundcover-type evergreen that has very attractive silvery-blue foliage. Looks great when planted above a boulder retaining wall. It is urban tolerant. Junipers are used as ground covers, in foundation plantings, or as hedges, screens or windbreaks. This evergreen shrub has a wide-spreading habit with a somewhat vase shape that grows 4' to 6' tall with a greater spread. Needs full sun, and once established, little maintenance is required. It prefers moist, well-drained soil, but very adaptable. Junipers are important evergreens for landscape use due to their tolerance of unfavorable soil conditions, their hardiness and great variation in size, habit, color and growth rate. The upright growing branches present the "look" of a miniature "blue forest". ... more information
Heavenly Bamboo New leaves are coppery to purplish-red, becoming blue green with age. Perfect and pinkish in bud, finally white 8-15” long panicles appear in May-June, and will flower in heavy shade. Spectacular, round clusters of bright red berries ripen in the fall and persist into winter. When this plant is in full sun it usually assumes a reddish tint in winter (depending on environmental conditions). Once established, they are very tough plants, thriving in sun, shade, moist or dry conditions. The Heavenly Bamboo, Nadina domestica, is not a true bamboo but a upright 6-8’ high, semi-evergreen shrub that tends to slowly sucker at the base, forming colonies. Careful pruning, as canes do not branch out and best to thin out old stems every year or head back old canes at varying lengths to produce a dense plant. Heavenly Bamboo is more showy that most hollies because fruit is not hidden by foliage. |
