Youngstown Juniper Shrub

Facts about Youngstown Juniper shrub. The Youngstown Juniper shrub is a slightly mounding type of juniper that has low spreading branches that are filled by gray foliage that will take on plum cast during the winter period. This tightly branching character makes them suitable and versatile to be used in rock gardens and foreground of boarders.

Attributes of the Youngstown Juniper shrub

The Youngstown Juniper shrub is a trailing beauty with super coloring. This shrub is greatly valued for its adaptability to many types of planting sites. The Youngstown Juniper shrub is highly preferred to be used in slope plantings, foundations, ground cover or in containers.

The Youngstown Juniper shrub is a moderate grower that can grow to an average of 1 foot tall and a spread of 6 feet wide at full maturity. It grows pretty well in full sun and once it is well established it will need occasional watering.

The Youngstown Juniper shrub has no looming season as it doesn’t flower.

Wildlife Value of the Youngstown Juniper shrub

The Bar Harbor Juniper berries are good and nutritious food for the wildlife, they are rich of vitamin C. and it attracts birds.

Care Information about the Youngstown Juniper shrub

Caring for the Youngstown Juniper shrub is quite easy, just follow a constant watering program during the first growing period so as to establish a deep yet extensive root system for the shrub. If the shrub is to be used as a ground cover one is to plant the Youngstown Juniper shrub 5 ft () apart or closer for faster coverage.

The weeds should be controlled with mulch until the plants have covered the ground area well.

Landscape Uses for the Youngstown Juniper shrub

The Youngstown Juniper shrub are quite useful, generally they can be used to control erosion on slopped grounds, they can used on boarders, making rock garden, and seacoast exposure.

Youngstown Juniper shrub grows with slow to moderate growth rate and might take ten years to reach 10 feet. The plant can tolerate swampy or exposed sites, also sandy, rocky and slightly alkaline soils.