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JUNIPERUS
Well-known for its essential oil and culinary use (gin - from the Dutch genever) as well as its ornamental use as a garden plant in many forms from trees to rockery subjects.
Genus of 50-60 species of coniferous, evergreen shrubs and tall trees from dry forests and hillsides throughout the northern hemisphere.
J. communis is the UK native, found on moors, chalk downland, birch and pinewoods. A possible subspecies, hemisphaerica, very rare and on the Lizard peninsula is being propagated.
Buy Varieties of JUNIPERUS
JUNIPERUS communis 'Compressa'
miniature pencil-shaped conifer ideal for rock gardens
JUNIPERUS communis 'Repanda'
green prostrate, good ground cover
JUNIPERUS horizontalis 'Limeglow'
vibrant greenish-yellow foliage in spring turning through orange-yellow in autumn and bronze in winter
JUNIPERUS x media 'Carbery Gold
low and dense habit, foliage a striking greenish-yellow
JUNIPERUS procumbens 'Nana'
grey-green foliage. Forms a dense mat
JUNIPERUS scopulorum 'Skyrocket'
narrow columnar habit and striking blue grey colour
JUNIPERUS squamata 'Blue Carpet'
low growing spreading branches, blue grey foliage
JUNIPERUS virginiana 'Blue Arrow'
an even more striking habit and colour than 'Skyrocket'