It produces a profusion of dark purple-blue berry-like cones covered with a white wax which gives them an overall silver-gray color. Its considered to be a great mid-height juniper maturing around 2-3 tall x 4-5 wide, although slow-growing. Its attractive silver-blue berries make this juniper great for holiday decorations. Put Abundant Color in Your Landscape Year Round With. Among the best of the shrubby, spreading junipers, award-winning Juniperus virginiana Grey Owl (Eastern Red Cedar) is a compact, wide-spreading evergreen conifer with arching main branches covered with soft dusty silver-gray scale-like foliage. The Grey Owl juniper is a very urban savvy, vigorous evergreen with widely spreading branches and loose, airy, silvery-gray foliage.
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Helpful Planting & Care Tips Provided By Our Experts. It adapts to a wide variety of soils provided they are well-drained. It is also another low growing juniper that is popular to plant as a ground cover on slopes for. It's considered to be a great mid-height juniper maturing around 2-3' tall x 4-5' wide, although slow-growing. It is popular when used along berms or as a natural, low hedge along property lines and garden borders. The Grey Owl juniper is a very urban savvy, vigorous evergreen with widely spreading branches and loose, airy, silvery-gray foliage. This is a fast growing evergreen shrub, expect 1 to 2 feet per year. Grey Owl Juniper is very easy to grow and is very low maintenance requiring no pruning. Grey Owl Juniper brings a light blue color to your landscape all year long. Grey Owl juniper is great for use as a specimen, in small to large groups or mass plantings on embankments or in sunny landscape beds, in foundation plantings, as a low natural hedge, and also works well for topiary pom poms. The horizontal, gracefully ascending branches that droop at the ends, and the feathery, thread-like foliage adds a soft texture that contrasts nicely with many other plants in the landscape particularly those with dark green purple, red, burgundy or golden foliage. It also works well as a foundation plant or accent, just give it room to grow.
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Grey Owl Juniper is very easy to grow and is very low maintenance requiring no pruning. If you're looking to create a low-growing informal hedge or need a plant to quickly cover an ugly slope that's washing away, Grey Owl Juniper might just be your choice. Grey Owl juniper is great for use as a specimen, in small to large groups or mass plantings on embankments or in sunny landscape beds, in foundation plantings, as a low natural hedge, and also works well for topiary pom poms. No, you're yard isn't on fire and that isn't grey smoke you see.it's the beautiful, soft textured Grey Owl juniper on the horizon! Grey Owl is know for it's outstanding light grey foliage color and it's fast rate of growth.