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THESE CONIFER GROUND COVER PLANTS ARE CURRENTLY IN 45 LITRE GROWBAGS TO DEVELOP STRONG ROOT SYSTEMS TO TAKE OFF WHEN PLANTED,
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Juniperus conferta or Shore Juniper is a dense, evergreen, low-spreading shrub that makes a great groundcover.
The aromatic, fine needled foliage grows thickly to cover soil and rocks and it will drape itself elegantly over low walls.
It produces small, pale green berries and is very good in coastal situations.
The berries of some junipers are used to flavour gin – others have medicinal uses as antiseptics or diuretics.
There are places in the garden where you need a good, tough, weed suppressing groundcover. When it comes to that sort of plant you can’t beat ground-covering junipers.
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Junipers are trees and shrubs native to the northern hemisphere. They are members of the cupressus family. They are used in gardens to give a good evergreen cover. The evergreen foliage can change during the season, so it can go from bluey-greys during summer to quite steely greys during winter.
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Look out for Juniperus horizontalis ‘Douglasii’ which has a steely-grey foliage. What makes them such wonderful groundcover plants is that each layer of foliage grows on top of the one below, so they become quite dense. That means not much light gets to the ground and they suppress weeds.
A favourite is Juniperus conferta, native to Japan, where it grows on sand dunes. It forms a wonderful cover and it has a fresh green colour which is reminiscent of lawn. The foliage is really prickly, and that’s a characteristic of many junipers. Most are pretty tolerant with soils, but they don’t like waterlogging. Many will take quite alkaline conditions too.
Look out for a form of Juniperus sabina called Juniperus ‘Tamariscifolia’ which shows two foliage forms, an old leaf form and a young leaf form and this is quite typical of junipers. Another great thing about junipers is they tolerate shade cast over them by trees.
If you’re looking for a low maintenance solution for part of your garden, then junipers could be the plants for you.
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They are not yet fully matured & can be sold to you $28 each if extracted from the current growbags & placed into a smaller pot/bag. Left in their current growbags to maturity they will be $78 each.You have a few choices. Buy now small & you water & tend to them at $28 or you pay the higher prices for what it is. Things change so if interested in these contact me.Henry
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