If you are looking for a spreading Juniper, but one that is a little less aggressive than some of the other groundcover types, Dwarf Japanese Garden Juniper is your plant. It still covers ground and tolerates sun and poor dry soils as well as any of the others, but it will spread only about 2/3 as much as other groundcover Junipers. It will bring a distinguished, more formal look to the garden with distinct, light to medium green prickly foliage arranged on trailing branches that arch to form a low mound at the plant’s center, then stiffly cruise along the soil line through the garden. Plant it in groups or use it singly and enjoy its formal difference!

Trailing, mat forming evergreen with striking golden yellow foliage. Outstanding year-round color with foliage taking on an orange-yellow to plum winter hue. Tough, drought resistant, and reliable. Excellent as a color accent in any planting or planted in groups to become a ground cover. Attention getting, year round foliage color.

This prostrate grower puts on a spectacular show with dense, brilliant gold foliage color that lights up any area. Great winter look as gold foliage mixes with shades of mauve winter color. Easy to grow and aggressive growing compared to other prostrate yellow forms. Perfect for grouping as a groundcover. Thrives in poor, sandy soils. Great year round color. Deer resistant.

Very flat growing form with trailing branches. Foliage is a very intense silver-blue and will be light purplish in the winter. Fairly rapid, but compact in growth. This plant is our most popular groundcover juniper.

Known for its rock hardiness, this aggressively spreading groundcover juniper is one of the most functional plants you’ll ever use. Deep green summer foliage color turns nearly purple in the winter months, adding an unusual color to the winter landscape. A plant that’s very tolerant of poor soil conditions, ‘Bar Harbor’ is best used in large group plantings.

Extremely hardy and unique in appearance with a low growing, wider spreading, vase-like form, this selection is noticed most often in the winter landscape with its bronzy purplish foliage color. This selection is very tolerant of poor soil conditions and salt conditions and is perfect for group plantings.

This sport of ‘Youngstown’ will startle you with incredible color that will make you pinch yourself to make sure it all isn’t just a dream. You can save yourself a little pain because the electric chartruse color this plant’s feathery, plume-like foliage shows is real and outstanding! Better yet, the color keeps sharp throughout the season, resisting the fading that befalls other yellow plants and providing a season long garden contrast on a plant that stays low with a wide, vase-like form while displaying incredible landscape hardiness.

You’ll definitely be missing out if you don’t take advantage of the awesome salability of this outstanding evergreen groundcover. Short in stature but wide trailing, this aromatic beauty has appealing blue toned needles that will easily endure brutal cold, intense heat, or the dubious climate of the seashore. By far, ‘Blue Pacific’ is one of the most attractive and useful of all the Junipers. Soft and low growing and a quick spreader, it’s great as a groundcover or trailing over walls or even in planters for perennial arrangements. ‘Blue Pacific’ tolerates rough, dry soils well and even shrugs off road salt with nary a care.

This Juniper is anything but common with a tight, dense, upright, slow growing form that makes it perfect for an incredible number of landscape situations, and superb gold foliage color that really sets it apart. ‘Gold Cone’ only grows about 3-4″ per year making it ideal for smaller landscape spots or containers making it a great, colorful alternative to Dwarf Alberta Spruce. Its new foliage bursts forth in the spring with bold, bright gold coloration and it retains its color with a minimum of fading throughout the hot summer and following cold winter conditions. Like all Junipers, ‘Gold Cone’ is easy to grow and does best in bright, full sun locations.

Delicately textured, gray-green foliage striped with silver makes this tough upright juniper outshine other conifers. Dense and exceptionally hardy. Stays narrow and keeps shape without flopping or splaying open. ‘Gnom’ only grows about 3-4″ per year making it ideal for smaller landscape spots or containers. Easy to grow and does best in full sun.