Juniperus horizontalis 'Mother Lode' Web Specials

Juniperus horizontalis 'Mother Lode' Web SpecialsAn excellent ground cover juniper that sports golden yellow foliage that creeps along the ground, rooting as it goes. The soft, feathery foliage of this unique cultivar will eventually spread 8ft 10ft wide, but only a couple of inches high. Low maintenance plant that prefers dryish sandy soil, but will tolerate a wide range of soil types. Excellent for the rock garden, staked up as a specimen, or will be useful growing flat on slopes for erosion

making the shrub very handsome

Grows to 3 ft tall and wide in 6 years

and is frost hardy

and will take a variety of growing conditions

Deer tolerant

The resulted in a very unique flower that is still super popular today

It has been propagated since 1882 and how glorious it is to trace flowers through history

This is a  very strong growing variegated form of Western Red Cedar that grows in a broad conical shape with foliage of yellow and green

Typical look in summer of other cultivars

I have seen this plant trained and pruned by Japanese master plantsmen into works of art

Grown for it sparkling and large FRAGRANT flowers blooming in the fall

and are out in June and into July each year