Juniperus Chinensis Blue Point Bonsai

A ready made evergreen for stately lawns or privacy screens the blue point juniper boasts glowing blue green foliage on a broad pyramidal form.

Juniperus chinensis blue point bonsai. Nice accent tall hedge or windscreen. In this article we explain how to keep your juniper alive and thriving. Withstands drought windy conditions better than most upright junipers. Tough blue green variety to 10 x 10 feet or more.

It grows steadily adding at least 6 inches a year so it will soon be a striking specimen on your lawn or part of the varied planting around your home. The blue point juniper is an outstanding upright evergreen with strongly colored blue foliage. Also juniperus horizontalis and juniperus procumbens are also good for bonsai. Likes full to part sun well drained soil deep infrequent water once established.

Retains excellent color through the winter. All the juniperus chinensis cultivars make fair to excellent bonsai. Juniperus chinensis blue point is a uniform growing dwarf conical selection of chinese juniper with dense branching holding prickly blue gray foliage. Clipped topiary forms make a wonderful formal accent in entrances or on patios.

Juniperus chinensis blue point. A very hardy fast growing upright juniper with a very pyramidal columnar growth habit. Shimpaku itogawa kishu are the 3 cultivars that are most often used for bonsai. I have been eyeing some blue point junipers mostly owing to their generally vertical growing habit but these are usually mutated into some goofy topiary by the time they are for sale.

After 10 years of growth a mature specimen will measure 4 5 feet 1 5 m tall and two thirds as wide an annual growth rate of 4 to 6 inches 10 15 cm. Pick up one or more of them to work with. Glowing blue green foliage on a densely branched broad pyramid form that maintains its natural form well with practically no pruning. And though it s a classic evergreen in many ways with year round interest and low maintenance care it s made unique by its ability to acclimate to almost any location.

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