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Junipers

Junipers are tough evergreen conifers with varied habits, from low spreading ground cover to upright forms, and are particularly useful in sunny, well-drained sites.

Junipers offer evergreen foliage, strong texture and a wide range of habits from low spreading ground cover to upright specimen forms. They are useful where year-round structure is needed without the bulk of a large shrub. Many junipers tolerate wind, cold and relatively poor soils, making them useful in exposed Irish gardens provided drainage is good. They are less suited to persistently waterlogged ground.

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Junipers for Irish Gardens

What This Collection Brings to the Garden

Junipers are tough evergreen conifers with varied habits, from low spreading ground cover to upright forms, and are particularly useful in sunny, well-drained sites.

Junipers offer evergreen foliage, strong texture and a wide range of habits from low spreading ground cover to upright specimen forms. They are useful where year-round structure is needed without the bulk of a large shrub.

Why It Works in Irish Gardens

Many junipers tolerate wind, cold and relatively poor soils, making them useful in exposed Irish gardens provided drainage is good. They are less suited to persistently waterlogged ground.

Choosing the Right Plants

Choose by growth habit as much as colour. Creeping junipers can cover banks and edges, compact forms suit rockeries and pots, while upright cultivars provide strong evergreen accents.

Planting and Care

Give plants space to keep their natural outline. Pruning is usually limited to removing damaged or badly placed growth; avoid cutting back hard into old bare wood.