Juniperus horizontalis

Habit

Horizontal spreading dwarf shrub, 0.2-0.3 m tall, 1.5-2 (3) m wide; shoots snooking, dense mats, sometimes overlapping; slow-growing.

Fruits

Small, blue berry cones, rarely produced.

Leaves

Scaly, green to steel blue, often crimson in winter.

Demands

Sunny to slightly shady, tolerates heat, frost hardy, wind resistant.

Soil

Dry to damp, acidic to alkaline, not demanding and adaptable, but suffers on heavy soil where it has gaps; tolerates some salt.

Hardiness

Zone 4

Overview of varieties of Juniperus horizontalis

Variety	Habit	Size in m H = Height W = Width	Leaf colour	Note
'Andorra Compact'	Pillowy initially, later spreading, shrub-like	H: 0.4-0.7 W: 2-3	greyish green in summer, blue and crimson in winter	picturesque, ascending twigs
'Prince of Wales'	Prostrate, dense mats	H: 0.3-0.5 W: 1.5-3	pale green, bronze-green in winter	extremely frost hardy
'Wiltonii'	Broadly prostrate, creeping branches, dense dwarf shrub forming mats	H: 0.2-0.3 W: 1.5-3	intense blue keeping much of its colour in winter	many bluish glaucous berry cones