{"id":5805,"date":"2013-12-18T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2019-12-15T19:51:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T00:51:03","slug":"grey-owl-juniper-is-tough-carefree-evergreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2013\/12\/18\/grey-owl-juniper-is-tough-carefree-evergreen\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Grey Owl&#8217; Juniper Is Tough Carefree Evergreen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5820\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1480.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5820\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5820\" title=\"IMG_1480\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1480-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1480-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1480-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/IMG_1480.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old Planting Of &#8216;Grey Owl&#8217; Juniper At Johnson City, TN Mall<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>Some people rate junipers as over-planted or bygone landscape plants. <em>Juniperus virginiana<\/em> \u2018Grey Owl\u2019 is a cultivar of our native Eastern Red Cedar (USDA hardiness zones 3 to 9). Eastern red cedar is actually a juniper. This flat spreading evergreen develops into a reliable ground cover not plagued with disease and pest problems observed on some other juniper species.<\/p>\n<p>Grey Owl grows under open full sun in a variety of soils with adequate drainage. It grows 2 &#8211; 3 feet high and 4 &#8211; 6 feet wide. Two-year established plants are cold, heat, and drought tolerant. Eastern red cedars are resilient of windy sites and urban air pollutants.<\/p>\n<p>New transplants start out slowly, but eventually toughen up and grow robustly. Their mature spread may not make them your first choice for planting in a small garden.<\/p>\n<p>The most striking feature of Grey Owl is its silvery-gray foliage which shines all year long. In the winter landscape its silvery scaly foliage becomes tinged with purple, but its verdant color returns by the first day of spring.<\/p>\n<p>In the Southeast U.S., Grey Owl is often seen planted as a roadside hedge along medians where little maintenance is provided. In some years shrubs may be infested by bagworms. Deer rarely trouble red cedars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Holbert\u2019<\/strong> is another blue needle form wit feathery limbs are larger and low spreading plant to 2-3 feet tall and 8-10 feet wide. Low-spreading, bluish-green needles, and long extended shoots almost parallel to ground; Good blue foliage color holds well through the winter. &#8216;Holbert&#8217; is a male cultivar of &#8216;Grey Owl&#8217; and produces no cones.<\/p>\n<p>Female plants produce loads of blue waxy berries or cones which attract loads of hungry birds over the winter.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Juniperus-chinensis-Holbert-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Juniperus-chinensis-Holbert-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Juniperus-chinensis-Holbert-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Juniperus-chinensis-Holbert-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>&#8216;Holbert&#8217; Juniper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people rate junipers as over-planted or bygone landscape plants. Juniperus virginiana \u2018Grey Owl\u2019 is a cultivar of our native Eastern Red Cedar (USDA hardiness zones 3 to 9). Eastern red cedar is actually a juniper. This flat spreading evergreen develops into a reliable ground cover not plagued with disease and pest problems observed on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,657,778,674,806,628,639,551,627,791,843,936,1060,601,777,630,646,7,113,819,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5805"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12274,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions\/12274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}