Juniper average Pfitzeriana is a coniferous shrub with arcuate curved branches. Evergreen needles are not prickly, soft, with needle-like and scaly needles. The lower branches of the plant lie on the ground. The shrub grows quickly and is not picky about the soil. At the age of ten it grows up to one and a half meters in height, and reaches three meters in diameter.
Juniper Pfitzeriana has an attractive appearance throughout the year, delighting with its green needles. It adjoins well with rose bushes and perennials. Juniper is medium frost-resistant, tolerates drought and harmful urban emissions in the air, tolerates pruning well. The biologically active substances phytoncides secreted by juniper purify the air from harmful pathogenic bacteria, making it useful for humans.
As a result of selection, many varieties of middle juniper were bred, differing in the color of the needles, the shape of the crown and its size.
Popular varieties of juniper medium
Juniper medium Pfitzeriana Aurea (Pfitzeriana Aurea)
This variety of juniper grows strongly in width, reaching a diameter of about five meters, so it is not suitable for small flower beds. It is used in landscape design, for decorating the lower tier in parks and gardens. The color of the needles is golden yellow-green, the shape of the crown is spreading. Like most junipers, this shrub is photophilous, frost-hardy, unpretentious to care for.
Juniper medium Pfitzeriana Gold Coast (pfitzeriana Gold Coast)
A shrub that looks very good against a lawn when planted alone. The maximum height that he can reach after ten years of growth is one meter, the crown diameter is up to three meters. It grows slowly, the color of the needles is golden-yellow-green in a well-lit planting site. The shape of the crown is widely spread.
Juniper Pfitzeriana Gold Star (pfitzeriana Gold Star)
Low spreading shrub. Grows faster in fertile soils. At the age of ten it reaches half a meter in height and one and a half meter in diameter. The crown is spreading, flat. The branches are horizontal. This juniper variety looks impressive due to the golden color of the needles. Suitable for small gardens and stone beds. Looks good both in composition with other plants, and separately.
Juniper Blu ande Gold (Blue and Gold)
An original ornamental juniper variety. On the same bush, shoots of different colors grow - yellow and green-blue. It is small in size and after ten years of growth reaches a meter in height and a meter in diameter. Looks good in color compositions in combination with other evergreens.
Juniper medium Mint Julep (Mint Julep)
Large shrub with spreading branches. An adult bush has a dense crown and arcuate curved branches. The needles are colored bright green. It grows to a height of no more than one and a half meters. In landscaping, it is used to create living walls and for single planting in large parks. In America, this variety of juniper is industrial.
Juniper Pfitzeriana Compact (Pfitzeriana Compacta)
The needles of this juniper are gray-green in color. The crown of the bush is compact, in an adult plant, it is spread above the ground. After ten years of growth, the plant reaches a height of eighty centimeters with a diameter of two meters. Not suitable for small flower bed arrangements, looks better in gardens and parks.
Juniper medium Old Gold
Slow growing shrub. Does not grow more than half a meter in height with a bush diameter of one meter. The crown has a regular shape and is compact. The needles are golden-green, yellow on young shoots. A very popular variety of juniper. Suitable for growing in containers, on lawns, looks good in compositions with other plants.
Juniper Pfitzeriana Glauca (Pfitzeriana Glauca)
The crown of this shrub is dense, has an irregularly rounded shape. The juniper growing in a sunny place has bluish-blue needles, in partial shade it acquires a grayish-green color. It grows in height up to one and a half to two meters with a diameter of up to four meters. Planted on terraces, rocky mounds, in combination with other herbaceous perennials.
Juniper medium Sheridan Gold (Sheridan Gold)
Slow growing shrub. At the age of ten, it does not exceed forty centimeters in height and meters in width. The crown is almost all needle-shaped in the spring, painted in a golden yellow color, at other times of the year it is yellow-green. At the beginning of growth, the branches are creeping, then they begin to grow upward. The plant, like all junipers, loves sunny open places; in the shade it loses its bright color. Grows best on loose sandy, not very wet soils. Looks impressive both in a group composition and separately from other ornamental plants. Used to decorate parterre lawns and small gardens.
Juniper medium Sulfur Spray (Sulfur Spray)
A small shrub no more than half a meter high. Branches are prostrate-ascending. The needles are greenish-yellowish with light yellow ends, as if they have a sulphurous coating (this is reflected in the name).
Juniper medium Hetzi (Hetzii)
Fast growing juniper variety. Reaches a height of two to three to five meters with a crown width of five to seven meters. Like all junipers, it lends itself well to pruning. The needles are mostly scaly, small. The color is gray-green. The branches in adult specimens are located obliquely, in young ones they are spread above the ground. The crown is spreading. It is used in single and group compositions.
Juniper King of Spring (King of Spring)
The name of this juniper is translated from English as "King of Spring". An elegant shrub with a bright yellow-green color of needles. To make the needles as bright as possible, it is recommended to plant the plant in a sunny place. In the shade, the juniper will darken to a dark green color. This juniper variety is undersized, does not grow to a height of more than thirty-five centimeters. The bushes grow slowly, adding about seven centimeters per year. The diameter can reach two and a half meters. Juniper of this variety is ideal for creating juniper carpets on slides, for decorating parterre lawns and park alleys.
