Juniper Cossack Blue Danube

Cossack juniper Blue Danube – fluffy low shrub of the cypress family with blue needles. Bred specifically for landscape design.

Variety advantages: decorative, winter and drought resistance.

Appearance. The bush is low, no more than 1 m high. Crown – thick, lush, sprawling – up to 2.5 m in diameter. Annual growth – up to 20 cm. Needles – needle-shaped, 6 mm long, soft. The color is emerald green with a blue tint, turning gray by autumn. Fruits – rounded, black-brown in color, with a bluish bloom, have a specific smell.

Important! Juniper fruits are poisonous and not suitable for human consumption.

Destination. Juniper Blue Danub is used in group and single plantings, to create landscape compositions in parks, squares, and home gardens. With the help of shrubs, borders are decorated, slopes, banks of artificial reservoirs, lawns, rock gardens, rockeries are decorated. Juniper harmoniously combines with thujas, firs, herbaceous perennials.

Growing conditions. Blue Danube is undemanding to the composition of the soil, unpretentious in care, resistant to the urban environment, withstands frosts down to – 40 ° C, grows well in the sun and in partial shade. The shrub can be grown outdoors in almost all regions of the Russian Federation.

Beware of fakes and infected planting material, buy seedlings of Cossack juniper Blue Danub in specialized nurseries.