After the first few weeks begin tapering back your watering to every other day then every third day and so on until your newly planted items are flourishing without your assistance. For most 3 gallon size shrubs in the North Florida landscape in average soil, that is neither heavy clay that holds water or really sandy that will take 2-3 weeks of daily watering to ensure that your newly planted shrub will begin to put out new roots and grow into its new home happily. – Water every day during the establishment period. Planting in poorly drained soils make sure to plant your shrubs a minimum of 3 inches ABOVE the surrounding soil level. Plant the top of the root ball level or slightly higher than the surrounding soils. In normal and well draining soils dig the hole as deep as the root ball and two to three times as wide. – Shrubs can be planted in the North Florida | Jacksonville | St.Augustine area at any time during the year. Privacy screen or drought tolerant windscreen.Ĭare of S & J Nursery’s North Florida | Jacksonville | St. – Use as a specimen for a landscape accent or in mass plantings as a hedge/ The North Florida landscape but will quickly establish itself in the landscape with minimal care and is drought tolerant once established in the landscape.īest Uses For Juniper Blue Point in the North Florida | Jacksonville | St. Juniper Blue Point will require water when first planted as all shrubs in – Be sure when planting Blue Point Juniper in the landscape to allow room at the base for its eventual width by either planting scarcely around its base or adding plants easily transplantable to another location once the juniper begins to fill in. Patience with these guys in the landscape when planting from a smaller pot but they are worth the wait in the long run. Juniper Blue Point shrubs are slow to moderate growing. – Slow growing Juniper is densely foliated and has a tapered oval or tear drop shape, pyramidal. Wide at the base tapering to an almost pointed tip giving the plant its name. Juniper Blue Point can reach sizes of 10-12 feet high | 6-8 feet Juniper Blue Point will thrive in sandy well drained soils. Juniper Blue Point Soil Preference / Salt tolerance: – Dense blue green foliage adds color and texture to the landscape
Blue Point Juniper will tolerate light shade, most Juniper plants will tend to grow “leggy” and sparsely foliated over time when not receiving a full 6- 8 hours of direct sun each day. Although like some other Juniper varieties.
– Blue Point Juniper will prefer full sun locations in the North Florida | 88 to 1.2 dry liters in volumeġ.0 to 1.3 dry quarts / 1.1 to 1.41 dry liters in volumeġ.1 to 2.1 dry quarts / 1.2 to 2.3 dry liters in volumeġ.7 to 2.3 dry quart / 1.87 to 2.53 dry liters in volumeĢ.26 to 3.73 dry quarts / 2.49 to 4.11 dry liters in volumeģ.5 to 4.3 dry quarts / 3.85 to 4.74 dry liters in volumeġ.19 to 1.76 dry gallons / 5.24 to 7.75 dry liters in volumeĢ.32 to 2.76 dry gallons / 10.22 to 12.16 dry liters in volumeĢ.92 to 4.62 dry gallons / 12.86 to 20.35 dry liters in volumeĥ.98 to 6.08 dry gallons / 26.34 to 26.S & J Nursry’s Gude to Growing Juniper Blue Point For Northeast Florida Landscapes ( Juniperus Chinensis ‘Blue Point’) 96 dry liter in volumeġ.4 dry quarts / 1.59 dry liters in volumeġ.89 of a dry quart / 2.08 dry liters in volume Nature Hills Container Size by Volume Young Plants to 18 Months If you need to freshen up your foundation plantings, flank a garage or fashion a privacy hedge, join with our many satisfied customers and order your Blue Point Junipers today! It's deer resistant, so no need to worry about the devastation that foraging can sometimes cause other garden plants. Maturing into a beautiful pyramidal shape, it is thick and sturdy enough to withstand windy conditions better than most upright junipers, too. It even does well in the more shaded areas of your landscape. It stays green during the coldest winter and doesn't look wilted in summer heat. Like most junipers, Blue Point is a trooper when it comes to weather extremes. Many of Nature Hills customers train Blue Point into a spiral or a formal cone.
The shape is naturally a soft pyramid, but Blue Point takes a good shearing like a pro and can be shaped any way you would like. The color stays an exceptional blue-green year-round providing a perfect stage for more colorful annuals and perennials. Formal, but not rigid, Blue Point takes what is best of a background evergreen and showcases it.
When you think of a classic evergreen shrub that stands watch by a doorway, or gives weight to the corners of a border, you are thinking of the Blue Point Juniper.