Western Juniper

This plant is native to the Northwest. It has beautiful scale-like and awl-like needles and the backside has a white resin dot. The Weste...Read Morern Juniper has a strong smell, some say like "cat pee". The bluish berries are the cones of this conifer. It tolerates poor soil but really hates soggy soil...prone to root rot. A lack of good drainage is probably the number one reason in failure to grow. This plant is very useful for screens, wind breaks and hedges or living fences.

I'm from the Sierra, so I decided to try some California plants now that I've moved to Arkansas. Planted this tree in a raised bed in al...Read Morel day sun in the humidity and night-heat of the south.
It is growing like crazy, and not a brown twig after summer, in which the Greenmound and Bluestar junipers in the same bed nearly withered away. Tough and adaptable.