Blue Star Juniper
Juniperus squamata ‘Blue Star’ · a blue mounding juniper
A slow, compact mound of vivid silver-blue needles, a bright accent for rock gardens, foundations, small spaces and pots. It thrives in hot, dry, stony spots and poor soil, handles heat and humidity better than many junipers, and deer leave it alone. Wet soil is its undoing.
- Mature size
- 2 × 2.5 ft
- 0.6 × 0.8 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 4a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry to moist
Blue Star Juniper at its mature size
A mature Blue Star Juniper grows 1 to 3 feet tall and 1 to 4 feet wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension, The Tree Center.
Through the year
What Blue Star Juniper looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Year-round
Dense silver-blue needles.
Photos
Growing Blue Star Juniper
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Midwest, the Plains and Mountain West, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Good for
- Small space, foundation planting, specimen, drought tolerant, and deer resistant
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- China and Himalayas
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Blue Star Juniper, that’s about 2.5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Blue Star Juniper in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other junipers
Blue Rug Juniper
Creeping Juniper
Blue Star Juniper
JuniperAll drawn to the same scale.