Creeping Juniper
Juniperus horizontalis · a blue creeping juniper
A flat, silver-blue evergreen carpet for dry, sunny slopes, rock walls and path edges, very cold-hardy and needing little water once settled. It's a classic choice for holding banks against erosion, and deer leave it alone. Give it full sun and good drainage.
- Mature size
- 6 in × 7 ft
- 0.1 × 2.1 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 3a–9b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry
Creeping Juniper at its mature size
A mature Creeping Juniper grows 4 to 6 inches tall and 6 to 8 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.
Through the year
What Creeping Juniper looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Winter · Dec–Mar
The silver-blue mat tinged plum-purple and bronze.
In leaf · Apr–Nov
Flat mat of soft silver-blue foliage.
Photos
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Growing Creeping Juniper
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, the Plains and Mountain West, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Good for
- Foundation planting, groundcover, drought tolerant, slopes, and deer resistant
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Northern North America
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Creeping Juniper, that’s about 7 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 Creeping 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.