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Juniper - Maney
Junipers are important evergreens for landscape use due to their tolerance of unfavorable soil conditions, their hardiness and great variation in size, habit, color and growth rate. It is a fast grower and has excellent cold tolerance. Requires a well drained soil in a sunny location, adaptable to different soil pH; tolerates fairly alkaline soils and prefers full sun to part shade. Maney Juniper has a handsome appearance and is medium sized for any planting. This evergreen shrub grow 4-5 feet in height and 5-6 feet in width. This is one of the hardiest medium-sized evergreens and makes an excellent choice for any landscape planting. These plants may also be utilized for background plantings in shrub beds or flower gardens, as specimen plants, in rock gardens or for topiary or espalier purposes. It has a horizontal layered, irregular habit. Maney Juniper, Juniperus chinensis 'Maneyi', is a semi-erect juniper that has an attractive blue cast to its foliage, along with gray-green berries in summer. Junipers are used as ground covers, in foundation plantings, or as hedges, screens or windbreaks. ... get more information
Adams Needle The remarkable flower-spikes, 6' or more high, appear when plants are five or more years old. Yucca filamentosa makes dense clumps of stiff leaves 30 inches or so long and edged with fine curly hairs. The Adams Needle bush, Yucca filamentosa, has stiff evergreen rosettes and are part of the scene in hot dry Central and North American scrublands. Otherwise they are handsome architectural foliage plants for dry, sunny borders. |
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