Grey Owl Juniper Shrub

Grey Owl Juniper Adds Wildlife Appeal and Soil-Stabilizing Beauty to Any Landscape Low-Maintenance Ground Cover with Striking Blue-Green Foliage Grey Owl Juniper is a hardy evergreen shrub known for its soft, blue-green foliage, drought tolerance, and low, spreading growth habit—ideal for ground cover, slopes, and wildlife gardens. Easy-care and long-lived with year-round visual appeal. Like other junipers, is an evergreen shrub with lacey scale-like leaves instead of needles, similar to cedars. It is a variety of our native evergreen, Juniperus virginiana, or eastern red cedar. Its unique blue-green or teal-colored foliage remains attractive year-round.  This juniper remains short, only about waist or chest high, but spreads to as much as six feet wide. The low, spreading habit and open form make it great as a groundcover anywhere with full sun. It is long-lived and, with care in a good site, can remain on the landscape for over fifty years. ‘Grey Owl’ will produce small, faded-deni