Juniper shrubs are getting a second look as homeowners ... Blue Star' juniper is widely planted for its textured blue evergreen foliage and low, mounding habit. It reaches 1-3 feet tall, 1-3 ...

With a low growing habit, this tough evergreen ground cover is useful for lining pathways or filling beds and borders under large trees or shrubs ... like the ‘Blue Point’ juniper.

Since trees and shrubs can live for hundreds of years, identifying these blue rings allows us to spot cold summers in the past. By looking at pine trees and juniper shrubs from northern Norway ...

Overall, only 2.1% of the pine trees' rings and 1.3% of the juniper shrubs' rings were blue; the cells which hadn't lignified properly were mainly found at the end of growth rings, in latewood ...