Growth habits vary from low growing to upright or spreading shrub to small tree.
Wide range of shapes and sizes. Needle color varies from blue to dark green. Due to the many sizes, growth habits and forms of junipers, they offer many uses in the landscape from ground covers to specimen trees. Useful in landscapes in urban settings due to high tolerance to heat, and poor, dry soils. May be used as hedge, screens, windbreaks, foundation plants, specimen plants and incorporated into rock gardens, shrubs borders and other diverse landscape designs.