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Juniperus × pfitzeriana 'Pfitzeriana Aurea'
[Golden Pfitzer Juniper]

This popular cultivar is wide-spreading and moderately flat-topped with bright green mature foliage and attractive, slightly drooping golden yellow young shoots. Widely adaptable to soils and climates, except for low light conditions. Tolerates alkaline soils, heat, and drought. Members of this species are used from New England to Minnesota to Louisiana. Phomopsis and Kabatina blights can be a serious problem in some areas, especially for small plants.
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Juniperus × pfitzeriana 'Pfitzeriana Glauca'
[Blue Pfitzer Juniper]

The Blue Pfitzer Juniper is a male cultivar that has distinctly bluish foliage and a dense, broad, spreading form. Widely adaptable to soils and climates, except for low light conditions. Tolerates alkaline soils, heat, and drought. Members of this species are used from New England to Minnesota to Louisiana. Phomopsis and Kabatina blights can be a serious problem in some areas, especially for small plants.
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Juniperus × pfitzeriana 'Pfitzeriana Nelson’s Compact'
[Nelson's Compact Pfitzer Juniper]

This slow-growing cultivar is compact with bluish-green foliage that has a whitish-cast. Widely adaptable to soils and climates, except for low light conditions. Tolerates alkaline soils, heat, and drought. Members of this species are used from New England to Minnesota to Louisiana. Phomopsis and Kabatina blights can be a serious problem in some areas, especially for small plants.
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Juniperus × pfitzeriana 'Pfitzeriana Owens'
[Owens Pfitzer Juniper]

The Owens Pfitzer Juniper has a compact, low-growing, and spreading form. Widely adaptable to soils and climates, except for low light conditions. Tolerates alkaline soils, heat, and drought. Members of this species are used from New England to Minnesota to Louisiana. Phomopsis and Kabatina blights can be a serious problem in some areas, especially for small plants.
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Juniperus virginiana
[Eastern Redcedar]

Widely adapted to soils and climates, as evidenced by the species' wide geographic range. Does well in alkaline soils, but not wet soils. Alternate host for cedar-apple rust disease. Plant other juniper species in areas having many apples, hawthorns, etc. Susceptible to bagworms.
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