Kaizuka Twisted Juniper

Juniperus chinensis ‘Kaizuka‘

Other Names: Kaizuka Juniper, Hollywood Juniper

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 3a-9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Coniferous Evergreen Shrub

Height at Maturity: 15-30′

Width at Maturity: 10-15′

Spacing: 12′ for solid hedges; 18’+ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Upright, Twisted Branching

Growth Rate: Fast

Flower Color: na

Flower Size: na

Flowering Period: na

Flower Type: na

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Rich Medium to Dark Green

Fragrant Foliage: Yes

Berries: No

Berry Color: NA

Sun Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun, Morning Sun with Light Afternoon Shade, Morning Shade with Evening Sun

Water Needs: Very Low when established

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sandy, Silty

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist or Dry

Soil pH: 6.0 – 7.5 (Moderately Acid to Slightly Alkaline)

Maintenance / Care: Very Low when left in it’s natural form

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Cold Temperatures (-40F / Zones 3-8), Deer – more info, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Insect, High Salt Tolerance

Description

The Kaizuka Twisted Juniper is an extremely hardy and easy-to-grow Juniper with each individual plant having a personality of its own. Maturing on average to 15 feet tall and 10 feet wide, its skyward facing branches twist and turn in all directions. When left to grow natural, with little or no pruning, it makes for an interesting and eye-catching focal point specimen, espalier (grown flat against a wall), or as a natural hedge or privacy screen. With some selective pruning it is an excellent candidate for a pom pom topiary tree. Exceptionally cold and heat hardy and drought tolerant, this one is a great choice for the gardener looking for unique, low maintenance plants!

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing upright in an irregular, twisted form to 15 feet tall and 10 feet wide on average, the Kaizuka Twisted Juniper is ideal for use as a specimen, in groupings, or in rows to form a natural hedge in sunny landscape borders. We often use it in design as espalier (trained to grow flat against a wall) on sunny walls in home foundation plantings. Also, an excellent candidate for pom pom and other topiary shapes and forms. A fine addition to conifer gardens, Asian theme gardens, rock gardens, topiary gardens, oddity gardens and the Xeriscape (low water needs)..

Spacing: 12 feet apart for solid hedges and privacy screens; 18 feet apart for space between plants

Growing Preferences

The Kaizuka Twisted Juniper is exceptionally easy to grow in well-drained moist to dry soils of low to average fertility and full to mostly sun. Exceptionally low maintenance and drought tolerant when established. No pruning is ever necessary. That said, this plant can be trained into unlimited shapes and forms. A perfect candidate for pom-pom and other topiary forms.

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