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28.09.2023 - 16:43 / gardenerspath.com / Kristine Lofgren
Tips for Growing Skyrocket Junipers Juniperus scopulorum ‘Skyrocket’
Some garden spaces call for something a little special.
Maybe you need to fill a small corner next to the driveway, or you want to stop the wind from blasting through your yard. You know, the sort of situation where only a ‘Skyrocket’ will do.
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This columnar evergreen is one of the narrowest juniper cultivars currently available. It truly lives up to its “rocket” moniker.
When fully-grown, ‘Skyrocket’ reaches about 20 feet tall and just three feet wide, which means you might mistake it for a small, green rocket if it were sitting on a NASA launchpad. Except this tree is much more elegant than anything NASA has launched, in my humble opinion.
Cold hardy down to -35°F in Zones 3 to 9, this tree is wildly popular across North America as a privacy screen or stately garden specimen.
This adaptable plant can tolerate cold, extreme heat, pollution, high elevations, salty sea air, and depleted soil. It doesn’t do well in super hot, humid areas, though (sorry Hawai’i), but that’s about its only limitation.
Itching to launch a ‘Skyrocket’ into your garden? Here’s what we’re going to discuss to help make that happen:
Evergreens are often the hardworking background plants that fill in when everything else in the garden is hibernating.
But ‘Skyrocket’ can either play the role of a stalwart background plant or an eye-catching focal point. Ready to add one to your space? Let’s talk about where this plant comes from, first.
Cultivation and History‘Skyrocket’ is a cultivar of the Rocky Mountain juniper (Juniperus scopulorum), which is a species also known
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