Fruits are an essential
ingredient of gin and they also have been
roasted by the earlier settlers and used as a
substitute for coffee.
'Compressa' - dwarf fastigiate form
making an excellent focal point in the small
garden or rockery
'Depressa' - Prostrate Juniper is very
common in Eastern North America, forming
large patches in open fields. Rarely grows
over 4 feet tall, having many stems
ascending from the base
'Gold Beach' - flat form with young
growing tips colored yellow early in the
spring.
'Oblongo-pendula' - broadly columnar
shrub or small tree with pendulous
branchlets up to 2 feet long.
'Stricta' - Irish Juniper - dark green
foliage.
One of the ways of
identifying this species is that winter buds are
usually present in the axils of the leaves.
