Golden Glow Juniper Tree Form
Juniperus chinensis ‘Golden Glow’
Golden Glow Juniper Tree Form
Juniperus chinensis ‘Golden Glow’
How are the heights measured?
All tree, and nothin' but the tree! We measure from the top of the soil to the top of the tree; the height of the container or the root system is never included in our measurements.
What is a gallon container?
Nursery containers come in a variety of different sizes, and old-school nursery slang has stuck. While the industry-standard terminology is to call the sizes "Gallon Containers", that doesn't exactly translate to the traditional liquid "gallon" size we think of. You'll find we carry young 1-gallons, up to more mature 7-gallons ranging anywhere from 6 inches to 6ft.
How does the delivery process work?
All of our orders ship via FedEx Ground! Once your order is placed online, our magic elves get right to work picking, staging, boxing and shipping your trees. Orders typically ship out within 2 business days. You will receive email notifications along the way on the progress of your order, as well as tracking information to track your plants all the way to their new home!
Why are some states excluded from shipping?
The short & sweet answer is: "United States Department of Agriculture Restrictions." Every state has their own unique USDA restrictions on which plants they allow to come into their state. While we wish we could serve everyone, it's for the safety of native species and helps prevent the spread of invasive disease & pests. We've gotta protect good ole' Mother Nature, after all.
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The Golden Glow Juniper Tree is an ideal gift tree, because it is unique, rarely available, easy to grow and highly adaptable. It has flashing, yellow-gold foliage covering the whole plant, not just the tips, and it holds that color all year long without fading to green. It has a short trunk that allows it to cascade down in a semi-pendulous fashion, forming a sweeping mound of gold, with uplifting waves of the young shoots. Despite its remarkable and delicate appearance, this tree is super-tough, handling drought, urban conditions, cold and anything except dark and wetness. Planted in a sunny spot it will grow rapidly into a broad, cascading form, 3 -4 feet tall and 4 feet across. The golden color will last throughout the year, unlike many other golden conifers that fade to green after a spring show.
- Dramatic sweep of golden foliage
- Evergreen and stays yellow all year round
- Easy to grow in any sunny spot
- Super-tough and drought resistants
- Forms a striking, semi-cascading broad plant
This tree is so easy to grow it needs no care at all. Once established it thrives in hot, dry conditions, but it is hardy to at least minus 30. Snow and ice will not trouble it and you can be sure that the person you give this tree to will be able to grow it almost anywhere in their garden and enjoy it. It can be a feature in a small bed, part of the foundation planting around a home, or fill a planter box or large pot. This really is a great gift tree that we highly recommend.
- Plant Hardiness Zones 4-9
- Mature Width 4
- Mature Height 4
- Sun Needs Full Sun
In working to put together a collection of unique plants for gift-giving, we decided that something ordinary was clearly not an option. Now junipers are great work-horses around the garden, filling spaces and giving structure and they are easy to grow, but often not too exciting. But when we saw the Golden Glow Juniper Tree we just knew we had to have if for this special gift collection. Here was a juniper that was anything but ‘every day’. This was truly something special.
To begin with there was the color. Almost all junipers are shades of green, blue-green or silver-gray – but the Golden Glow was something else. Like a sunbeam flashing through the clouds after a storm, there truly was a golden glow that streamed from this plant. Its unique golden yellow coloring set it apart from every other juniper we had seen, because although there are some yellow junipers, they all have a lot of green on the older foliage and the gold is rather dull, not vibrant and not uniform over the whole plant as it is in the Golden Glow Juniper Tree. On other varieties it fades to green during the summer, but this plant stays golden all year round.
The shoots of this plant spread outwards – it has a broad spreading habit and would look great as a ground-cover. We weren’t satisfied – we needed more. Then we remember how spreading junipers will hang down when they reach the edge of a wall and we thought that if it was lifted off the ground this plant would cascade down in a series of sun-splashed waves as a semi-weeping plant. Once we had our expert growers mount this plant on a short, sturdy trunk we saw what a success this was and how, now, we really had the killer combination.
Growing Golden Glow Juniper Trees
For those of you looking for something really special to give to anyone, from the beginner to the most discerning gardener, we present to you the Golden Glow Juniper Tree. This lovely tree will grow into a broad, cascading mound, with upward-turning shoots creating beautiful flashes of gold across its undulating surface. It will also grow thicker and taller, reaching around 4 feet in the center and spreading about the same from tip to tip of the mound. It will always be bright and colorful 365 days of the year, looking even more dynamic when the new growth begins in spring, but always keeping that glorious yellow-gold color.
Although this plant is a form of the Chinese Juniper (Juniperus chinensis), it has little resemblance to its distant ancestor, which is a large tree growing wild across most of China. The wild tree normally grows to perhaps 50 feet wide and 20 feet tall, but even growing wild, forms that are wide-spreading and low-growing are also found, and it is from these kinds that spreading junipers like the Golden Glow Juniper Tree have been developed.
Planting Location
When you choose this tree as a gift, don’t worry, the receiver will not need any fancy skills or experience to grow this plant. Junipers are tough and easy to grow, needing no care and being free of pests and diseases. If the Golden Glow Juniper Tree is planted in a sunny spot, in almost any kind of soil, it will thrive with no input at all. It does not like soil that is cold and wet, but once it has become established it will shrug off long periods of dryness without a care.
Drought Tolerance and Air Quality
Not only will the Golden Glow Juniper Tree shrug off drought, it will also be unconcerned about air pollution, traffic fumes or other urban conditions, so this is a great plant for a small urban garden. It will grow well in planter boxes too, and even in a large pot, so you don’t need a garden at all to enjoy its uplifting all-year golden spark.
Buying Golden Glow Junipers at The Tree Center
Golden Glow is not an everyday juniper, indeed it is one of the rarest varieties available, so you can be sure the receiver of your beautiful gift tree will not already have it in their garden. To make sure our plants are true to their name, our growers take selected stem pieces from established parent plants and attach them to strong trunks of common junipers. Other junipers, or cheaper ones grown from seed, will not be the remarkable Golden Glow Juniper Tree, or anything even close to it.
A gift tree should be beautiful, unique, easy to care for and adaptable to any garden. The Golden Glow Juniper Tree ticks all the boxes, so it is the ideal choice. Because this tree is so rare and so rarely offered, we know our limited supply is not going to last, so order now and enjoy the genuine thanks you will receive for such a special gift as this.
