Sabina chinensis seed

LATIN NAME: Juniperus chinensis

COMMON NAME: Chinese Juniper

Walk through any old garden of the East and you will see the Chinese juniper. The tough, adaptable, evergreen conifer carries the two kinds of foliage, the fine, scale-like leaves on the mature growth and the sharper, needle-like leaves on the young shoots, and the small, blue-black, berry-like cones ripen through the second year. The plant takes the clip and the training well, and it is one of the great, long-lived plants of the garden and the landscape. It is a plant of the open, sunny, well-drained ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The Chinese juniper is a familiar name in the long work on the scale-like leaves and the berry-like cones. The way the plant takes the clip, the training and the poor soils has been studied steadily, and it keeps showing up in the studies of the conifers, the hedging plants and the members of the cypress family. The two kinds of foliage and the tough, adaptable habit have also made it a fine garden plant, and the Chinese juniper is a regular figure in the work on the long-lived evergreens of the old gardens.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The Chinese juniper is a steady, long-lived presence of the garden and the landscape. The tough, adaptable evergreen takes the clip, the training and the poor, dry soils, and it is a fine, long-lived choice for the hedge, the screen, the topiary and the bonsai, standing the years well. The small, blue-black, berry-like cones draw the birds, and the fine, scale-like foliage keeps the plant neat through the year. It has been written about in the horticultural papers for the toughness, the longevity and the training ways, and it is a fine, long-lived plant of the open, sunny, well-drained garden.

The Chinese juniper is one of the great, long-lived plants of the old gardens, taking the clip, the training and the poor, dry soils. The small, blue-black, berry-like cones draw the birds, and the fine, scale-like foliage keeps the plant neat through the year.

To grow the Chinese juniper from seed, sow the small, round seeds at a shallow depth in trays of moist, free-draining soil, after a short cold spell, keep the trays in a bright, open spot and water gently. The seedlings show themselves within a few weeks and grow on slowly. With the sun and the well-drained ground, the neat, scale-like foliage will thicken through the years.

This is a rare plant.