Regretting My Juniper Planting Location: Time To Transplant

Join me as I take you through the process of transplanting a Blue Arrow Juniper to a more suitable location.

[@beautifulshadesofgreen]

Your Collection are amazing, I thoroughly enjoyed watching each one of your Videos 😊.

[@TRguy64]

'Blue Arrow' is of my least favorite of upright junipers, though I as well am very keen on 'Medora', I have two, one being very tall and narrow, the other had lost its leader about three winters ago and went very wide at the base in which I have sheared into a large tear drop, it looks great! My favorite for stunning year round blue coloring is 'Moffat Blue', the variety can be a bit awkward and slow relucent to develop a leader and appreciates the occasional shearing, but there's just something special about that BLUE color! I should mention it's not of the taller growing types.

[@Btown-sg8ng]

Thanks for sharing. Glad it’s a small rootball. i’ll Wait til Fall 2024!

[@Anonymously4051]

Excellent information, thank you. Always look forward to your videos, so informative and interesting. Your property is just gorgeous. Beautiful gardens and design. Very inspiring. I love junipers but sadly so do the deers here in southwest Nova Scotia. I sure do miss gardening on the Canadian prairies in zone 3. The beautiful sunshine, the dry conditions, no deers! Love the large metal circles throughout your gardens. Thank you. Keep them coming.

[@tomtwiss8506]

Great video! I am going to be doing this in a few years as I am currently overplanting ever garden bed I have because I cannot help myself :)

[@gardenhike]

I’m in the same boat! Noticing more and more plants “in trouble” from my planting obsession.

[@sonyaluhman4648]

Thank you for sharing and your lawn is beautiful. . .we hope to achieve something similar here in southeast Texas

[@amyk6403]

Thanks! I find that your channel is so useful. I going to transplant a maney juniper. Wish me luck.

[@gardenhike]

I have not come across a Maney Juniper in a long time. Best of luck!

[@lisakeith7313]

Such amazing landscapes! Could you show how to take existing long & narrow flat mulched beds (like 50'x15') with existing trees, shrubs & perennials...and turn them into yours with berms & rocks, etc. We love them! We're willing to move shrubs & perennials, but we just aren't sure with the existing items...what to remove/move, where to start adding soil for berms, along with the bigger landscape rock & how to incorporate the existing mulch with new rock. We plan on edging the beds in rocks. Thank you from zone 4b SD.

[@gardenhike]

I’d be happy to. I’ll attempt to make an in studio video on the subject you are describing (I would work on it this winter). If you can, e-mail me some photos from different angles (and even a couple from a taller ladder) and I’ll see if I can make it work. Sounds like a fun project. Send to [e-mail]

[@urchinsushi2041]

I have a 2 foot tall volunteer seedling of Blue Arrow or something very similar - lucky me!, and I just transplanted it to a permanent home in one of my garden beds. Hopefully it’ll grow to be as beautiful as yours! By the way, do you also get many volunteer seedlings? If so which do you keep? We get a ton of American Holly seedlings, but I usually just compost those. I’m in Zone 7A northern VA

[@gardenhike]

Seedlings on Junipers - Just a handful each season and they usually resemble something more similar to the parent plant like Rocky Mt. Juniper, which can get very large so I don’t keep them. But my Green Ash trees sound like your Holly, thousands of seedlings most years.

[@urchinsushi2041]

@@gardenhike you are right, it makes sense that my juniper seedling may resemble the parent plant - I’ll keep a close eye on it’s growth habit, crossing my fingers it’ll be a neat, narrow form - thank-you for mentioning it!

[@gtaylor5053]

Regarding shearing columnar junipers, is there a certain time of year that’s best to shear them, and are there any times (like heat of summer) when they shouldn’t be sheared? I have some blue arrows and have been too scared to try to shear them . . .

[@gardenhike]

I like to shear evergreens during a window of late winter through early summer. For my area that falls between early March through June. I’ve also done them mid summer a few times without any problems. I usually avoid late summer through mid-winter.

[@green939]

Hi Kevin, in Calgary, and have Wichita blue junipers! We have wrapped them for the last three winters. We have them on the south and west (worst for the wind), so after 3 years, the West ones are doing better than the south ones! Do you have any tips? Do you cover your juniper for winter? Thanks :)

[@gardenhike]

I have one Wichita Blue, and it is doing great! It had some winter burn on the tip growth a few years back (one of the coldest winters I can remember), but the new growth flushed out that spring and made a full recovery. I do not wrap or cover any of my evergreens. I'm not a big fan of the Wilt Stops or similar products, so I have never used them. The best tips are to plant hardy plants for your area and keep adequate moisture in the soil throughout the season. Medora is another excellent cold, hardy Juniper with a tighter form than Wichita and a blueish-green color. Both Junipers are favorites of mine-greetings from the Dakotas; thanks for the comment.

[@thomasmwonner6594]

Im late in doing what i want to do here,, Is late Winter or Early Spring a bad time to do this??

[@gardenhike]

Not a bad time at all, since your plant should still be dormant.

[@farooq2000]

Are you sure that’s a Blue Arrow? That thing is huge.

[@gardenhike]

I used to purchase a lot of nursery stock in a former job, and these Arrows were sourced from one of our best wholesale/growers, so I'm pretty sure. I've noticed many "search" photos show super tight, narrow photos of Arrow, but 2 feet is considered the average width, and I'm right at that point. If I've learned anything over the years, most plants exceed their advertised size range. And due to my over-planting problem, it's becoming a problem 😊.

[@farooq2000]

@@gardenhike Thanks for the reply! Amazing growth! 👍

[@sterlgirlceline]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️How old is your Blue Arrow Juniper here and about how large was it when you planted it? Thank you for posting this 😊🌳

[@gardenhike]

It was 4-5’ tall when I planted it, so very close to the size shown in the video as it had only been in the ground for a couple of years. From a seedling (or cutting), I’m guessing it is now about 9 years old.

[@sterlgirlceline]

@@gardenhike Thank you for taking the time out of your day to respond; greatly appreciated! 😊🌟

[@sterlgirlceline]

@gardenhike One more question, this has a lot of brown, dead/looking spots in it; is that typical? I purchased and planted mine (a privacy screening row of around 7 of them) about 1.5 years ago and I don’t see those brown or dead zones you have on yours yet. Is there a way to avoid that with fertilizing or watering? I am in zone 9b by the way. This video was very helpful as I just had to move one and was so concerned. I feel more confident now.

[@gardenhike]

@@sterlgirlceline The browning was due to a tough winter (environmental damage). Several other conifers also showed injury that same spring. So somewhat normal, for my area, to see injury from time to time.

[@sterlgirlceline]

@@gardenhike Thank you again for taking the time to reply. I really appreciate it 😊🌟!

[@NataliaNatalia-in2fb]

Your Juniper is in a very bad condition. It looks half dead.