Gold Cone Junipers - Three Bought For Backyard
Number Eight on my 2019 To-Do List is to add some conifers to our yard this season and I'm getting an early start on checking the box. I picked up three of these Gold Cone Junipers that are small sized at Menards this past weekend. I put one of them in the cast iron pot outside of our garage just to fill the space, but I intend to put them in the ground in the backyard as soon as the soil temperature increases later this month. The tag below shows these in their Spring, golden spendor. The back lists the size - which is the big reason I'm drawn to these: they will get about five feet tall, but stay 1-2' wide. Columnar. Or something akin to an 'exclamation point' in the garden. The big question in my mind is: are these trees? Turns out the answer is 'no'. Can't count them as trees. They are technically "evergreen coniferous bush". Can't count them in the number of trees that we've planted - technically. But should