In garden design, Blue Chip is one of the most popular evergreen shrubs, which feels good not only in parks and gardens, but also in urban conditions: by roads along alleys, on lawns, in cemeteries, in rock gardens, on rocky hills, slopes and parapets. The shrub is mainly used as a ground cover plant and for growing in containers. Do you know why when we go out into nature or into the garden, we feel much calmer and more comfortable than when we are in the city. Of course, you will say, we know. In the city, the atmosphere is polluted, work is nervous, noise, tension, transport, traffic ... All this only harms health, shakes nerves, causes stress and various diseases. In nature, we relax, breathe fresh air, put our nerves in order. Approximately this is how everyone will answer the question asked above. And yet, we will clarify that the main criterion for our peace in nature is not so much clean air, but the color palette surrounding us. Remember the psychology course on how green affects our psyche, and you will immediately understand what networks our subconscious falls into when visiting parks and gardens. Not variegated, but monochromatic green colors soothe, relieve fatigue and discomfort, charge with positive energy, tune in to good thoughts and meditation. That is why the most popular are primarily green or green-blue junipers of monochromatic tones, and yellow or variegated species are used mainly as an accent in the composition.
Horizontal juniper Blue Chip is no exception, but on the contrary - the main character, which is used as a ground cover plant in group plantings to create green living carpets. Not very tall, only 250 - 300 mm with a crown diameter of up to 1.2 - 1.5 m, a fragrant and beautiful shrub from the dwarf species, is able to decorate almost any landscape interior. Blue Chip's needles are prickly and dense, the fruits - cones are almost black and round, with a diameter of 5 - 6 mm, no more. And although the juniper's homeland is China, Japan and Mongolia, juniper feels great and reproduces in almost all latitudes - from southern to northern. In winter, "Blue Chip", like many others of its kind, changes the color of its needles, changing from gray-blue to reddish-brown. The bush is also popular because, despite its attractiveness both in form and color, it is a powerful generator of clean air, purifying the atmosphere around itself from harmful microbes within a radius of at least 10 meters.
