Skip to content

Juniper Trees

Junipers are some of the toughest evergreens around, from groundcovers on a slope to columns by the door. The two things that trip people up are browning, which has several causes, and pruning, because junipers do not grow back from bare wood.

If yours is browning, start with why junipers turn brown. Before you pick up the shears, read when and how to prune a juniper.

Guides by Nick Robinson

Start here

Juniper Trees

How to Identify a Juniper Tree

Scale-like and prickly needles, blue berry-like cones and shreddy bark: here is how to recognize a juniper and tell eastern red-cedar from look-alikes.

Juniper guides by topic

Problems and diagnosis

Pruning and care

Planting

Identification, size and types

Looking for something else? The Tree Symptom Checker works by tree, symptom and season, and the Tree Problems hub sorts problems by what you can see.

All juniper tree articles

Every juniper tree article on Tree Fluent, newest first.