Add year-round texture and soft silvery color to your landscape with Juniperus virginiana ‘Gray Owl’, a hardy evergreen shrub known for its graceful spreading habit and attractive silver-gray foliage. This versatile juniper creates a beautiful low-growing mound that works perfectly as a groundcover, border plant, hedge, or erosion-control shrub.

Female plants produce decorative blue berry-like cones that attract birds and add winter interest to the garden. Extremely adaptable and low maintenance, ‘Gray Owl’ thrives in dry, rocky, and poor soils while tolerating drought, deer, pollution, and cold temperatures with ease. Its elegant color and wildlife value make it a favorite for naturalized landscapes and low-care gardens. You will receive a healthy container-grown plant similar in size and condition to the one shown in the listing photos.

You will receive:
✔️ 1 live Juniperus virginiana ‘Gray Owl’ shrub
✔️ Grown in #3 nursery container
✔️ Healthy, rooted evergreen plant
✔️ Silvery wildlife-friendly landscape shrub
✔️ Secure packaging for safe arrival

Growing Information

• Common Name: Gray Owl Juniper
• Botanical Name: Juniperus virginiana ‘Gray Owl’
• Plant Type: Evergreen spreading shrub
• Growth Stage: Established container-grown plant
• Sun Requirements: Full sun
• Soil: Well-draining soil; tolerant of rocky and poor soils
• Watering: Low to moderate; drought tolerant once established
• Mature Height: 2–3 feet
• Mature Width: Up to 6 feet
• Growth Rate: Slow to moderate
• USDA Zones: 2–9
• Container Friendly: Yes when young

Care Tip: Plant in full sun for the best foliage color and healthiest growth. Avoid consistently wet soils, as junipers prefer excellent drainage once established.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.