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Blue Carpet Juniper
Juniperus squamata ‘Blue Carpet’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
Supplied in 500mm
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Blue Carpet Juniper - Juniperus squamata ‘Blue Carpet’
Colour is the reason to plant this one. Juniperus squamata ‘Blue Carpet’ is a flat-growing conifer whose needle foliage holds a genuine steel blue rather than the grey-green of most prostrate junipers, and it keeps that colour through the whole year. It spreads as an overlapping mat of horizontal branches that suppresses weeds and holds soil on a slope, which makes it a practical answer for hot, dry, awkward ground as well as a strong contrast against green and burgundy foliage.
Why Blue Carpet
Steel Blue Colour: The blue is consistent year round and intensifies in full sun and cold weather.
Dense Flat Habit: Branches layer horizontally into a mat around 0.4m deep that few weeds penetrate.
Heat and Drought Tolerance: Once established it copes with reflected heat off paving and long dry spells without irrigation.
Slope Holding: The spreading root and branch system is genuinely useful for stabilising a batter or embankment.
Drainage Sensitive: It needs sharp drainage and dry air; it is a poor performer in humid subtropical summers and will not survive wet feet.
Ideal Applications
Mass Groundcover: Planted in blocks it covers large areas of open bed with minimal ongoing work.
Rock and Gravel Gardens: The blue tone sits beautifully against pale stone and decomposed granite.
Wall and Bank Spill: Positioned at a wall top, the branches cascade over the edge.
Verge and Median Planting: Low enough to keep sightlines clear and tough enough for road-edge conditions.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1.2 to 1.5m for a continuous closed mat
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2 to 2.5m where individual plants are to stay distinct
Best Planting Season: Autumn or spring; avoid planting into hot dry soil in midsummer
Soil & Drainage: Sharply drained sandy or gravelly soil, neutral to alkaline; mound or improve drainage on heavy clay sites
Establishment Care: Water weekly for the first summer to settle the roots, then only during extended drought. Mulch with gravel or coarse bark rather than fine compost, and keep mulch and irrigation off the foliage to avoid fungal dieback in humid weather.
Plant Details
Height: 0.3 to 0.5m
Width: 1.5 to 2.5m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun, essential for blue colour
Native to: The Himalayas and western China, as the parent species
Flower Colour: Insignificant
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







