This conifer is also incorrectly known as 'Torulosa' and 'Tortuosa. This has become such a popular landscape tree around Los Angeles, California, that it's evolved the popular common name, Hollywood juniper. This cultivar originated around 1920 at the Yokohama Nursery, Yokohama City, Kanagawa, Japan. It is frequently offered in containers from a nursery. It tolerates alkaline soil and is quite drought-tolerant but root regeneration is slow after transplanting from a field nursery. And it’s versatile because it works well as a single specimen, in foundation plantings, as a windbreak or privacy screen.
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This conifer grows best in full sun, more open in partial shade, and needs well-drained soil or it will decline from root rot. The Hollywood Juniper is a classic coniferous evergreen shrub with a one-of-a-kind twist: Naturally twisted, upright spiraling growth that makes it especially artistic. Planted on four to six-foot centers, it can develop into a thick screen which could be useful along a driveway, where a narrow, bright green screen is often needed to create privacy. Hollywood juniper develops into a showcase specimen without pruning and is probably best used for this purpose. Although the main body of its foliage is as thick as if it had been sheared, delicately twisted, upright branches emerge gracefully all around the plant, in almost a flame-like manner.ĭo not expect a row of them to provide a uniform shape since crown form varies. After 10 years of growth, a mature specimen will measure 6 feet (2 m) tall and 3 feet (1 m) wide, an annual growth rate of 6 to 8 inches (15 - 20 cm). Juniperus chinensis 'Kaizuka' is a unique, irregular upright selection of Chinese juniper with long sinuous branches holding dense, deep green foliage and light Blue berries. Additions to the International Conifer Register.