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While tromping through the snow looking for Prairie Crocus flowers - see yesterday's post - I kept my eyes peeled for other interesting photo ops. There was a surprising amount of colour evident, from the Juniper cones seen here to lichens on glacial erratics, some of which may eventually make it into this Photostream. Every season has its charm, and often the seasons of transition, spring and fall, are the most dynamic - and therefore the most fun - to shoot.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2021 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
We spent a spectacular day hiking among these buttes and rolling sand hills. The exposed, dead roots in the foreground are Creeping Juniper, a prostrate evergreen shrub that is common in our area. You can see the living plants growing in clusters throughout this photo, along with rabbitbrush and native grass that - unfortunately - I didn't take time to identify. It may be Northern Wheat Grass (a wild guess).
The shattered rock appears to be ironstone, perhaps the remnants of a concretion - I'm full of wild guesses today, but I have seen ironstone concretions in this national park. When dinosaurs roamed, this entire area was a vast, shallow seabed, so conditions were favourable for the development of concretions.
Botanical and geological specifics aside, the dispersal pattern of these rock fragments led me to this composition. Patterns out of chaos, especially in a primal landscape, always pull me in.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2021 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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A simple abstraction on a winter hoarfrost morning a decade ago. I was shooting with my first full frame sensor camera, the Nikon D800; I'd had it for a month and was enthralled with the detail it could deliver.
Although I do my share of complaining about winter - mainly that it goes on too long - its graphic qualities are amazing. In any other season, this shot would not be possible. Hidden under the snow are dry, brittle, broken grasses, leaf debris, pebbles including broken shale from the prehistoric, inland Bearpaw Sea, bits of windblown fluff including feathers and dandelion-like seeds, and more of the juniper roots themselves: in short, a riot of shapes in a chaotic jumble. Oh, and double the confusion by adding the shadow cast by each of these objects on a sunny day.
Instead, all of that is covered up and smoothed over by the snowy cloak of early winter. Note that early winter - December - is when I tend to get my best winter photos. There is a tapering off of enthusiasm as it grinds into January and February.
I don't recall whether I saw the potential for black and white while setting up this shot. I used my tripod to guarantee sharpness and give myself full freedom of f-stop and shutter speed (as with the two previous images in this set).
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2012 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
I liked the way the two ancient, exposed roots of Creeping Juniper (Juniperus horizontalis) led my eye to a scattering of Prairie Rose (Rosa arkansana). Nothing on the ground in front of me cried out for an obvious photo op; there's no calendar shot here or anything to make a casual observer go "Wow!" And yet... and yet... somehow, the elements fell together for me in a way I really like, and at this point in my photography career that's all I really care about. A simple composition. No frills.
This is the prairie turf I traverse at all times of year, with variations. Sometimes I find myself slipping and sliding on bentonite clay. In places I find sandstone, mudstone, ironstone. I love the textures of cracked soil or mud along the river valley in the heat of summer, and I even love the snowdrifts of winter. More or less. (I would say that after four months of winter, I enjoy them less than more...) This entire area once lay beneath a shallow inland sea, and the badlands that have been exposed via water erosion (mostly via glacial meltoff at the end of the last Ice Age) are late Cretaceous deposits known as the Bearpaw Shale, or Bearpaw Formation.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2018 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Weyerhaeuser, one of the world's largest pulp and paper companies, maintains a bonsai collection at its world headquarters in Federal Way, Washington, USA, as a sort of tribute to treeness.
This is a Creeping Juniper (Juniperus horizontalis) and is by American bonsai artist John Yoshio Naka.
Three trunks of Creeping Juniper (Juniperus horizontalis) across the rock formation with lichens. Roche Percee, Saskatchewan, Canada. 27 June 2024
Made a 2nd visit to UT Gardens Knoxville today. I brought my Sigma 19mm f2.8 EX DN lens with variable ND filter and my 3 Legged Thing Punks Corey tripod to get long exposures of the Koi ponds. I also brought my Nikon 55mm Macro lens to get detailed close-ups of the flowers. And I also brought my DJI drone (recorded some video and captured a panorama ) and Xiaomi Yi Action Cam (got video riding Downtown through World's Fair Park ) too!
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"Juniperus horizontalis 'Mother Lode', 2017, [Creeping Juniper], joo-NIP-ur-us hore-ih-zun -TAY-liss, 6inx4FT #Conifer, USDA Hardiness Zone 4, Creeping Yellow, Bloom Month --, In Garden Bed R1 for 7.9 YEARS.
Prostrate, slow grower. From iseli nursery in OR. Planted in front garden, near driveway. spread 8-10', 4"" off the ground. Creeping branches root as they grow along the ground. Fleshy seed cones (berries) are infrequently produced. This is a sport of 'Wiltonii'. Grows much slower than Wiltonii. Planted in 2009.
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"Juniperus horizontalis 'Good Vibrations Gold', 2018, [Creeping Juniper], joo-NIP-ur-us hore-ih-zun -TAY-liss, 6inx4ft. #Conifer, USDA Hardiness Zone 4, Creeping Yellow, Bloom Month --, In Garden Bed Y1 for 0.6 YEARS (Blue).
Seasonal color on soft-to-the-touch branches. Begins chartreuse, changes to bright yellow in summer and then picks up orange hues in the autumn. Spreading horizontal shape is good on hillsides and banks. Proven Winners® selection. Junipers are drought tolerant and deer resistant.
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"Juniperus horizontalis 'Mother Lode', 2017, [Creeping Juniper], joo-NIP-ur-us hore-ih-zun -TAY-liss, 6inx4FT #Conifer, USDA Hardiness Zone 4, Creeping Yellow, Bloom Month --, In Garden Bed R1 for 8.0 YEARS.
Prostrate, slow grower. From iseli nursery in OR. Planted in front garden, near driveway. spread 8-10', 4"" off the ground. Creeping branches root as they grow along the ground. Fleshy seed cones (berries) are infrequently produced. This is a sport of 'Wiltonii'. Grows much slower than Wiltonii. Planted in 2009.
#Juniperus #CreepingJuniper
Fassett's Juniper is a low growing juniper in the Missouri Breaks area of central Montana, including in the CMR Wildlife Refuge, which looks like a hybrid between the tree Juniperus scopulorum, which is common in this area, and the creeping Juniperus horizontalis, which is not so common in this area. This shrubby juniper has branch ends that curve upward rather than creep along at ground level, like what would be expected of Juniperus horizontalis. This site lies within the Wyoming big sagebrush steppe north of Fourchette Bay and west of Reynolds Road in southern Phillips County Montana.
Creeping juniper is found mostly on the west facing slopes of Burke Park, along with Rocky Mountain and common juniper. This site lies on the west facing slopes towards the south end of Burke Park where the trail descends to South Church Avenue in the vicinity of Martel Construction, Bozeman, Montana.
Witches Broom on Juniperus horizontalis 'Creeping Juniper', This is not uncommon on Junipers in our area. The needles form a ball like growth that will eventually die. A Witch's broom is a disease or deformity in a woody plant, typically a tree or shrub, where the natural structure of the plant is changed. A dense mass of shoots grow from a single point, with the resulting structure resembling a broom or a bird's nest. Witch's broom growth may last several years and can be caused by many different types of organisms, such as fungi, insects, mistletoe, mites, nematodes, and viruses, Erlton-Roxboro Natural Area, Cypress Family, Cupressaceae, 2008 25 Jul_2122acr
Fassett's Juniper is a low growing juniper in the Missouri Breaks area of central Montana, including in the CMR Wildlife Refuge, which looks like a hybrid between the tree Juniperus scopulorum, which is common in this area, and the creeping Juniperus horizontalis, which is not so common in this area. This shrubby juniper has branch ends that curve upward rather than creep along at ground level, like what would be expected of Juniperus horizontalis. This site lies within the Wyoming big sagebrush steppe north of Fourchette Bay and west of Reynolds Road in southern Phillips County Montana.
Juniperus horizontalis is abundant along the west facing slopes of Burke Park where it co-occurs with Rocky Mountain juniper and common juniper. This site lies along the trail leading from Church Street in the vicinity of Martel Construction to the Burke Park ridgeline, Bozeman, Montana.
"Juniperus horizontalis 'Mother Lode', 2017, [Creeping Juniper], joo-NIP-ur-us hore-ih-zun -TAY-liss, 6inx4FT #Conifer, USDA Hardiness Zone 4, Creeping Yellow, Bloom Month --, In Garden Bed R1 for 7.9 YEARS.
Prostrate, slow grower. From iseli nursery in OR. Planted in front garden, near driveway. spread 8-10', 4"" off the ground. Creeping branches root as they grow along the ground. Fleshy seed cones (berries) are infrequently produced. This is a sport of 'Wiltonii'. Grows much slower than Wiltonii. Planted in 2009.
#Juniperus #CreepingJuniper
A picture of a sun was placed near the Bonsai and when you looked through the limbs of the Bonsai, it looked like you were watching the sun rising against the tree. This is my attempt at capturing said imagery.
Juniperus procumbens
Fukinagashi Style (windswept)
Plant Origin: United States
Container Origin: David Lowman, Dasu Studio
Approximate Age: 35
Years in Training: 5
Exhibited by Peter Keane
Juniperus procumbens
Fukinagashi Style (windswept)
Plant Origin: United States
Container Origin: David Lowman, Dasu Studio
Approximate Age: 35
Years in Training: 5
Exhibited by Peter Keane
Juniperus procumbens
Fukinagashi Style (windswept)
Plant Origin: United States
Container Origin: David Lowman, Dasu Studio
Approximate Age: 35
Years in Training: 5
Exhibited by Peter Keane
"Juniperus horizontalis 'Good Vibrations Gold', 2017, [Creeping Juniper], joo-NIP-ur-us hore-ih-zun -TAY-liss, 6inx4FT #Conifer, USDA Hardiness Zone 4, Creeping Yellow, Bloom Month --, In Garden Bed a0 for 3 DAYS.
Seasonal color on soft-to-the-touch branches. Begins chartreuse, changes to bright yellow in summer and then picks up orange hues in the autumn. Spreading horizontal shape is good on hillsides and banks. Proven Winners® selection. Junipers are drought tolerant and deer resistant.
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Most of the junipers on the hillside are males but a few are females which give us some color. Female plant with last year's bluish berry-like cones, Elbow River in Britannia, Cypress Family, Cupressaceae, 2008 03 Apr_0026acr
This is taken in the low dunes at Point Betsie, Benzie County, Michigan. The common name of the Bearberry is repeated in Greek and Latin in the generic name and the specific epithet. I've always loved the creeping juniper -- such an unusual habit for a species in a genus that is usually represented by trees and upright shrubs.
A picture of a sun was placed near the Bonsai and when you looked through the limbs of the Bonsai, it looked like you were watching the sun rising against the tree. This is my second attempt at capturing said imagery.
Juniperus procumbens
Fukinagashi Style (windswept)
Plant Origin: United States
Container Origin: David Lowman, Dasu Studio
Approximate Age: 35
Years in Training: 5
Exhibited by Peter Keane
"Juniperus horizontalis 'Wiltonii', 2017, Blue Rug [Creeping Juniper], joo-NIP-ur-us hore-ih-zun -TAY-liss, 0.5x8 ft #Conifer, USDA Hardiness Zone 3, silver blue foliage, purple tones in winter., Bloom Month --, In Garden Bed R1 for 7.8 YEARS.
Frontyard near driveway. Female cultivar noted for its excellent, dense, prostrate form, typically growing to 4-6” tall and spreading to 6-8’ wide. Silver blue foliage with purple tones in winter. This cultivar is synonymous with J. horizontalis ‘Blue Rug’. Planted in 2009. Sport 'Mother Lode' adjacent.
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One of the many lovely native plants we saw at the New England Wildflower Society's Garden in the Woods in Framingham, MA, this past weekend. This was our first visit - hopefully it won't be our last.
Note: the red berries are from a Jack-in-the-Pulpit. The greenery in front is from a different kind of plant.
"Juniperus horizontalis 'Mother Lode', 2017, [Creeping Juniper], joo-NIP-ur-us hore-ih-zun -TAY-liss, 6inx4FT #Conifer, USDA Hardiness Zone 4, Creeping Yellow, Bloom Month --, In Garden Bed R1 for 8.0 YEARS.
Prostrate, slow grower. From iseli nursery in OR. Planted in front garden, near driveway. spread 8-10', 4"" off the ground. Creeping branches root as they grow along the ground. Fleshy seed cones (berries) are infrequently produced. This is a sport of 'Wiltonii'. Grows much slower than Wiltonii. Planted in 2009.
#Juniperus #CreepingJuniper
Juniperus horizontalis 'Hegedus' GOOD VIBRATIONS (Mark Hegedus, OH 2012) 2020 photo - Common Name: Dwarf Creeping Juniper, Size at 10 years: 6inx4ft., Begins chartreuse, changes to bright yellow in summer and then picks up orange hues in the autumn., USDA Hardiness Zone 4, In Garden Bed Y1 for 2.6 YEARS (Blues). Planted in 2017.
Patent: The new Juniper plant is a naturally-occurring branch mutation of Juniperus horizontalis ‘Hughes’, not patented. The new Juniper plant was discovered and selected by the Inventor on a single plant within a population of plants of ‘Hughes’ in a controlled greenhouse environment in Geneva, Ohio.
Seasonal color on soft-to-the-touch branches. Begins chartreuse, changes to bright yellow in summer and then picks up orange hues in the autumn. Spreading horizontal shape is good on hillsides and banks. Proven Winners® selection. Junipers are drought tolerant and deer resistant. Good Vibrations® Gold Juniperus horizontalis 'Hegedus' USPP 22,743, Can 4,643. Spring Meadow Nursery, Inc. (Grand Haven, MI, US).
pruh-nuhn-see-ey-shuh n: joo-NIP-ur-us hore-ih-zun -TAY-liss
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Juniperus horizontalis 'Hegedus' GOOD VIBRATIONS (Mark Hegedus, OH 2012) 2020 photo - Common Name: Dwarf Creeping Juniper, Size at 10 years: 6inx4ft., Begins chartreuse, changes to bright yellow in summer and then picks up orange hues in the autumn., USDA Hardiness Zone 4, In Garden Bed Y1 for 2.6 YEARS (Blues). Planted in 2017.
Patent: The new Juniper plant is a naturally-occurring branch mutation of Juniperus horizontalis ‘Hughes’, not patented. The new Juniper plant was discovered and selected by the Inventor on a single plant within a population of plants of ‘Hughes’ in a controlled greenhouse environment in Geneva, Ohio.
Seasonal color on soft-to-the-touch branches. Begins chartreuse, changes to bright yellow in summer and then picks up orange hues in the autumn. Spreading horizontal shape is good on hillsides and banks. Proven Winners® selection. Junipers are drought tolerant and deer resistant. Good Vibrations® Gold Juniperus horizontalis 'Hegedus' USPP 22,743, Can 4,643. Spring Meadow Nursery, Inc. (Grand Haven, MI, US).
pruh-nuhn-see-ey-shuh n: joo-NIP-ur-us hore-ih-zun -TAY-liss
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Additional photos of this plant:
Illinois:
trailing juniper Endangered
Iowa:
creeping juniper Threatened
New Hampshire:
creeping juniper Endangered
New York:
prostrate juniper Endangered
Vermont:
creeping juniper Threatened
"Juniperus horizontalis 'Good Vibrations Gold', 2017, [Creeping Juniper], joo-NIP-ur-us hore-ih-zun -TAY-liss, 6inx4FT #Conifer, USDA Hardiness Zone 4, Creeping Yellow, Bloom Month --, In Garden Bed Y1 for 0 DAYS.
Seasonal color on soft-to-the-touch branches. Begins chartreuse, changes to bright yellow in summer and then picks up orange hues in the autumn. Spreading horizontal shape is good on hillsides and banks. Proven Winners® selection. Junipers are drought tolerant and deer resistant.
#Juniperus #CreepingJuniper
Juniperus horizontalis 'GOOD VIBRATIONS' 3/2022 Creeping Juniper Y1- (Mark Hegedus, OH 2012) Dwarf Creeping Juniper, Size at 10 years: 6inx4ft., Begins chartreuse, changes to bright yellow in summer and then picks up orange hues in the autumn., USDA Hardiness Zone 4, Michigan Bloom Month -, In Garden Bed Y1 for 4.7 YEARS (Bluestone). Planted in 2017.
Patent: The new Juniper plant is a naturally-occurring branch mutation of Juniperus horizontalis 'Hughes', not patented. The new Juniper plant was discovered and selected by the Inventor on a single plant within a population of plants of 'Hughes' in a controlled greenhouse environment in Geneva, Ohio.
Seasonal color on soft-to-the-touch branches. Begins chartreuse, changes to bright yellow in summer and then picks up orange hues in the autumn. Spreading horizontal shape is good on hillsides and banks. Proven Winners® selection. Junipers are drought tolerant and deer resistant. Good Vibrations® Gold Juniperus horizontalis 'Hegedus' USPP 22,743, Can 4,643. Spring Meadow Nursery, Inc. (Grand Haven, MI, US).
Photo by F.D.Richards, SE Michigan. Link to additional photos of this plant from 2017, 18, 20, 21, 22:
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Young aspen trees on the south facing slopes of Bowmont Park, free of ice and snow, glow in the early morning sun as they await warmer temperatures of spring in Calgary.
"Juniperus horizontalis 'Wiltonii', 2018 photo, Blue Rug Creeping Juniper, , USDA Hardiness Zone 3, silver blue foliage, purple tones in winter., Michigan Bloom Month --, In Garden Bed R1 for 9.1 YEARS (Lowe). Planted in 2009.
Frontyard near driveway. Female cultivar noted for its excellent, dense, prostrate form, typically growing to 4-6” tall and spreading to 6-8’ wide. Silver blue foliage with purple tones in winter. This cultivar is synonymous with J. horizontalis ‘Blue Rug’. Planted in 2009. Sport 'Mother Lode' adjacent. Major trim 2017.
#Juniperus #CreepingJuniper
Juniperus horizontalis 'GOOD VIBRATIONS' 3/2022 Creeping Juniper Y1- (Mark Hegedus, OH 2012) Dwarf Creeping Juniper, Size at 10 years: 6inx4ft., Begins chartreuse, changes to bright yellow in summer and then picks up orange hues in the autumn., USDA Hardiness Zone 4, Michigan Bloom Month -, In Garden Bed Y1 for 4.7 YEARS (Bluestone). Planted in 2017.
Patent: The new Juniper plant is a naturally-occurring branch mutation of Juniperus horizontalis 'Hughes', not patented. The new Juniper plant was discovered and selected by the Inventor on a single plant within a population of plants of 'Hughes' in a controlled greenhouse environment in Geneva, Ohio.
Seasonal color on soft-to-the-touch branches. Begins chartreuse, changes to bright yellow in summer and then picks up orange hues in the autumn. Spreading horizontal shape is good on hillsides and banks. Proven Winners® selection. Junipers are drought tolerant and deer resistant. Good Vibrations® Gold Juniperus horizontalis 'Hegedus' USPP 22,743, Can 4,643. Spring Meadow Nursery, Inc. (Grand Haven, MI, US).
Photo by F.D.Richards, SE Michigan. Link to additional photos of this plant from 2017, 18, 20, 21, 22:
www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=50697352%40N00&sort=da...
#Conifer, #Dwarf, #JuniperusHorizontalis, #Juniperus, #CreepingJuniper, #ProvenWinners®
Juniperus horizontalis 'Gold Strike', 2019 photo, Common Name: Intermediate Creeping Juniper, Size: 6inx4ft., Vivid yellow, USDA Hardiness Zone 4, Michigan Bloom Month x, In Garden Bed HR-C for 4.1 YEARS (HLG). Planted in 2015.
Iseli Nursery: The spreading, vivid yellow foliage of Juniperus horizontalis ‘Gold Strike’ creates a bright, cheery spot in the garden throughout the year. In spring, brilliant new growth freshens up the chartreuse interior foliage and continues the sparkling display through fall, when the look gradually softens with coral tones. The low, somewhat mounded, seedling selection from J.h. ‘Mother Lode’ performs best grown in moist, well-drained soil and protected from scorching sun.
MSU Hidden Lake Gardens, Harper Collection of Rare & Dwarf Conifers
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