medium growth rate of 12-24"
A 2ft-potted tree can be over 8 ft tall in 5 years in well-drained soil, low moisture, and weed and grass control at the base of the tree. Spacing- Single row 10 ft apart...

EDIBLE PARTS: Juniper tea can be made by placing a dozen young berryless twigs in a quart of cold water; bring to a boil then allow to simmer for 10 minutes. Strain and use as regular tea, in small quantities. SOURCE: Angier, B. 1974. Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants. Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, Pa, 255 pp.

Cedar-apple Rust

Gall on Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) before rain.


Jan-Mar: inspect cedars for galls. Galls do not produce spores until the second spring
Mar/April: the first warm rain of spring, the spore horns become gelatinous masses and produce their teliospores. Wind transmits the spores, infect within 4 hours. Fungicides can reduce outbreak here
Most sprays are applied four times at 7- to 10-day intervals, starting with pink bud on crabapples. These applications are to protect the apples from spores being released from the cedar host in mid-spring.
April 5 Raleigh date for red delicious bloom here
Yellow lesions develop in one to three weeks. If cedar apple rust disease is diagnosed on apple fruits and leaves it is far too late to spray. Systemic fungicides are available.
In July and August, spores from the apple leaves (Aeciospores) are produced, wind dispersed back to cedar. Fungicides listed for use on apples can be used in July and August on the cedars to reduce infection. Application of fungicides to the junipers before and while they are in the infectious orange gelatinous state seems to reduce the severity of the outbreak.