This coniferous shrub has upright spreading reddish-brown branches with weeping tips and form an irregular rounded habit. It has scale-like mid to dark green leaves that densely cover the plant and the female cones appear during late spring.

Hardiness zones 4 to 10

Juniperus x media is a cross between J. chinensis and J. sabina. It grows in most well drained moderately fertile sandy to clay soils and responds to mulching. It prefers an open sunny position but tolerates a semi-shade forming a more open habit. It is mild drought, frosts, pollution and wind tolerant. 

The Pfitzer Juniper is grown for its foliage and its ascending habit.  It is planted along mixed shrub borders for screening or trim to form a hedge. It is also used in formal conifer gardens establishing in 3 to 5 years and can be grown in containers or planter boxes. It is an excellent topiary specimen and is hardy and long-lived. It tolerates cold to warm climates and dwarf cultivars are used as a ground cover. ID 216

Juniperus (jew-NIP-er-us) x media (MEE-dee-ah)

‘Juniperus’: Latin name for this plant, from the Celtic word for rough; ‘media’: intermediate (the habit is neither upright nor prostrate, having branches growing at 45°) ‘pfitzeriana’: commemorative.

Cupressaceae (kew-press-AY-see-ee)
Coniferous Trees