Which juniper turns purple when it gets cold?

[Alain]

I bought a juniper first thing this spring at Home depot.

And I threw the tag away, duh...

The only thing I know about it:
- It's not a chinensis, a nana or a parsonii.
- I was purple-ish when I bought it, now it's green and it will turn purple again this falls/winter.
- All the branches where naturally going up little a Spanish woman fan at the corida del toro.

Anybody could help me identify this guy (which is doing great btw)?

 

[jk_lewis]

J. virginiana

 

[Cypress187]

I haven't got a clue, there are different species junipers

 

[Smoke]

Foemina

 

[GrimLore]

J. virginiana

Mine turn purple/blue and stay that way throughout the Winter. They return to Green slowly in the Spring.

Grimmy

 

[Alain]

J. virginiana

Thanks! I shoud have remember, the mother of my kid's name is Virginia, or may be I did remember and repressed it

 

[sorce]

Home depot has been carrying...

All the branches where naturally going up little a Spanish woman fan at the corida del toro.

Under the Andorra name.
Which is.
http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=c222

I've been seeing them there all year.

Sorce

 

[sorce]

They got more today.
Here is the andorra
Grown in Havana,FL. Errr. Bad.

Maybe it was this Sea Green chinensis.
But I didn't see these in spring.
These are from either Oklahoma, or Maryland, better!


Still think Andorra!

Sorce

 

[Paradox]

Alain, that isnt J. virginiana. That looks like J. horizontalis to me.

Ive seen them advertised as Bar Harbor Juniper. I had one at one point and it freaked me out when it turned purple.

 

[HoneyHornet]

Some by me i was going to take from abandoned landscape are currently purple at tips which is how i got here. Sorry i know the thread is old
They are low ground mounding..whatever they are..prob same as op

According to a few min of research it is totally normal response to cold temps..sort of hibernation or part of frost protection mechanism