The most distinctive difference between the two is the fruit, copper-colored in red berry juniper and blue-green in Ashe juniper. Both species are evergreen trees that grow 18 to 20 feet tall with short trunks and scale-like leaves. Red berry juniper is the most common juniper of the Trans-Pecos (Powell 1998:27). Junipers are usually dioecious, that is some trees have all male flowers and some trees have all female flowers. The distribution of Ashe juniper is centered on the Edwards Plateau, but its westward limits include the eastern edge of the Trans-Pecos. Juniper was a truly useful and important plant for native groups in the Plains and Southwest.īoth Ashe juniper and red berry juniper have overlapping distributions in the western Edwards Plateau and Trans-Pecos regions. Its small fruits were eaten and its leaves were used for medicine and ritual. Its wood and bark was used as fuel and for toolmaking. Juniper is a medium-sized tree and several species grow widely in the region. We are going to go to Recommended Species on our website, select for Central Texas, tree, perennial, and sun, and get a list of possibilities to recommend to you.Red Berry Juniper (Juniperus pinchotii Sudw.)

Go to our Suppliers section, put your city and state in the Location Search Area box, and you will get a list of plant suppliers in your area, with websites or phone numbers so you can check to see if they stock this plant.įailing that, perhaps you would like to try some alternatives for your purposes, wildlife and privacy. If you have the patience, you might go the seed route. Your chances are better with a very small tree. Another problem is that the tree has a long taproot which, if damaged, can result in the death of the tree, which you have apparently already discovered. In the course of our research to answer your question, we ran across this article from the Lower Colorado River Authority on reduction and removal of the Ashe juniper in the Marble Falls area. One problem in obtaining transplants commercially is that a lot of people right now are trying to remove the Ashe juniper instead of propagating it.

The propagation information is near the bottom of the page for this plant on our website. According to our website, propagation should be by seeds that is, the blue berries that appear on the female bushes and are collected in late Summer to Fall. Your property would appear to be in Burnet County, which, according to this USDA Plant Profile for Juniperus ashei (Ashe's juniper), should be a good place for the Ashe juniper to grow.