Rocky Mountain Juniper

Description:

Green Juniper tree with bright blue-white berries and red wood.

Habitat:

These trees were planted in our garden. They are "native to western North America, in Canada in British Columbia and southwest Alberta, in the United States from Washington east to North Dakota, south to Arizona and also locally western Texas, and northernmost Mexico from Sonora east to Coahuila (wikipedia)."

Notes:

Grows from 500-2,700 meter altitude on dry soil usually with other juniper. "The juvenile leaves (on young seedlings only) are needle-like, 5-10 mm long. The seed cones are berry-like, globose to bilobed, 6-9 mm in diameter, dark blue with a pale blue-white waxy bloom, and contain two seeds (rarely one or three); they are mature in about 18 months (wikipedia)."