Junipers. To prune or not to prune?

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  1. kindredspirit

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    That is the question.

    I've been told that you shouldn't prune Junipers. Why not?
     
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    Our Juniperus horizontalis clearly isn't aware of of this. ;)
    It gets a light trim most years just to keep it within bounds.
     
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