while waiting for dax ,here's mine (peeking out behind minuta and below densiflora)
adout 12 ft around
ron

i have one called gold lace ... as well as a DF ...

physiologically .. you cant tell them apart.. or i should say.. i cant ....

but GL is lower than DF ... but who can say .. its not... as a relator might say.. location.. location.. location ... one takes a lot more snow load ... and guess which one.. presents lower????

i misplanted DF .... and have taken half of it.. for 3 years running.. you cant beat this thing back with a stick ..... its like an energizer bunny .... fornicating all over the place.. wait.. thats not what i meant ...

ken

Yes, it's J. x media 'Daub's Frosted'. We used to call it J. chinensis but that was incorrect.

plantkiller obviously shows us the height it's capable of reaching. You'd be working to keep it low. Mine stayed low for the six years I lived there (less than 18" I'd guess)

This is 2004 from 1-gallons probably planted in 2002 when everything most of us would buy came from Stanley & Sons.
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Dax

Mine is 8 years old, about 6' wide x 18' tall at peak. Mostly a low spreader. Certainly doesn't have upright or ground hugging characteristics.

Dax - what I remember - and that's becoming a bit more difficult with age - was a plant that was 6-8 ft in diameter and no more than 18 inches tall. I liked the way it grew laterally laying fairly flat, but not a ground hugging carpet juniper type. Staying under 24 inches would work fine for what I'm looking for. Painkillers plant looks like it mounds up somewhat in the center and then flattens out as it grows laterally.. Maybe I need to rethink our need a bit more.
I drove by the old house last night using Google Maps Street View and there's nothing left back in that spot. But the Acer griseum inside the fence has grown very well.
Thanks for the comments.
Marshall

Yep, No doubt keeping it under 24" would require some work. That shouldn't be any big deal.

The girl that bought that house didn't even mow the lawn for an entire summer. The place went to hell in a handbasket.

A 9' tall Rhododendron that was there when I moved in is now toast. Everything, junked up. The remainders are the Metasequoia, an Acer japonicum 'Acontifolium' & Acer palmatum 'Seiryu', and probably 1/3 of the dwarf conifers.

Glad I dug up quite a few things at the very last minute.

Dax

Marshal, my pic might be deceiving ,planted on small hill elevated from point of view,,,it can't be much more than 2 ft
but ken is right about beating back with stick or lawn tractor
dia.has been pruned twice ,,,never top,,might be 16 ft by now if hadn't
ron