This is a tree that I picked up from a guys who was selling off his collection, sorry I don't have any before pictures, it was one of those times when inspiration just hit me after looking and looking at the tree.
When I purchased it the Juniper was an informal upright with a semi cascade branch coming from the lower part of the tree, it was in a square semi cascade pot.
As I had the tree on the turntable and spinning it slowly around looking at it from different angles, I decided that the best result would be a Literati.
Removing all of the branches from the bottom section of the tree was the start, then thinning out the other branching, I still think one branch needs to be removed but I will give it some time and see if my view changes, after wiring and setting the new branching in place I also set a new apex and added a Jin, again not 100% sure about the Jin.
A repot into a glazed drum pot and a good feed. I will give it a bit of time and see how it appears once it has developed the pads, guessing it will need a little more attention in several months, all in all I am pretty happy with the outcome considering what it was to start with.
Literati Juniper
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Re: Literati Juniper
Interesting plant.
Shame we can't see the before shots.
I think it will really come to life when those pads puff up.
Shame we can't see the before shots.
I think it will really come to life when those pads puff up.
One of the fabulous things about growing bonsai is as you get old and decrepit your trees get old and beautiful
