A couple of junipers

[Newbie.mia]

Hi all,
It's been a while since I posted due to changing jobs and cities so I thought I would share a couple of trees from my collection. I have now been doing bonsai for 14 months and my collection consists mainly of conifers. The first tree I will share is a shore juniper which I have been working with for 12 months, it's being styled as a literati and was mainly an experiment to see just how far I could take the bends.

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This was how it was at purchase.

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After first styling.

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6 months down the track.

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2weeks ago in its first training pot to gradually reduce the root mass.
It is now popping new buds like crazy.
My second tree I have been working with since May and will be going into a training pot when I find a suitable one

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As a 15-20 year old stock tree from a bonsai nursery

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After pruning and wiring almost every branch excluding branches that were a little weak.
Let me know what you think. Mia

[Newbie.mia]

I don't know why but it has jumbled the pics around on me oops

[kcpoole]

I think thay are excellent.
for someone in the game for 14 moths to get that amount of bravery to bend like that is awesome

Time will improve them now

Ken

[Andrew Legg]

You're off to a good start Mia! Stick with it!

[Newbie.mia]

Thanks guys