Here is the common juniper I plan to plant on the first rock. I've actually had it for two growing seasons. It actually looks really good when it has just been styled. This year I removed the wire and let it go crazy hoping it would gain strength. It is quite young, but is still a collected common juniper, so I don't want to push it too much to always look it's beast, since I've had mixed luck with them. I want to style it properly as a windswept again next spring, then plant it on the rock the following year along with some native alpine groundcovers. Feedback on this display/styling idea welcome.
i found a couple of pieces of lace rock while hiking up here in the badlands. I have a little communis juniper collected fairly close by. I trained it in a windswept style (I know, not easy to do), and want to plant it in it at some point. The lace rock has a natural hole I can use for drainage. I think with some native dry land plants as underplantings and the windswept juniper, it could look like a little windswept tundra or alpine outcropping. What do you all think? Here's the rock. I'll take some pics of the juniper when I feel like wandering out in the snow.
