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I concur Arnold, thank you. Any thoughts on styling? -Michael

Your tree looks like it has potential for a nice cascade style bonsai.

A few more photos of the tree, it's foliage and berries.

As a general systemic fungicide, propaconazole has been my go-to in treating fungal infections in palms, orchids, bromeliads and other plants so I figured it might work to prevent a fungal infection in a juniper as well. I will take your recommendations and try the safer options you mention...

Thank you Wires_Guy_wires, the above provides me with a lot of helpful information on junipers in particular, which is exactly what I am looking for. I am going to give my tree a prophylactic fungicide (propaconazole) treatment today with some fish emulsion to give it a gentle boost. I assume...

In that case I will erect a bench in full sun by the lake (the only truly all-day, full-sun location I have in my grandma's yard, I live in an apartment) and put it there today, anchor the pot in place because it gets windy and let my juniper recover there. I have read before that in fresh...

Bump... If this is recommended, I would like to do this work tomorrow. Thank you in advance. -Michael

After removing 2/3 of the root system during repotting, should I remove some of the top growth to balance things out or would it be better to leave the tree alone this year and let it recover in the shade for a couple weeks(without removing any growth)?

When I resided in Pennsylvania, I had the same issue with Akadama; it turned to VERY finely particled clay and dust after one season. The problem was, more than once I thought I had ordered (my mom ordered it for me once too) hard-fired Double Red Line Akadama and it was not actually the...

Thank you for the input on substrate Wires_Guy_wires. Yeah, I was going to order a bag of hard-fired Akadama but cheaped out. I will make sure to repot this tree in February-ish of 2023 so the Vermiculite hopefully won't have time to break down. I switched from Perlite to Vermiculite last...

Two more photos as I worked with the root ball...

Good evening all, I haven't posted in a couple years. I was living in SE Pennsylvania but I relocated back to the Orlando area in 2019. I have a couple tropical bonsai in desperate need of work but when I visited a local nursery a couple weeks ago, Green's Nursery, they had some nice juniper...

There is at least one vendor online that has several (like 5-10) unusual A. buergerianum varieties. Let me to find them and I post the sources.

This actually turned out to be an excellent year for fall color in this part of SE PA. Later than the long term norm, yes, but that seems to be becoming the new norm(?).

We have had chilly fall weather now for almost 3 weeks but no freeze and it looks like we may make it to the second week of November without one, so everything is staying put for the foreseeable future. I am going to shoot for Thanksgiving.

Some decent fall color showing up here.

Wow! I love the color on that little trident!

Rest in peace Grimmy. I appreciate your advice. It was really good knowing you.

This might be applicable. For five years (when I moved to PA I had no room to bring it with me so I am sure it just died at my dad's house) I successfully kept the temperate evergreen species Ephedra sinica. It needs a cold winter dormancy and I lived in Orlando, so I kept it in the...

Amur maple might barely survive.

Great, you should do fine with stuff like trident maple, Japanese maple and Japanese black pine. What do you intend to keep?

Even though Johannesburg's extreme lows aren't that low, they get four months straight with low temperatures of 45F or less. I would predict many deciduous species would and must already thrive there.

Wiki says Johannesburg's lowest temperature in an average year is 26.4F (-3.1C). If we are talking USDA hardiness zones, this would be a zone 9. Does your location typically have any below freezing nights in the winter? On the USDA scale, zone 14 would mean a location that doesn't average a...

I watered when the soil (akadama) was just barely moist and the tree wintered beautifully for me in Orlando. They just needed to get enough chill hours. As a side note, I would shade Japanese maples there in the Keys.