Tommykeolle
Yamadori
As the title openly states I am very new. I have decided to make the plunge and ruin/kill/try to manipulate and keep alive a nursery stock juniper.
A local nursery has dozens of potted junipers on sale, most pretty haggard without a single - single trunk. (At least in the 15-20 I looked through) This was originally planted with the main trunk at about a *15 from the potting mix. I did not re pot. I basically slip potted back into the original container after adding some very coarse soil at the bottom of the pot and aerating the roots just a little. (In Hopes of keeping it alive after my first attempts of styling) it looked like it was in a slightly smaller pot before it's current pot was filled with soil and it was just plopped in there.
I've left some smaller growth alone as I dont know if I could/should wire. I also left the two very small sprouts coming off of the main trunk (between the middle and bottom pads) alone of the same reason wondering if maybe with some age one of the two could be wired for a back branch or to bring some "weight" to the left. Or possibly return it to something closer to its original potting angle and pot with a rock of some type to balance it out.
Anyway! Have at it.
Beer for scale....as that seems to be a trend, that will be the only thing I'm certain i got right!
A local nursery has dozens of potted junipers on sale, most pretty haggard without a single - single trunk. (At least in the 15-20 I looked through) This was originally planted with the main trunk at about a *15 from the potting mix. I did not re pot. I basically slip potted back into the original container after adding some very coarse soil at the bottom of the pot and aerating the roots just a little. (In Hopes of keeping it alive after my first attempts of styling) it looked like it was in a slightly smaller pot before it's current pot was filled with soil and it was just plopped in there.
I've left some smaller growth alone as I dont know if I could/should wire. I also left the two very small sprouts coming off of the main trunk (between the middle and bottom pads) alone of the same reason wondering if maybe with some age one of the two could be wired for a back branch or to bring some "weight" to the left. Or possibly return it to something closer to its original potting angle and pot with a rock of some type to balance it out.
Anyway! Have at it.
Beer for scale....as that seems to be a trend, that will be the only thing I'm certain i got right!