I bought this collected California Juniper in January 2005 at the Collection North benefit sale at the Lake Merritt garden center in Oakland. In early 2006 Boon grafted some Kishu shimpaku scions onto it for me because the native foliage was really coarse and was also not in a place that made sense for the design of the tree. You can see the two grafts that took in the first photo, they're the small green bits near the large jin.
At the time I lived in San Francisco and the grafts grew very slowly. Three years later they were still not big enough to wire. In April 2010 I moved to SoCal and found that CA junipers really like the heat in SoCal. It grew more in one season than it had in the previous three combined and I was able to wire it in the fall. One more growing season filled out the foliage and I was able to show it this January. Finished height is about 23 inches.
Cheers,
Eric
