House Money Junipers

[Hartinez]

House money tree. Here’s one I may have gone a little hard on, but with proper winter after care it should make it just fine. We’ll see. I do really like the result of the styling. $12 tree at my local wholesale nursery.

 

[Tele]

Nice work. I have 2 semi mutilated junipers (3 EUR each) and 1 died. Learned the pot was too small and I cut back too hard.
Next I bought 3 nana´s. (10 EUR each)
1. I removed the loose soil around the roots and I put it up (only leader) and put it back in the nursery pot
2. I removed a tiny bit of foliage, didn´t touch roots and wired it up (only leader).
3. I did nothing.
I´ll be repotting next spring and I´ll see what works best. I do not mind buying an expensive (pe) bonsai variety but I need skills first.

 

[Shogun610]

House money tree. Here’s one I may have gone a little hard on, but with proper winter after care it should make it just fine. We’ll see. I do really like the result of the styling. $12 tree at my local wholesale nursery.
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Wholesale nursery’s are great

 

[James W.]

House money!
I like the practice of working cheap material hard to see what you can do with it but I didn't have a term for it. People have a tendency to comment negatively when someone, especially a newbie, takes a piece of low value stock and practices on it. Now I have a name for it. and I can blame it on @Hartinez.
Thanks for showing us what a master could do.

 

[Hartinez]

House money!
I like the practice of working cheap material hard to see what you can do with it but I didn't have a term for it. People have a tendency to comment negatively when someone, especially a newbie, takes a piece of low value stock and practices on it. Now I have a name for it. and I can blame it on @Hartinez.
Thanks for showing us what a master could do.

I thought the phrase was very fitting also! And thanks for the kind words, but a master I am not. I am def getting better, but am a ways off in that assessment.

 

[Hartinez]

gave this one to my dad. I’ll repot it for him next spring.

 

[PonderingSage:]

Here is one l played around with yesterday.
I think your right about more practice on material like this.
In teaching we call it low floor, high ceiling.

And l definitely do not mess up this one …

(Ps sage is looking good after your advice to cut back the flowering extensions)

 

[Hartinez]

House money junis lookin good. No dieback as of yet and only growth at all the tips. A little protection over winter and some new pots and these will be lookin

This is my fave





Some of these need quite a bit more detail wire as the foliage pushes.

 

[Hartinez]

This one I didn’t share initially as I was trying something completely different. There are several things I would have done differently from the get go. Inspired by some design work of Sam Tan of several of his monteza cypress. I would have created the jins much differently had I had the chance to it all over. Could still be something really cool with time. Either way, fun to practice something different on a 15 dollar purchase.

 

[Hartinez]

 

[Hartinez]

Repotted most of them. Looking good across the board. Once they settle into their pots I’ll be able to address the live veins and jins more and restyle and dial in the pads.

Sabina


Sabina - 2 potential fronts with this one



2 little chinensis


And a little sabina - back side of this one also looks good - @Colorado pot!

 

[Hartinez]

 

[Hartinez]

Still going as far away from MY normal as possible with this tree. I really wish I would have kept more of the original branching for more wispy Jin work. Not entirely sure the foliage will ever cooperate fully, but it’s fun to play in a different way. And all for a clearance juni. I think I paid $15 bucks for this one?

 

[MaciekA]

I think this might be one of my favorite bnut threads ever. I almost wish we had a "house money" subforum.

 

[Hartinez]

I think this might be one of my favorite bnut threads ever. I almost wish we had a "house money" subforum.

Hahah. Thanks man. A forum may be a touch much. But if your playing with house money junipers post em here!

 

[ZombieNick]

Okay fine, I guess I'll work these green mound junipers I got for $5 I haven't had the heart to throw out...

Good work @Hartinez, fun thread!

 

[Hartinez]

Okay fine, I guess I'll work these green mound junipers I got for $5 I haven't had the heart to throw out...

Good work @Hartinez, fun thread!

Work em HARD. Practice your wiring skills all the way to the tips.

 

[Hartinez]

I think I may be able to get this foliage much tighter.

 

[Hartinez]

Old gold, juniper, looking better than It probably should. I quite like this tree structure actually and while several of these other junipers will be sold I think I’m going to keep this one. Should be interesting if I can get this foliage to tighten up.

 

[Eckhoffw]

One of my ‘house money’ Sabina’s in the works. Just removed initial wiring as it was biting. put back 1 new wire. I’m Not sure where to go with it next.