Yard Junipers

[MadSweatz]

Any advice is welcome. These junipers have been here for a very long time and I want to keep them as healthy as possible. There are three separate plants. Sorry the pictures are kind of messy, it’s been raining here. I’ve just uncovered these in a back yard that was fully over grown in vines.

 

[MadSweatz]

More photos of the other two.

 

[MadSweatz]

The bigger ones I tried to clean up and separate from eachother. Couldn’t see the fence at all when I started.

 

[Crazy Diamond]

What are your goals with those junipers? are you going to keep them as garden trees? are you going to yard-a-dori the smaller Juniperus "Blue star"?

 

[MrFancyPlants]

The foliage on the large ones is way out away from the base of the bushes. Not impossible to make a bonsai, but much more difficult than if there was some growth much further in. Maybe after the trimming some new growth will spring further in, so keep an eye out for that potential, but you may need to wait a year or three for that to develop enough strength so it could be cut back.

 

[James W.]

The (possibly) squamata could be dug next March.
The other three, fertilize them and let them sit. Maybe in a year or two or five something usable will pop down low.

 

[MadSweatz]

The foliage on the large ones is way out away from the base of the bushes. Not impossible to make a bonsai, but much more difficult than if there was some growth much further in. Maybe after the trimming some new growth will spring further in, so keep an eye out for that potential, but you may need to wait a year or three for that to develop enough strength so it could be cut back.

That’s more of the plan. Wish I had gotten a before picture. It was all dead underneath and the top branches had just taken over. So I was hoping with the sunlight now being able to actually track the trunks it might promote something a little more workable. I don’t think these had been trimmed in probably twenty years.

 

[MadSweatz]

What are your goals with those junipers? are you going to keep them as garden trees? are you going to yard-a-dori the smaller Juniperus "Blue star"?

Garden trees for now. Try to just work with them as they are to make them closer to an actual trained tree. Mostly just learning as I go. I’m thankful for all of the comments.