rockm

"I'm not so quick to say never,there have been lots of "nevers" and "cant's" that have become yes"

This is a primary reason why people lose trees. They take the "no" as a challenge to their "can do" attitude and proceed from there, simply to prove THEY can do it. That can be a fine thing --when the only thing you're testing is yourself.

With bonsai, you are not testing yourself so much. You are testing another living thing that doesn't really care about your "can do" attitude or your ego. It only needs what it needs. In the vast vast VAST majority of cases (notwithstanding articles written and posted on bonsai vendor's websites), junipers can't stand up to indoor treatment by most long time bonsai people, much less a beginner's initial stumblings into care (I've done my share of stumbling, so don't get upset with me ;-)).

It takes a particularly gifted and green-thumbed person to be able to keep a juniper bonsai indoors for more than a couple of years. It takes an extraordinarily gifted person to keep one (and keep it healthy and vibrant in doing so) for more than five. Talk to us about how to keep junipers indoors only after you've done it for more than three or four years and the tree actually looks like a bonsai, not a sickly stick with tufts of yellowing foliage on it.