Yamadori Juniperus Communis Repotting

riprap

Thanks for a wonderfully informative posting. Best of luck with this challenging piece of material -- although it looks like you came through the most critical period just fine. I find myself wondering whether the future of this plant is not in a vertical composition -- a cascade with a vertical header. The tree rotated 90 degrees from the horizontal either to the right or the left of its attitude in the last picture. Obviously, I can't tell much about the branch arrangement from the photos, but I see no reason why it wouldn't be technically feasible. Am I way off base?

Thanks,

Barry

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Ian Young

Thanks Guys,

Adam, I haven't measured it it bo honest. I try that later. It isn't a tall tree. I was lucky to find it. A;; I could see was a little foliage poking out of some heather. It was collected three years ago. I don't repot until the foliage is that lush colour.

Barry,
You are not off base at all. When I was taking the photos between washing out the old soil I was looking for ideas in the tree. I hadn't seen the other side in three years and was amazed by what I'd missed. Your cascade idea was one of the options I saw although it was more a semi cascade. I saw loads of options in fact. Nearly all from the other side that had been hidden from me. Once we got it potted up we spun it around some looking for more. The whole repotting from start to finish took 3 1/2 hours.

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Ian
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Jonny D

HI Ian, I've been away recently so its taking me some time to go through what i've missed and i think that this has great posibilities , one question, where abouts was it collected from?

cheers jonny.

jeremy_norbury

Ian.

Great material - and a nice report. I've seen something very similar to this locally and will have a go now.

Did you keep it in grit for the whole period - including the last photos?

And, yes, I did appreciate the Belfast box. Nice touch.

Jerry

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heymikey(deceased)

Ian, Congratulations on you successful collection and rehabilitation of the juniper; it looks to be putting on nice new growth. I don't know if you're still looking for styling suggestions but i created a sketch based on rotating the trunk about 30 degrees. The result is sort-of a semi-cascade as you observed when looking at it. heymikey

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riprap

On the cascade idea, there was an article in Bonsai Today No. 49, pp. 44-54, that shows a strong rotation to create the cascade. The subject there is a 5-needle pine but the principle is the same. (I remember another example with a black pine in the same magazine, but can't lay my hands on it now.)

DavidN

That is great material to work. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with in a years time.

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Ian Young

Thanks Folks, it's great to get feedback.

Jonny, It came from south west Ireland.

Jerry, Yes, grit the whole time and it's back into grit again. Next time round I'll add a small amout of akadama.

Heymikey, nice one. I haven't even had time to try a virtual yet. I'm saving anything to do with this tree for my club's website. I'll save a copy of your virtual.

Barry, Did you just recall that article from memory! Boy I thought I looked though old mags a lot. Guess you're worse than me ;-) I looked it up. Example two the final pic on page 54 was the better of the two. Thanks for pointing it out.

David, I plan to take it slow with this one. I'm going to spend a lot of time looking at it. Probably all I'll do next year is thin it out to encourage back budding on the branches I plan to keep. I'll be sure to share each step with you lot :-)

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Ian
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GaryS

Nice repot Ian!

I'd go for the low and scragley look myself, almost like a forest.

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