Juniper Procumbens- Making It Work

Thomas_J.

Did you ever have a tree that just frustrated you to no end?
This procumbens did just that to me since the day I bought it. I think I must have restyled it two or three times and still wasn't pleased with it until now. I did the first post on it right after I bought it and styled it the first time. GoHere if you want to see it. Anyway the trunk really has a bad reverse taper and every style I gave it just didn't seem to go with it. This time I think I got everything to work together by cleaning it up drastically. Before there was just too much foliage and the tree was out of balance with itself. What it need was to show the contorted branches along with the contorted trunk. Now If I can only figure out why it took me well over a year to see this.

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Thomas J.

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BonsaiMon

Thomas J,

I like the new style much better than the manicured look.

To help with the reverse taper a shari can be gradually worked into the right side. Starting where a recent branch was removed and following up the tree a ways and also goin down to where the reverse begins. What do ya think?

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Thomas_J.

Tom,
Thanks for taking the time to offer some advice. The shari you talk about might certainly be away of distracting the eye away from the reverse taper, but whether I could make it look believable or not, that is to say not so artificial looking, would be another thing. There are some trees I've seen with sharis that look realy good, and others that just didn't do it. At a recent club meeting we had Suthin here for a demo and he did just what your talking about also on a procumbens, and it looked really good. I guess I'l have to study it and see. Thanks Tom.

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Adam_MA

Thomas,
BIG improvement over the first styling of this tree. I think the shari idea might just work to solve that reverse taper issue.

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Adam