rocky mountain juniper

I jumped into deep water getting a tree of this quality for the first time. I think this rocky mountain juniper may have been trained once but hasn't been touched much for several years. First two pics are pretty much the only front options I see, being a very wide and planar tree. I went with...

Hi guys, found this on the deadwood of my juniper. The brown/copper-looking dots on the wet deadwood. Don't know what this is. Is it a borer? Seemed to appear overnight after a hot humid day. I picked it off with my fingers with no problem. Sprayed with some insecticide. Does anyone know...

I am not sure if I have shared this progression here or not. I bought this Rocky Mountain Juniper in 2018. August 2018 I cleaned it up and took it to a workshop with Naoki Maeoka the same year. We discussed the angle and direction of the future tree. I wired a cut a few things off and wired...