2 more blue rug junipers.

[Eckhoffw]

Two of my first two trees were small blue rub junipers. I enjoyed how flexible the branches are and wired them like crazy. Four years later, they look like they’re on their way out.
Not sure what the sickness is, but they’ve been regularly fertilized. I don’t see any mites or bugs.

Anyways, I was at My favorite nursery clearance section, and picked up two almost identical replacements-

Blue rug #3
Slip potted tightly
Wiring.




Blue rug #4

very fun. Maybe I can take better care of these.

 

[Deleted member 47471]

Two of my first two trees were small blue rub junipers. I enjoyed how flexible the branches are and wired them like crazy. Four years later, they look like they’re on their way out.View attachment 566339View attachment 566340
Not sure what the sickness is, but they’ve been regularly fertilized. I don’t see any mites or bugs.

Anyways, I was at My favorite nursery clearance section, and picked up two almost identical replacements-

Blue rug #3
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Wiring.
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Blue rug #4
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very fun. Maybe I can take better care of these.

wow, really nice! and look at all those berries I like it, good structure and nice shaping/styling you have done here

 

[Deleted member 47471]

We have tons of 3 gallon BRJs at work, but I have yet to pull the trigger on one. They look full-bodied and healthy. I've heard they do not naturally (or easily?) lend themselves to informal uprights but to semi-cascades and cascades. I have one little one (less than a gallon) that I'm going to make as a hanging cliff but those 3 gallons at work are mighty tempting. Yours seem to have good bones for informal uprights (or is it just that past a certain height they are harder to train as informal/upright?)

 

[Hartinez]

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[Eckhoffw]

We have tons of 3 gallon BRJs at work, but I have yet to pull the trigger on one. They look full-bodied and healthy. I've heard they do not naturally (or easily?) lend themselves to informal uprights but to semi-cascades and cascades. I have one little one (less than a gallon) that I'm going to make as a hanging cliff but those 3 gallons at work are mighty tempting. Yours seem to have good bones for informal uprights (or is it just that past a certain height they are harder to train as informal/upright?)

Thanks!
Being the ground huggers that they are, sometimes it’s hard to picture styling them in a more upright way. I will admit I would still be maybe a little overwhelmed at first to take on a big one like a 3 gallon or bigger.

That said they’re so flexible and floppy that manipulation is quite easy. it does take some repeated wiring to hold them upright. They are a lot softer to work with then a procumbens juniper though!

 

[Deleted member 47471]

Thanks!
Being the ground huggers that they are, sometimes it’s hard to picture styling them in a more upright way. I will admit I would still be maybe a little overwhelmed at first to take on a big one like a 3 gallon or bigger.

That said they’re so flexible and floppy that manipulation is quite easy. it does take some repeated wiring to hold them upright. They are a lot softer to work with then a procumbens juniper though!

that makes sense! thx