I had a decent Nana for 8 years that I lost four years ago. I literally " lost " it, i am a contractor and live in Ohio but I also live 5-6 months in Florida working with various contractors during the bad weather of the winter months. I usually take my Bonsai with me in my RV when I travel down south or to some jobsite I may be on for a month or so during the summer. I had several newer plants and no room so i set this on the back of my 1 ton flatbed truck and placed several things around it to hold it in place. At the first stop after driving 300 miles I noticed my 13 hp wheeled blower had rolled around as I did not secure it and also seen the plant was gone, I assume the blower knocked it out along the road.This particular Nana I had bought and was an upright plant about 32 inches tall with an amazing twist to the trunk which was about two inches thick almost all the way up to the top. It looked like someone had turned the trunk almost 80 degrees at some point. I found it in a garden center called Franks for $14. I had removed the growth from the right side of the tree and jinned it to the apex following the curve from about four inches above the pot to where i had shortened the apex to 26 inches tall, and it had thickened nicely to about 3 1/2 inches up to 14 inches up the trunk! It actually tried a few times to bud out of the jinned part, which I have never had happen before or since. These are actually hard to come by , at least in Ohio, but they are good growing plants and look like a pine to me. Over the years I have lost a few plants while transporting them, mostly by having something crush them, twice by having a diesel fuel leak on to them, but this was the only to disappear that I could not lay off to theft. personally I have found all juniper varieties easy to grow and work with.
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