Demo on a big Juniper

[ChrisV]

As I mentioned before I had to do a demo on big juniper a week ago.
Pretty fun demo bit short on time though because the tree was rather big. I did have someone to help me wire it however in between the demo I had to discuss trees of the members too and that took a lot of time too.
So this Juniper came from a garden more than 15 years ago.
Only repotted once into the current pot.
It was never styled only cut back a lot to get the foliage closer to the trunk. The heavy pruning caused the tree to push out juvenile foliage....
First picture is when they had heavily pruned it about 1,5 years ago and my friend got it.
After that it pushed out a lot of leggy growth but more than enough foliage to work with.
I cleaned the true a bit and turned and twisted the tree all ways to see the options.
One day before the demo I saw this final option so the trunk had the most movement. It also shows the deadwood and livevein the best way.
On top is a Jin I am not really sure if i cut it or leave it in the future, but for now the plan is repotting next summer and let it grow out the juvenile foliage in time.

About 1,5 years ago after heavy pruning:


Demo time:


Today in the garden I was checking if all went well.

 

[aml1014]

Nice! But I would love to see a better picture of the tree.

Aaron

 

[Vin]

I agree with Aaron. Let's see some better pictures of the fantastic work you've done.

 

[Eric Group]

Wonderful transformation as usual chris, thanks for posting! I third the request for more/ better pics! What a MONSTER!

 

[c54fun]

Very nice.

 

[ChrisV]

Better pictures will follow when the weather gets better here and when I go to my garden again.
Btw sorry I don't have a video no one was filming but i did make the newspaper haha.

 

[Tentakelaertje]

Willem said the tree was as big as you, and he barely exaggerated
Nice work Chris! When will you continue?

 

[ChrisV]

I continue next year, summer repotting and deadwood work and after the summer some more refining.

 

[ChrisV]

Bit late but as promised a better picture of the demotree and my new garden were I'm working hard with my good friend to make it ready for next season and for the trees to come in.
It's still a mud pool however when the plants are planted and when the path is made and some benches and paint all over the place I'm sure it will look great next season.
Today in the rain we started to make a porch and some shelter for the trees.
It's raining like crazy here and without shelter they will stay too wet and I'm not planning on losing any trees this winter due to rot or something.