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Juniper 1: Purchased March 2023, slip-potted, fertilized. Using slow release granular and liquid fast release, responding nicely! Tree is growing very well. Pushed out a beautiful flush of growth over Spring, beaming with energy. Soon my bonsai shears arrive for a gentle end-of-spring pruning of some crotch growth to open it up for more oxygen and sunlight to penetrate and allow the Summer flush to come through nicely.
Next year I will likely chop at the halfway point of the descending arch and wire up a branch from the crest of the bend and make it a new leader for an informal upright style.
Juniper 3 (Juniper 2 died by the way, which is very sad because it had extremely interesting structure and shape with great potential and it likely was dying when I purchased and I was several weeks behind the ball): same as Juniper 1, growing nicely and responding well to fertilizer. Spends all day outside in the sunlight and outside all night here in Charlottesville Virginia (zone 7b).
Juniper 4: (most recent addition) is less than 5 years old, purchased two weeks ago from a local nursery, and has great potential with informal upright style and interesting root base and nebari.
