How large?

[M. Frary]

How large will a shimpaku juniper get? And are they ever used as landscape shrubs? I ask because I was moving a piece of equipment the other day and saw this. Actually there is 4 of them and they're huge. I'm going back to get a good look at them and if the owner is pliable I'll be making an offer.
The color looks right and the foliage looks right but I was going by in a skidder with my boss behind me so I couldn't stop.

 

[wireme]

Ha! Bonsai nuts, bouncing by in a skidder and taking pics of shrubs!

No clue Here re: your question but she sure is dense. Air layers of some thick branches?

 

[Smoke]

Looks like pfitzer juniper?

 

[Neli]

I have seen them 3m tall.

 

[sorce]

M.F.Frary.

Lo...mfing l.

I would offer to cut out the dead section and clean it up/thin it out alittle for them...in exchange for an airlayer or 2. Or more.

Seems so dense its unlikely to have any low branches if you dig it. Short one of the outer ones.

Looks like a nice project.

Good luck.

Sorce

 

[jk_lewis]

Dirr says 50-60 inches tall with 15-20 inch spread.

 

[M. Frary]

Probably not shimpaku if they only spread 20 inches. These are like 8 feet wide.

 

[Dav4]

The shimpakus I have seen as nursery material have always been multi trunked and spreading in habit, with more width then height.

 

[larlamonde]

How large will a shimpaku juniper get? And are they ever used as landscape shrubs? I ask because I was moving a piece of equipment the other day and saw this. Actually there is 4 of them and they're huge. I'm going back to get a good look at them and if the owner is pliable I'll be making an offer.
The color looks right and the foliage looks right but I was going by in a skidder with my boss behind me so I couldn't stop.

Wow Mike! I've never seen anything like that. That is one or four big junipers.

 

[Paradox]

Looks like pfitzer juniper?

Pftizer is definately the most shimpaku like cultivar I have seen in nursery stock junipers in terms of foliage. I wouldnt be surprised if that is what they are but its hard to tell from the that photo.

 

[M. Frary]

Wow Mike! I've never seen anything like that. That is one or four big junipers.

Its just one. All four take up a half of the yard.

 

[M. Frary]

I wasn't thinking air layers. No. I want the whole thing. You see I know a guy with a tree spade. I used to run one and with a little roping up of branches I believe it can be done. In the spring that is. I'm going over this weekend to talk to the guy to see if we can make a deal.

 

[sorce]

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You are fully required to shoot a video.

Have you seen the base?

Its one trunk!?

Frary.Frary...

 

[M. Frary]

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You are fully required to shoot a video.

Have you seen the base?

Its one trunk!?

Frary.Frary...

Nope. But I plan on taking a drive down there to talk to the person who lives there and ask if I can at least look at them and go from there. Hopefully they want them out. A couple got burned over the winter so maybe after another winter like last they will look kind of ragged.
I'm hoping to see one large single trunk. I'll probably find that limbs have ground layered themselves also. In that case if I can get one of these or all of them I can part it out right on the spot. Cutting off limbs where they go into the ground then dig the limbs up and bucket them up. I imagine I would be there a while doing this work.
And do you really want to see a video of a large man sweating his ass off digging up a tree? Of course you do don't you? Who wouldn't? We'll have to see about one.

 

[sorce]

Helmet cam from the seat of the spade...

And as long as the sweaty man has no pink thong.!

Sorce

 

[KennedyMarx]

Have you guys seen shimpaku used as landscaping material? I haven't seen it outside of specialized bonsai retailers. All the ones I've seen around here are 'Sea Green,' 'Old Gold,' and 'Pfitzeriana.' I figured some of those light be more local indiana cultivars like the Florida guys have those Parsonii.

Good luck collecting this, Frary! I hope it makes it.

 

[Paradox]

Have you guys seen shimpaku used as landscaping material? I haven't seen it outside of specialized bonsai retailers. All the ones I've seen around here are 'Sea Green,' 'Old Gold,' and 'Pfitzeriana.' I figured some of those light be more local indiana cultivars like the Florida guys have those Parsonii.

I havent. The closest looking cultivar Ive seen so far is Blue Pfitzer.

 

[M. Frary]

Have you guys seen shimpaku used as landscaping material? I haven't seen it outside of specialized bonsai retailers. All the ones I've seen around here are 'Sea Green,' 'Old Gold,' and 'Pfitzeriana.' I figured some of those light be more local indiana cultivars like the Florida guys have those Parsonii.

Good luck collecting this, Frary! I hope it makes it.

I asked in the original thread if they were ever used as landscape shrubs because if they were sometime in the distant past it may be that these are shimpaku. If not the foliage is tight enough to take a good hard look at.
As for pink thongs Sorce I hate to say it but going commando is the way I roll. Lingrere is Smokes thing.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

For what it is worth, botanically
both Shimpaku and Pfitzer are cultivars of Juniperus chinensis.

"Blaupunkt" is an old cultivar of the Pfitzer type chinensis that has been used a lot in landscaping. According to Colin Lewis, the foliage can get pretty tight, though not as neat and orderly as 'Itogawa' or other Shimpaku types.

And as landscape plants the Pfitzer can get pretty big, and wide spreading given enough decades. Those in the ground have to be at least 50 years old or more.

 

[fore]

A lot of Old Gold variety here in Chicago. I collected one this spring that's doing great. I do plan on grafting this at some point.