My 20yrs Work on a Procumbens Juniper

[Thomas J.]

This was a Home Depot juniper back in 2002 and after many years of pinching and a new pot for it this year, I think we're finished.

 

[ShadyStump]

I think we're finished.

NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Crazy Diamond]

Is all scale foliage? more photos please!!!

 

[DanaWhicker]

Agree. More photos please? That masterpiece must be shared! Please?

 

[Nybonsai12]

Nice topiary

 

[Gustavo Martins]

It would be nice to see the before too

 

[Kadebe]

This was a Home Depot juniper back in 2002 and after many years of pinching and a new pot for it this year, I think we're finished.

Very nice, but I think a tree is never finished... there's always a next stage... next level

 

[Lorax7]

Finished? Nah, there’s always something that can be done to take it to the next level. For this particular tree, if it was mine, I’d consider revealing more of the trunk from the front of the tree. I’d also think about adding some deadwood features for contrast.

Exhibit it as it is now. Enjoy it now that it has fulfilled the vision you had for it for so many years. Then, when the shine of its current configuration eventually wears off for you and you get a little bored with it, come up a new vision for the next 10 years.

 

[Thomas J.]

Here's a few more pics with the first one being the immediate styling after purchase in 2002. I get a lot of slack for not showing the trunk on this one but as you can see the trunk looks like a bent up hose and being subjected to a pot it's entire bonsai life it hasn't expanded much at all. My biggest mistake was not keeping the tree small in proportion to the trunk but sometimes with so many things going on in life time slips away and before you know it a lot of things get away from you and that includes bonsai.

The second pic is probably where I should have kept it in size, so if you can bear looking at the tree without a massive trunk showing on this one then enjoy.

 

[yashu]

I like it but a lot is lost under all the foliage. It reminds me ever so slightly of a wooly mammoth

 

[defra]

Nice i agree your seccond post seccond picture is way better!
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[TomB]

I think I remember this tree from Gardenweb or IBC back in the early 2000s. You had a few like this if I remember correctly. Excellent sustained work over a long period.

 

[WNC Bonsai]

Nice head of hair but where is the trunk, the branches, and the nebari? I think you need to remove some branches and open up the design to show the structure of the tree.

 

[StPaddy]

I’m impressed. Very cool thanks for sharing. This thread is an inspiration imho.

 

[HamburgerTrain]

Congratulations, you did it! It probably takes a lot of courage to share a personal project you've been working on for 20 yrs. The weight of that decision isn't wasted on me, thanks for sharing it with all of us.

 

[StPaddy]

I like it a lot. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Potawatomi13]

Good accomplishment so far. Love last pot pictured. Where did pot come from please?

 

[Thomas J.]

Good accomplishment so far. Love last pot pictured. Where did pot come from please?

That last pot is a Tokoname pot bought back around 2005 or so from Dallas Bonsai which is no longer around.

 

[qwerty Bonsai]

That last pot is a Tokoname pot bought back around 2005 or so from Dallas Bonsai which is no longer around.

I also like the "version" in tokoname pot better, though like them all.

When you did the first styling in 2002, how many years of experience you already have then?

 

[Paradox]

Very nice progression.
Congrats