Prince of Wales juniper

[Jarath]

New purchase at Lowe's for 5 usd. I started trimming tree and ready to wire it. Can I get some opinions on style and directions? This is a practice tree before I destroy my large cascading juniper I posted earlier.

 

[Jarath]

Obviously, I have somewhat of a design for this juniper in my mind. Windswept or semi cascade.

 

[Jarath]

I am anxious to hear from Sorce.

 

[sorce]

This is a practice tree before I destroy my large cascading juniper I posted earlier.

Jarath...please....please....please......

Do not destroy that tree.

There.

Lol

Sorce

 

[sorce]

Any beforefore's ,?

Wire it up.....

Maybe like 17-23 more too!

Before tackling that biggun....

It can't hurt!

And don't let that son of a Bitch squirrel get it!

Chatty post Wire!

Sorce

 

[Jarath]

Hence the word practice. I just sit back and dream over that tree.

 

[Jarath]

I have 5 more junipers I picked up, 3 parsoni and 2 shore junipers

 

[jkl2]

Before you "pick up" any more trees, sit and look at the ones you have. Does any one of then cry out to you that "I want to be a bonsai!"? The one you pictured certainly does not -- to me, at least. If it (or another -- unpictured) does call out to you, can you explain why and how to us?

I know there are folks here that insist you can learn bonsai from any old stick in a pot, but it seems that when you are spending money on a plant (even a small amount) you should look for something that would help making a bonsai a BIT easier on yourself.

My thoughts -- said here more than once, I think.

 

[Tentakelaertje]

Check out Ken To, he makes great bonsai from stuff like this.

I know there are folks here that insist you can learn bonsai from any old stick in a pot, but it seems that when you are spending money on a plant (even a small amount) you should look for something that would help making a bonsai a BIT easier on yourself.

Well jkl2 is hella right on this one!

Story time!

Last year I bought a €10 juniper from a commercial garden center chain in the Netherlands for a bonsai workshop, while the guy who hosted the workshop had offered me junipers 10x as pretty for €30. However, in my foolishness I decided to buy the €10 one instead of the €30 one, because 'whacking out this one is €20 cheaper'.
Now it's still alive and kickin' (praise da lord) and quite pretty also, but not as pretty as the €30 one might have been..

Moral of the story: potential is priority 1, price priority not-one.

 

[sorce]

might have been..

Damn Tent....you fully had me till then.

Sorce