Shohin Juniper Horizontalis

[jasonmcchristian]

Juniper Horizontalis progression from purchase in late fall of 2023 to first bonsai pot 03/2025. Pot by Linda Ippel pottery.

 

[Shibui]

I like what you've achieved with this.
You have not asked for comment but I guess anyone that posts expects some feedback.
One thing I noticed in the final photo was what appears to be bulges from wire marks just below the big bend in the trunk. maybe it has been rewired but I would have tried to avoid wiring in the same marks which can make a small problem much worse. It that's the original wire on the trunk I would recommend getting it off ASAP, before the trunk swallows that wire.
The other comment is the small, upright branch on the right of the trunk in the final picture. In my opinion it's not necessary and your design would flow better without it.

As always, just some well meant observations. Feel free to take notice or not.

 

[AshleyMammal]

I’d echo @Shibui sentiments. To my eyes, from a small photo on a phone screen, it looks like a wire bulge but to me it looks like it’s been rewired in the same wire mark from previous wire. It looks fairly loose (to me) at the minute so I’d just keep an eye on it for now.

However, and as Shibu said, that small upright branch to the right disrupts flow - I’d go further than that and suggest that much of the lower growth is getting in the way of the trunk line view and/or growing in the inside of a bend. I’d get rid of everything below the big bend to improve visual flow.

The caveat to that being that the main trunk lacks a bit of taper, to improve that you’d have to keep the low growth for 5-10 years (give or take!) to grow out as sacrifice branches to fatten up the trunk base but that’ll mean a much bigger pot and managing too growth whilst sacrifices get unrestricted growth which won’t look pretty!

Sorry if the above sounds negative, it’s not meant to be, it was just a thought splurge that I do with all my own trees and any other tree I see