What Juniper Are These?

[roberthu]

These are planted at the entrance at my neighborhood. Are they Shimpaku? Thinking about taking a few cutting next year.

 

[Dav4]

It's hard to tell without better pictures taken from a closer position but I suspect those are Hollywood junipers, a J. chinensis cultivar that is planted all over the metro area. https://selectree.calpoly.edu/tree-detail/juniperus-chinensis-torulosa
They are fast growing and can make decent, but necessarily larger bonsai subjects.
Here's one I worked for a while before selling to another enthusiast... https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/my-hollywood-juniper.4550/

 

[Bonsai Nut]

I agree with @Dav4 . They are recently planted, so they are just starting to fill in and become "tortured" looking.

I know they also sell them here in NoCar under their original name J. chinensis 'Kaizuka'. They are the largest J. chinensis cultivar (that I am aware of). They are definitely not shrubs - and get quite large. The interesting growth pattern is natural and does not require shaping or pruning to establish.

http://plants.newgarden.com/12190005/Plant/11882/Kaizuka_Juniper

 

[sorce]

Take a few cuttings now!

Sorce

 

[roberthu]

Take a few cuttings now!

Sorce

Let me find my mask

 

[roberthu]

It's hard to tell without better pictures taken from a closer position but I suspect those are Hollywood junipers, a J. chinensis cultivar that is planted all over the metro area. https://selectree.calpoly.edu/tree-detail/juniperus-chinensis-torulosa
They are fast growing and can make decent, but necessarily larger bonsai subjects.
Here's one I worked for a while before selling to another enthusiast... https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/my-hollywood-juniper.4550/

Awesome! Thanks a lot. Nice to know they are adapted to the climate here.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Torulosa are the fastest growing juniper I’m aware of. I always thought it would be cool to twist up some trunks, grow them out for a few years, and then replace the foliage with Itoigawa.

 

[Bonsai Nut]

I always thought it would be cool to twist up some trunks, grow them out for a few years, and then replace the foliage with Itoigawa.

No twisting required. They naturally grow twisted trunks. Check out this screen grab from a tree across the street from the Anaheim Convention center (via Google street view) Lots of amazing trees in landscape around SoCal that look like they're about to be thrown in the trash...

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

No twisting required. They naturally grow twisted trunks. Check out this screen grab from a tree across the street from the Anaheim Convention center (via Google street view) Lots of amazing trees in landscape around SoCal that look like they're about to be thrown in the trash...

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In the south, they grow like telephone poles...or a saguaro cactus.