symbiotic1
Mame
I recently acquired this CA juniper and I've been perplexed as to how to style it. I'm totally new to styling a collected tree of this size, everything I've had so far was nursery grown. So far I've been told I should graft some shimpaku onto it to get it's more dense foliage, but where to graft it is the tough question.
I was also advised to try to pair the form down to one main trunkline and either remove or jin the rest of the branches. What initially drew me to it though was that it looked like a multi-trunk tree and not like several different trees in a forest, so it would be nice to develop that with the grafts, but if an elegant form can be found with a single trunk I'm open to it. Could some of the branches be given more movement through channeling/splitting, etc?
I've posted photos that show it at 8 different angles as I spun it around and some more detail.
I also noticed there is some newly mature foliage growing. I'm guessing that's a good thing and the tree is happy?
What does everyone think? It's coming up on grafting season soon so I'm trying my best to develop a good preliminary vision for the tree so the grafts are placed in the right spots.
I was also advised to try to pair the form down to one main trunkline and either remove or jin the rest of the branches. What initially drew me to it though was that it looked like a multi-trunk tree and not like several different trees in a forest, so it would be nice to develop that with the grafts, but if an elegant form can be found with a single trunk I'm open to it. Could some of the branches be given more movement through channeling/splitting, etc?
I've posted photos that show it at 8 different angles as I spun it around and some more detail.
I also noticed there is some newly mature foliage growing. I'm guessing that's a good thing and the tree is happy?
What does everyone think? It's coming up on grafting season soon so I'm trying my best to develop a good preliminary vision for the tree so the grafts are placed in the right spots.