Rescue Blau

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This was barely more than a root cutting, rescued from my co-op garden, after they ripped everything out for a new planting, going on 15 years ago.E063A7EC-114D-4B3C-B227-0465A2CA1CE1.jpeg
 
This one is doing well this growing season, but I have a feeling it will always be a struggle with fungus, until one year it doesn’t make it.
It makes me want to take some cuttings of my Kishu since it never seems to have any issues.IMG_7707.jpeg
 
This Blau is looking feisty in its new pot IMO. A little sign of the dieback but much better than previous years. I might does it with some copper soon.IMG_8607.jpeg
 
If 'blau' refers to the cultivar juniperus chinensis (or media, depending on who you ask) var Blaauw: it's not that. It looks like a horizontalis blue chip or blue rug, sometimes called wiltonii.

Blaauw tends to make puffy foliage immediately, with branchlets extending in four directions, instead of spreading out over a flat plane. The latter is a typical behavior for horizontalis. It would explain the basal dominance too.
 
I think you are right on horizontalis ‘blue chip’ or ‘blue rug’. I thought it might be Sargent juniper previously, but all I can say for sure is that it does have a blueish color which is why I claimed ‘blau’
 
I cleaned up this little guy.. I have an idea for where to go next, but saved some cutback for later when it has recovered.IMG_8773.jpegIMG_8774.jpeg
 
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