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Seedling
I jumped into deep water getting a tree of this quality for the first time.
I think this rocky mountain juniper may have been trained once but hasn't been touched much for several years. First two pics are pretty much the only front options I see, being a very wide and planar tree. I went with the deadwood heavy side.
After examining this tree for a bit I realized it's basically two small literati trees; the live growth is highlighted in pic 3. The foliage is growing way above the branch structure so I thought to bring everything down. I also decided the right trunk needed to be pulled left-down to compact the composition a bit.
Pic 4 is initial wiring, admittedly not looking great yet. I tried to remove as little as possible since these are fairly sparse trees by nature. Pic 5 is my vision for pad development, pushing new growth leftward to flow with the deadwood movement. The T-shirt is covering a long, heavily-foliated branch that I plan to reduce/jin as my other branches gain strength.
Questions:
How does juvenile foliage work? If I prune one area hard will all the tree's foliage revert to juvenile, or does it just go juvenile only where it was directly cut? I already have a lot of needle foliage especially on the left trunk and I want to avoid getting more.
Should I be treating this as one tree or as two regarding my styling? I'm stumbling a bit on decisions that seem to turn on whether I am trying to harmonize one trunk with itself vs. the whole tree.
Is there anything obvious I missed that would help my design or approach here? I really want to maximize the potential of this tree.
Thanks for looking !
I think this rocky mountain juniper may have been trained once but hasn't been touched much for several years. First two pics are pretty much the only front options I see, being a very wide and planar tree. I went with the deadwood heavy side.
After examining this tree for a bit I realized it's basically two small literati trees; the live growth is highlighted in pic 3. The foliage is growing way above the branch structure so I thought to bring everything down. I also decided the right trunk needed to be pulled left-down to compact the composition a bit.
Pic 4 is initial wiring, admittedly not looking great yet. I tried to remove as little as possible since these are fairly sparse trees by nature. Pic 5 is my vision for pad development, pushing new growth leftward to flow with the deadwood movement. The T-shirt is covering a long, heavily-foliated branch that I plan to reduce/jin as my other branches gain strength.
Questions:
How does juvenile foliage work? If I prune one area hard will all the tree's foliage revert to juvenile, or does it just go juvenile only where it was directly cut? I already have a lot of needle foliage especially on the left trunk and I want to avoid getting more.
Should I be treating this as one tree or as two regarding my styling? I'm stumbling a bit on decisions that seem to turn on whether I am trying to harmonize one trunk with itself vs. the whole tree.
Is there anything obvious I missed that would help my design or approach here? I really want to maximize the potential of this tree.
Thanks for looking !
