Show me your favourite Junipers

[Juanmi]

I've never been a Juniper guy, but recently I started liking them more and more.

So I bought 2 Itoigawa Junipers seedlings. So, while I wait for them to arrive, I might look for some inspiration.

Please show me your favourite Junipers (no need to be yours) if possible on the shohin size spectrum

 

[Gabler]

Post in thread 'My Shohin Collection ....'

Sep 2, 2015

Mikawa blackpine, Goji Berry, Burtt Davii, Hawthorne, Grafted Itoigawa juniper

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[Juanmi]

Post in thread 'My Shohin Collection ....'

Sep 2, 2015

Mikawa blackpine, Goji Berry, Burtt Davii, Hawthorne, Grafted Itoigawa juniper

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Damn... I'm speechless, what a collection!
Thanks for sharing, I like those Junipers.

 

[WavyGaby]

I really liked these shohin size Junipers from Bjorns a few years back. I think one or both were/are his dads.

I want to recreate this one. It is a simple multi trunk. It stuck with me how a well balanced, properly scaled tree without anything crazy is really enjoyable, too.

 

[WavyGaby]

Here is another one I would like to mimic

 

[Juanmi]

Here is another one I would like to mimic
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Geez, good luck! It looks amazing, but that looks like a lot of work.

I gravitate more towards simplier designs, like the two you showed before, those are dope too.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Here is another one I would like to mimic

This one belongs to a local buddy now.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Here are a few of mine.
First Itoigawa came from Bjorn, I think it was part of the same batch as the twisted one in post #4:

Second is Shimpaku shohin from an air layer:

My Shimpaku from a few years ago, it’s been allowed to grow for the last couple years, so it isn’t as tidy as it looks in this shot:

 

[snowman04]

Working on this one for a few years...

 

[Cruiser]

In 2014 while working on a fire crew based in Sequoia National Park, I “discovered” a gigantic candelabra-top sierra juniper somewhere near the parking lot at Mineral King. I couldn’t get an accurate measurement but I swear it had to have been at least 60 feet tall with 7 or 8 dead tops. It was such a beast. Everyone thought it was a dwarfed sequoia. They all thought I was crazy for geeking out over it, but this thing was insane I tell you.

Anyway, I never got a picture of it and haven’t returned since. I’ve tried to find the tree in people’s travel photos and with street view, but to no avail. I hope to see it again one day.

 

[TomP]

Of course there is Goshin

 

[Shibui]

Here's a few small ones from the Shibui Bonsai collection.
You can probably gather I prefer twisted trunks and dead wood features on juniper bonsai.



This one is a bit bigger. Shimpaku foliage grafted onto another juniper trunk.

 

[Shamino]

Potted with Colin Lewis at BonsaiWest some 20 years ago...

 

[Juanmi]

Potted with Colin Lewis at BonsaiWest some 20 years ago...

Gorgeous! Maybe I'll go for a literati style, similar to this one, and a more compact, twisted trunk for the second one.