I acquired this tree 1,5 years ago at an auction together with 11 other trees. 3 trees per batch, I bid on 4 batches, got all 4 of them. That wasn’t the plan…

Anyway, one of the trees was this Juniperus Chinensis with 3 thick straight trunks or branches. I didn’t really knew what to do with it so I tried to sell it a few times but nobody wanted it apparently. I took it to several workshops with different teachers but all of them ignored the tree and quickly moved on to another tree that I brought.

So yesterday, Easter Sunday, lockdown crap, I got out the scissors, wire and a strong Belgian beer and started torturing the Chinese Juniper.

Unstyled, after 1,5 years of only pruningthe tips.

2,5 hours later. Don’t worry, that’s not the same beer 😉

One of the trunks (or big branches as you prefer) was actually a large stump with some small branches on it. I jinned it partially and turned it in to the first branch.

Big stump jinned and one of the smaller branches became the new leading branch.

The result. Not quite there but a decent start IMO.

Since I can’t throw away anything that has a 0,01% chance of becoming usuable material one day I took most of what I cut off and used it for cuttings.

Maybe I’ll have some nice rock plantings in a few years 🙂