I went to my parents place on Brännö (small island outside of Gothenburg) to celebrate Easter. I stumbled upon this juniper and asked politely if I could have it. The next day was 12 hours of hard work. Enjoy ☺️

As usual I forgot to take a proper before-photo. Here I have already taken two big branches off.

It was growing between rocks but it didn’t give us as much problem as it could have. (I say “us” because I had help with this one).

The two big branches that came off. Probably 50% of the foliage. Scary.

This stub is where the biggest branch was cut. I decided I didn’t need it, not even as a jin. We’ll I could have made a cool jin with it but I needed to make the tree smaller to be able to transport it. The stub broke off during the dig and separated a lot of roots. Scary.

I ended up cutting away some of the roots attached to the separated stub/branch.

Planning how to get it into the pot.

Yeah the pot was a bit to small for the big root ball. I should have known.

Eventually we got it in.

I added just one wire to hold the trunk. It was standing steady in the pot.

A bag of kittydama, diatomite. topped off with the last bag of kittydama and ready for the ground.

A lot of rocks in the lawn. This took me a while.

Almost done. I’ll get some pine bark to cover the pot with. I chose to put it in the ground on recommendation from a fellow bonsai enthusiast. This way it won’t need extra watering or winter protection.