This is another tree that we worked on yesterday, when I visited my friend Gerry. It’s an Itoigawa Juniper. Gerry has had this tree for some time but has been struggling to find the direction to take it forward. We spent about an hour studying the material and considering it’s pros and cons. At the start of our deliberations there was foliage on the lowest jinned branch in the first picture but we quickly agreed that because it was so low on the trunk, it’s contribution to any potential design solution for the tree would be limited.
Any good design for a juniper should include an impressive area of shari and jins and the remaining foliage should be arranged to display these features at their best.
With this in mind we then discussed the contribution that each of the remaining branches would make. The remaining unnecessary foliage was then removed.
The first…
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