Last summer I picked up this little juniper for a couple bucks from the section of the garden center where they put the plants that don’t look so good. In fact, this particular garden center calls it the TLC area.
At the time, it had several dead branches that extended from that hook at the top. It had a couple of healthy branches though so I thought I’d bring it home and give it a shot as a bonsai. I removed the dead branches and just let these remaining branches grow for the remainder of the season. Today, I gave it a little of that TLC it’s been needing.
The first priority was to get it out of the nursery pot. As I expected from having mostly dead branches last year, the pot was largely filled with dead roots that just fell away as I loosened the root ball. I…
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