Juniperus Virginiana Bonsai
Juniperus virginiana common name.
Juniperus virginiana bonsai. Designed by tobie kleynhans. The best soil composition for juniper trees. Red cedar is an evergreen growing 40 to 50 feet tall in an oval columnar or pyramidal form very diverse and spreading 8 to 15 feet when given a sunny location. Juniper bonsai juniperus care guide for the juniper bonsai tree.
There are more than 50 varieties in the genus juniperus which. Tobie kleynhans south africa. Red cedar is usually found at about the dallas area northward. Actually dario our local juniper here is ashe juniper juniperus ashei which looks nearly identical to red j.
The forest planting was created in 2000 with pencil junipers approximately 7 to 10 year old nursery stock the current arrangement was planted in 2015 and the photograph was taken in january 2018. There are two masterpieces trained by peter michienzi from new jersey he displayed in past us national bonsai exhibitions. Virginiana but is different in a few key ways. They are easy to find grow and train but dynamic specimens are rare.
The biggest for us bonsai folk is that they re harder to collect and keep containerized roots are much touchier. The juniper is a genus of about 50 70 species within the cypress family. Juniperus virginiana sabina de virginia o enebro americano juniperus procumbens. Container imported from china.
El bonsai de junípero es uno de los más indicados para aquellos que se inician en el cultivo del bonsái no sólo por la belleza de las tonalidades de su follaje verde azulado sino también por su resistencia y dureza. They are evergreen coniferous trees or shrubs which are very popular for bonsai purposes. Juniperus virginiana is a dense slow growing coniferous evergreen tree that may never become more than a bush on poor soil but is ordinarily from 5 20 m or 16 66 ft tall with a short trunk 30 100 cm or 12 39 inches in diameter rarely to 27 m or 89 ft in height and 170 cm or 67 inches in diameter. Indeed the eastern red cedar or pencil cedar juniperus virginians is not often seen as a well trained bonsai.
It develops a brownish tint in winter in the north and is sometimes used in windbreaks or screens. Juniper trees are one of the most popular trees in home and public landscaping designs. Seedlings and some twigs of older trees have needle like leaves 0 4 to 1 inch 5 25 mm long.