Creating compact Juniper Bonsai Foliage | Techniques for Garden Junipers

How do you handle floppy foliage on garden variety junipers? Naturally a pfitzeriana Juniper bonsai will have more open foliage than an ittoigawa. However, there are methods to create somewhat dense foliage pads on garden variety junipers.

0:00 Juniper Bonsai
0:15 Foliage difference between Ittoigawa and garden Juniper
1:38 Pruning juniper foliage for compact bonsai pads
5:28 Pruning example on a full sized bonsai
8:17 History of large Juniper Bonsai
9:05 Thinning Juniper Foliage
13:20 Tip-pruning Juniper Bonsai
11:39 Difference between maintenance and development pruning bonsai
16:20 Grafting juniper foliage

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