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A Dwarf Japanese Juniper (Juniperus procumbens 'Nana') bonsai on display. Multiple deadwood styles have been used on this tree. Deadwood bonsai techniques are methods in the Japanese art of bonsai (cultivation of miniature trees in containers) that create, shape, and preserve dead wood on a living bonsai tree. They enhance the illusion of age ...
Juniperus chinensis 'Shimpaku' (the shimpaku juniper) is a dwarf, irregular vase-shaped form of the Chinese juniper, Juniperus chinensis. Originally native to Japan, they were first collected in the 1850s in Japan. It is a slow-growing evergreen shrub that typically grows to 3 ft (0.9 m) tall and 5 ft (1.5 m) wide over a period of 10 years. [1]
J. procumbens ‘Nana’– This Japanese type of juniper shrub forms a dense mat of prickly blue-green needles that turn slightly purplish in winter. It grows slowly to 6-12 inches tall, 3-6 feet ...
Dwarf jade, elephant food, elephant bush [10] Prunus cerasifera: Flowering Plum [11] Prunus serrulata: Japanese Flowering Cherry (櫻) Prunus mume: Flowering Apricot (梅) Pseudosasa: Bamboo Pseudotsuga menziesii: Douglas Fir Punica granatum, including Punica granatum 'Nana' Pomegranate [6]: 76–77 Pyracantha: Firethorn [12]
Because many juniper shrubs are slower growing, they are less likely to overstep their bounds and require pruning. The problem is when the wrong juniper is planted in the wrong spot.
The status of Juniperus procumbens as a wild plant is disputed. Some authorities treat it as endemic to high mountains on Kyūshū and a few other islands off southern Japan, [2] while others consider it native to the coasts of southern Japan (north to Chiba Prefecture) and also the southern and western coasts of Korea.
This juniper makes extensive use of both jin (deadwood branches) and shari (trunk deadwood). Bonsai are carefully styled to maintain miniaturization, to suggest age, and to meet the artist's aesthetic goals. Tree styling also occurs in a larger scale in other practices like topiary and niwaki. In bonsai, however, the artist has close control ...
Juniperus chinensis, the Chinese juniper, is a species of plant in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to China, Myanmar, Japan, Korea and the Russian Far East. [1] Growing 1–20 metres ( 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 65 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet) tall, it is a very variable coniferous evergreen tree or shrub.