Blue Chip Juniper Bonsai

Blue carpet is a prostrate variety that is especially suitable for cascade and semi cascade styles.
Blue chip juniper bonsai. A number of varieties exist including meyeri blue carpet and blue star. Often the first bonsai ever owned by a novice due to its massive success in the mallsai market the juniper is well known and appreciated by all. Messages 1 136 reaction score 1 652 location sheffield village ohio usda zone 6a mar 17 2020 1 worked on this blue chip juniper i got last may for 10. Bonsai blue star juniper pruning duration.
Start date mar 17 2020. The two most popular juniper species for bonsai of the group with scale like foliage are the chinese juniper and the japanese shimpaku which is a variety of the chinese juniper which was originally found in the japanese mountains. Probably could have used another season to gain more strength. Both have scale like foliage with a color ranging from yellowish green to bluish green or grayish green.
Wiring a bonsai tree trunk duration. Blue chip on lace rock. A superior low evergreen shrub that displays beautiful silver blue foliage on a widely spreading habit. The range of colour of the foliage ranges from steely blue greens to light greens occasionally with silver or gold hues.
This juniper is notable for its striking blue gray foliage. Blue chip juniper is a brilliantly colored low growing juniper that makes a wonderful groundcover or mass planting for slopes. Junipers have foliage of two types needle like juvenile foliage and scale like adult foliage species that exhibit predominantly one or the other are used for bonsai cultivation. It was in pretty bad shape and is recovering.
Common in landscapes nurseries and in the wild the juniper offers more opportunities for bonsai stock than most other species and lends itself well to bonsai techniques and container environments. A durable tough groundcover for edging driveways. The deer resistant foliage retains its rich color all year long. Foliage is a silver blue color during the warmer time of year and displays attractive purplish colored tips during the winter.
Juniperus horizontalis blue chip.