Bought two new Bonsais.

[luigonz]

justin,

I heard that you never want to take off more than 20% of a junipers foliage at a time.

I lost two green mound junipers that I bought from a local nursery because I was too zealous with my pruning from the start. I would take my time with the juniper.

[JustinBoi]

I'm going to be waiting till Spring or so.

[Marsman]

[img]https://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l612/Justin_Broughton/Newcameraphotos028.jpg[/img]

Well, I can't really see the trunk or branch structure, so it's hard to say where to go with this. You can [url=https://s956.photobucket.com/albums/ae50/marsman61/Bonsai/Juniper%20Procumbens/]take a look at my juniper[/url] and see the Photoshop work I did to plan a strategy with it.

[JustinBoi]

I got pruning scissors yesterday and even after cutting some off, It's still hard to see the beginning of the Juniper.

[manofthetrees]

it takes time and imagination especialy with a younger tree.you will need to decide what style you are aiming for then choose branches you want to keep and imagine the direction the growth will go.
sometimes its easy, I have a hemlock that I pruned and wired the day I bought it, but my large ficus took a month of turning and staring to decide the final prunning. and as for my little ficus I wired it and changed the design 3 times... I think its good now

[JustinBoi]

How do you wire a bonsai? And where can you buy it?