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    Juniper Bonsai Guide
    Juniper Bonsai Guide
    Juniper Bonsai Guide
    Ebook38 pages15 minutes

    Juniper Bonsai Guide

    By Bonsai Empire

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    Learn how to maintain your Juniper Bonsai tree with the "Juniper Bonsai Guide".

    Junipers are incredibly popular Bonsai trees, sold at many stores and online shops. They are strong trees and very suitable for beginners at the art of Bonsai. But how do you keep your tree alive? And how can you maintain its shape?

    The "Juniper Bonsai Guide" explains the care guidelines, cultivation and design principles for the Juniper. It includes over a hundred photos and explains techniques including watering, fertilizing, repotting, pruning and wiring in easy to use step-by-step guides.

    - over 100 stunning images
    - explains Juniper care, styling and propagation
    - with step-by-step explanations
    - all techniques explained specifically for the Juniper

    Bonsai Empire is the world's most visited Bonsai website and has provided beginners with quality information for over a decade. We have developed this Juniper guide to help you get a taste of this fascinating and living art, and make sure you know how to care for your Juniper Bonsai!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBonsai Empire
    Release dateMar 3, 2018
    ISBN9788892502802
    Juniper Bonsai Guide

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      Juniper Bonsai Guide - Bonsai Empire

      CONCLUSION

      1. INTRODUCTION

      INTRODUCTION

      Junipers are incredibly strong trees, and can handle aggressive pruning as well as small errors in Bonsai care, which explains its popularity as a Bonsai tree species. The juniper is a genus of about sixty species within the cypress family. Juniper Bonsai trees sold at large stores, including Walmart and Home Depot, are often Japanese Garden Junipers, also called Green Mound Junipers (Juniperus procumbens nana).

      A green mound Juniper, available at most online Bonsai stores.

      Other popular species are:

      the Chinese juniper (Juniperus chinensis)

      the Japanese Shimpaku (Juniperus sargentii)

      the Japanese needle juniper (Juniperus rigida)

      the Savin (Juniperus sabina)

      the Common juniper (Juniperus communis)

      the California Juniper (Juniperus californica)

      the Rocky Mountain Juniper (Juniperus scopulorum)

      and the Sierra Juniper (Juniperus occidentalis)

      All these varieties are evergreen, coniferous trees, with very similar care guidelines. Keep in mind that all Junipers should be kept outdoors, year-round. They will not survive in the dry, warm and poorly lighted environment of our living rooms. Some protection from frost can

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