Raising creeping junipers to bonsai

The ideal candidate for bonsai design

The following points speak for the creeping juniper as a bonsai:

• extremely easy to cut
• tolerates cutting all year round
• slow growth (3 to 7 cm per year)
• undemanding
• evergreen
• easy-care
• decorative, edible berries
• easily about cuttings too multiply
• well frost hardy

In what and where to plant?

The creeping juniper can be planted perfectly in a bonsai pot. It is ideal if you have the opportunity to put it outside. There he gets a lot of light. A lot of light means that it forms more needles and, as a result, receives a thicker trunk. Suitable locations are on the terrace and garden terrace, on the balcony and in front of the house entrance.

Don't forget to take care of it

The soil in the bonsai pot should not dry out. Otherwise the roots will dry up and the plant will perish. It is best to keep the creeping juniper from the brooding midday heat in summer. If it is hot and dry, you can spray it with lime-free water or rinse it off. Otherwise its soil is to be kept slightly moist.

That Fertilize is less important for the creeping juniper. You can use conventional liquid fertilizers or special fertilizers for juniper. Use the fertilizer sparingly! The liquid fertilizer is added to the irrigation water, which is best free of lime or Rainwater should be added (to avoid limescale stains). It is fertilized from February to October and ideally with an organic fertilizer.

Correct cutting and wiring has to be learned

That is with Cut and wires to be observed:

• Keep growth dense and compact
• pluck new shoots (May to September)
• thinning out the branches every 2 years
• Wrap branches, twigs and trunk with aluminum wire depending on the desired shape
• Remove the wire in mid-May