Container Juniper Shrub Winter Dormancy - Zone 5 - December 2022
For the past few years (planted in 2019), we've had a creeping/crawling Juniper shrub planted in a patio container out back. I put it in this container and attempted to prune it a little bit and wire it up when I was focused on trying my hand at bonsai . Two years later (Spring of 2021), I was seeing some wire damage and (for now) abandoned the project . My thought was....let this thing grow a bit more, then let's revisit it for pruning and shaping as it is more mature. On a recent walk in the backyard, I came across (or...really...'noticed') this shrub in the container and I was (temporarily) alarmed. Look at it in the photo below. It is maroon-ish/green. Or, I suppose, one could view it as greenish/maroon-ish/brown-ish/grey-ish? Is that a color? (That is a lot of 'ishes'.) I snapped that photo and then went looking back in the garden diary here. I found this post from two years ago - December of 2020 . Good news: it was (then) the same color as to