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Cleaning up deadwood on a procumbens juniper

February 4, 2014 by Jonas Dupuich

Although cleaning up deadwood can be painstaking work, the actual process is relatively simple. To prepare the procumbens juniper below for exhibit, I used toothbrush and water to scrub the deadwood and then rinsed away the debris. A few hours later, after the wood had a chance to dry, I painted lime-sulfur onto the deadwood. Within another hour or so, the sulfurous yellow wore off leaving behind the characteristic white color.

I chose a 100% solution as some of the deadwood was being treated for the first time while other branches had been lime-sulfured before. By going with a strong solution, the idea was to make the deadwood as even-colored as possible.

Procumbens juniper

Procumbens juniper

Procumbens juniper

After scrubbing the deadwood

Deadwood

Jin and shari

Deadwood

The base of the trunk

Procumbens juniper

After treating with lime-sulfur

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  1. quiltykanuck says

    February 6, 2014 at 4:37 am

    Oh how I cannot wait to see my trees again. I live in Quebec city, Canada so needless to say, my trees are overwintering right now so no working on them. I had started working on my juniper last year, but it is still in the ground in my yard, gaining a bit of girth around the trunk.

    Your trees are beautiful and how lucky you are to work with Boon. It is one of my hubby and I’s dream to fly to SF for one of his intensive classes. One day when the kids have grown…

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