SO I couldn´t resist and ordered me another Itoigawa juniper.
And based on a pic from supplier I made a virtual as what I want to do with it.
It seems it has enough foliage in the right places, so let´s see how close to it I can get.

Mimo, it is a good plan indeed.
I like Itoigawa cascades.

Not going to argue your styling; You have a good eye. But do you think this is the best tree you can make out of this?

I will not go into discussion about what is The best option. The best when it comes to design is a philosophical question and depends a lot on personal taste, experience and culture.

I would keep it upright.

Br
Magnus

Cheers for the comments lads.
As you might have seen a while ago I styled 3 itoigawas and they were all upright.
I want to do something different with this one
I know it would make a nice slanted or other style tree too, it has a nice curvy trunk so there are many options.
But semi cascade with such a nice movement of the trunk would please me the most as I do not have any like that yet

Mimo wrote: Cheers for the comments lads.
As you might have seen a while ago I styled 3 itoigawas and they were all upright.
I want to do something different with this one
I know it would make a nice slanted or other style tree too, it has a nice curvy trunk so there are many options.
But semi cascade with such a nice movement of the trunk would please me the most as I do not have any like that yet

Cool. Concious choice to go semi cascade then. My question was truely rooted in the trap avoidence "A cascade is always an option"

well yes, but I love this kind of cascades

I would change the angle to the opposite side and make a semi-cascade

FrankC wrote: I would change the angle to the opposite side and make a semi-cascade

if you tilt it to the right like you mentioned i personally think the bend on the trunk that moves to the right looks unpleasing, not to natural. with the way mimo wants to style it i think would be the best option as the bends flow alot more.

crent89 wrote:

FrankC wrote: I would change the angle to the opposite side and make a semi-cascade

if you tilt it to the right like you mentioned i personally think the bend on the trunk that moves to the right looks unpleasing, not to natural. with the way mimo wants to style it i think would be the best option as the bends flow alot more.

I would agree... for what it's worth... to me the trunk goes into too many opposing directions if you tip it to the right.... for such a small plant that really doesn't work for me. beyond that... tilting it left seems to deal with the two branches coming out of nearly the sam place better.