roughly 3 years of work. started off as nursery material for $2. still a little heavy on foliage on the top right side hoping to fix that this season.

For $2... that's really not bad at all

Looks OK. But.. How certain are you this is a sabina?

leatherback wrote: How certain are you this is a sabina?

cant be to certain. but foliage, has the long scale foliage. was also sold and labeled as a Juniperus sabina (tamariscifolia) or tam juniper. did a little heavy pruning to try to get the foliage to grow dense but only resulted in long juvenile foliage (its current state).

do you think otherwise?

Dunno. I find junipers hard to identify. Just never seen sabina for sale.
I would have guessed in the pfitzeriana area

Juniperus sabina is the species, My sabinas have much tighter foliage than that.

m5eaygeoff wrote: Juniperus sabina is the species.

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correct, wouldnt that make tamariscifolia the variation?

leatherback wrote: Dunno. I find junipers hard to identify. Just never seen sabina for sale.

Did you not go to the trophy? There were loads of 'm.

Auk wrote:

leatherback wrote: Dunno. I find junipers hard to identify. Just never seen sabina for sale.

Did you not go to the trophy? There were loads of 'm.

OK, lets make that more precise. I have never seen them for sale in the nursery trade, which is where this tree seems to have come from.
I bought a sabina yamadori from spain at the trophy this year.

leatherback wrote: I have never seen them for sale in the nursery trade,

I see and indeed, neither have I.