For some time I tried to avoid the unavoidable, or perhaps I didn't want to accept it, but let me tell you that my juniper bonsai did not survive a storm a couple of months ago that tumbled it over. :(
It had most of its roots exposed to air and by the following day, when I checked on all my bonsai trees, they had dried out. Repotting was immediate and did everything in my knowledge to save it; and the following weeks it seemed that it worked. However, its foliage slowly began to turn yellow. My initial thought was that I needed to water it more since we had a couple of weeks here in Austin with extreme heat. No success, more and more foliage turned yellow.
Regular watering continued, hoping that it was just a weather thing and when fall arrived everything would come back to normal. By the time fall arrived most of its foliage had fallen off. It was then that I decided that I could not continue hoping for a recovery.
There were to options: 1) throw away Juni and accept defeat, or 2) repot it in a smaller container and still keep it as a bonsai, but one that never grows and stays as it is forever. Obviously I chose option 2, and here are pictures of it:
Black sand was used to decorate it and gives it a great contrast with that pot. There's beauty even in death and I did my best to pay respect to this juniper. It taught me many lessons on how to take care of bonsai and learned from my mistakes, I will keep Juni forever.
Thank you for reading.
