As you can see the crown needed some attention, the branch placement and some of the angles were less than desireable but there was a decent tree in there somewhere. The placement in the pot? Hmmmm....
By summer the tree had improved a little, but the foliage was still very sparse. I had wired the branches and had been able to lower the first branch a little. Thee tree at the end of winter Work on the tree progressed and gradual improvements were made. I sold a large number of trees in December 2006 prior to my big move out of suburbia and into the Yarra Ranges, the Sargent Juniper was among the trees sold, by then it had filled out quite well and was repotted into a more appropriate pot. The buyer has the tree back to me on a yearly basis for rework and repotting, the tree fills its pot with roots and tries to climb out every October which is pretty remarkable vigour for a Sargent Juniper, it's become my job to reduce the rootball by 40-50% every spring.
So here is the tree in October 2009 as it arrived at my nursery.
And the tree with the restyling done.
The biggest task now is to get the trees owner to pich the folaige pads at least occasionally
I wouldnt mind if there was a little branch separation maintained 
We will see in 2010.
Cheers
MM
says nothing will grow on the Balcony coz its too windy and salty. 
taking the top half of trees of since 2005! 
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Sorry to be an ignorant numbscull.
