AusBonsai

Hi All
Please could someone help me ID this juniper , I dug it out of my neighbors garden a year ago and have let it recover for the last year and intend to leave it for another year before looking at starting to shape it , but I would just like to know what type it is and how to work with it. Please excuse the photos as these are about the best i can do with my camera, on the one photo you can see it has adult and juvenile foliage , this is on a branch that i cut off as i intend to carve it . Thanks for any help
regards
peterb

Pfitzeriana family probably,

Best to graft it over to Shimpaku.

Grant

I have a couple which looks exactly like this. What I have is Juniperus Chinensis, common Chinese Juniper. If regularly pinching the growing tips, they do start creating nice foliage pads. Initially you think they may not, but they do respond well.

Juiniperus virginiana ''Grey Owl''

Hi Everyone
thanks for the responses , i'm a little confused now , i have three possibilities although on reading up i believe the common chinese juniper is the pfitzeriana. Does the grey owl make a good bonsai subject or does one graft those as well. Grant you said to graft the pfitzeriana to shimpaku , would you be so kind as to point me in the right direction with this or are there wiki links to this technique, as i have 2 shimpakus that i can take scions off ,of. I'm quite eager to learn more about this
kind regards
peterb