Specialty Gardening: Container Soils: Water Movement and Retention II, 5 by tapla

tapla wrote:
That's a Picea pungens glauca 'Globosa Nana' - a globe baby blue spruce. I limited the height by pruning with a hedge trimmer, pruned it into a circular shape - as seen from above, and used my fingers to rub or pull off all the needles and new buds on the underside. You can literally set a glass of water on it. I have one at my place of business, too.

The 'table' is just a 2'x2' patio paving stone that I set on top of a large overturned ceramic pot that I wasn't using for anything. I have another similar arrangement - I'll show a picture below. I don't mean to take the thread off track, sorry - we should prolly stay on the topic.

Here's my 'comma' juniper just after a pruning. The brown goes away as the new growth comes in.

Al