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Gooday all, I am planning to buy this bonzai (pine - unidentified) from someone for our backyard retreat. I wondered if you had any suggestions towards shaping/pruning? Open to any and all opinions.

Do you feel this is in a good place to start. Will be my first pine bonsai as i had a ficus which was progressing nicely until we went on vacation a heat wave hit and our AC died. Could never revive it.

Thanks,

Matt

Hard to tell anything from those pictures as the resolution is too low and they're taken from too far.
However, that's not a pine bonsai but rather a young, bushy juniper of some sort.
Not that this should stop you.

You'd need to do it try to look very close, inside the bush, and see if the trunk and the main branches have some interesting movement.
Start from cleaning it up from dead foliage and crotch growth; only then you can see what shape it really has and what it can be turned into.

Impossible to give any meaningful advice from afar, particularly at this stage.

It looks like a juniper indeed( but hard to see on the picture). It needs to be placed outside or it will die. I would first work on keeping it alive for a year or so before doing anything else. Sounds silly maybe but that gives you time to study your plant and bonsai in general

It is not a pine it is a Juniper, and as it is still alive you have time to get it outside where it has a chance to live. It needs to grow and stay healthy before you do any work, the strength of Junipers is in the foliage so you must maintain it.

Thank you it is still in the hands of the seller. I will post a follow up once i have it in hand.

Thx

www.bonsaiempire.com/tree-species/juniper

Somewhere here on 名媛直播 Empire, there's a video, of someone pruning a very similar tree. Can even buy one here, with instructions, and a few tools.