Can you please confine your questions on your tree to one post? Thanks. No you cannot just start it from roots (and they aren't going to show signs of life if the tree's so obviously gone - junipers get brittle at the very end, after it's too late to revive (unless it is just a single 'bad' branch.

A closer look at a couple of leaves would be helpful... it's hard to tell with the sun on them (or shadow). Almost looks like a holly, but if you bought it as a 'bonsai' vs at a nursery and then repotted, holly seems less likely. Where are you?

Hi - I like its potential, but have a couple of things to throw out - I don't know who told you to water little bits often, but it's a mistake because the roots never get any water, or at least not enough, but the top parts stay soggy, which is not good for newer higher-up roots... so do water less often, but well (til it comes out the bottom a bit). Secondly, it's hard to say what it is because you have many plants/trees there that we don't have up here, so it could be a honeysuckle, but also who knows what, and you could bring it to a local nursery for help with an ID as without one, it'll be hard to do the right thing by it! As with any tree or plant that normally grows naturally outdoors in your climate (vs another very different one), you must leave it outdoors to experience all its requisite seasons properly - are you in e.g. N. Queensland where it's almost always very hot, or in the south, where it can get cold and wet? Now what you have to do is choose individual branches to keep and to prune away - but as it's a deciduous (leafy) tree rather than an evergreen (pine, etc), prune in spring and not autumn, which of course is right now where you are (spring, I mean :-). Don't just hack away at things, but do it for reasons of style (to at least some extent in accordance with bonsai tradition (rules) until such time as you know so much about them that breaking the rules becomes a conscious thought out design decision that makes sense on its own... and that probably won't be for years I guess... which is why rules help, to understand why you cut this branch and not the other... blah blah! I'll leave it to you to research why (not just for artistic angles, but to encourage (or otherwise) new buds to grow where you want them. You need to have some idea in mind of what you want the future tree to look like (years from now) before just cutting branches off that you might want after all. But it's also important to consider those which grow directly opposite each other on the trunk (not necessarily desirable), or cross each other in X directions, etc... start reading up on all that and then cut only when you're very sure about it. Get back at some time (whenever) with new pix and Q's if you have any. But find out what it is before anything else, if only so you get a better handle on how often to water (or not, if it's living outdoors and nature is doing the job).

You've posted one of those post where the questions are many and require you to make an effort into reading other postings from topics referencing Jades Watering is one subject you asked In response you could read YES you could water once a week in another response you may hear once every month My response : What is the soil composed of ? Your cultivating practices will be known before the end result you've shown My response for the final end result you want is more questions : How long will it take: Aummm 5- 8 years ?5- 8 Decades ? Depends on your cultivating practices. New plants with nice results and ideas can be overly exiting for it's new owner help us help you break your questions down into topics Develop good cultivating practices by reading more on yours topic here at GW or other places as most of your questions have several responses on this very forum. Leaf propagating: A subject of it's own will be good to see follow up from you on this on it's own thread. Guessing if you apply the effort for them to root 4 - 6 weeks some of them may show root as the others could take longer Not certain if you'll have 100 % successes but is a good effort.