Bonsai Semi Cascade Style

The branches on the main trunk will reach both out and up as though it were striving for the sun.
Bonsai semi cascade style. The cascade style of bonsai represents a natural tree growing down the face of an embankment. You typically see this bonsai in a tall skinny pot that is used to raise the bonsai off the ground to give it room to cascade. Creating a cascade bonsai. Semi cascade bonsai style han kengai the semi cascade style just like the cascade style is found in nature on cliffs and on the banks of rivers and lakes.
For this reason the container should be placed on the edge of the table or on a small stand. The viewer will tend to have an unbalanced feeling if the nebari is not solid. At the end of the video i review the thought process involved while styling the tree and how you might apply it to your own trees. The trunk grows upright for a small distance and then bends downwards sidewards.
The semi cascade style has a trunk that is allowed to grow straight for a certain distance and then is cascaded down at a less abrupt angle than in the cascade style. When styling semi cascade style be sure to balance the visual weight of the tree and the pot. In japanese a cascade bonsai form is called a kengai bonsai. Juniper bonsai styling in this video i style semi cascade juniper.
A semi cascade style bonsai is one in which the major cascading feature extends below the top rim of the pot but does not extend below the bottom of the pot. The cascading branches are thought of as the front of the tree and the back branches are trained closer to the trunk than in the other styles. Bonsai pruning tree pruning bonsai plants bonsai garden bonsai forest rock garden plants moss garden succulents garden bonsai tree care. For more instructional videos please click the link below.
If you can picture a tree growing on the side of a cliff spilling off the mountain this is what cascade is meant to mimic. In this video i style semi cascade juniper. At the end of the video i review the thought process involved while styling the tree and how you might apply it to your own trees. The main trunk of a bonsai in a cascade form will bend downward past the lip of its container and past its root line.
Unlike the cascade style the semi cascade trunk will never grow below the bottom of the pot. Bonsai tree styles the japanese tradition describes bonsai tree designs using a set of commonly understood named styles but the most common styles include formal upright informal upright slanting semi cascade cascade raft literati and group forest. Less common forms include windswept weeping split trunk and driftwood styles. The cascade style is one of the most popular bonsai styles used today.