Bonsai Shaping Styles
By splitting apart the starting material allowing aggressive growth and then applying sound horticultural and bonsai techniques five quite unique bonsai are being developed from one tree.
Bonsai shaping styles. Some more refinement will make it even more attractive. A lovingly tended juniper bonsai is not just a beautiful plant. Includes upright slanted windswept cascading multi trunk forest and more. Formal upright chokkaan.
Slanting bonsai style shakan as a result of the wind blowing in one dominant direction or when a tree grows in the shadow and must bend toward the sun the tree will lean in one direction. Another defining asset is that it tapers all the way up the tree. To properly style a juniper bonsai it is necessary to wire and position the foliage mass. Basically copper or aluminium wire is wrapped around the trunk and branches to form the shape of the tree you are trying to create.
Bonsai is a japanese word which means planted in a container. Maintenance pruning to maintain and refine the existing shape of a bonsai and structural pruning which involves more rigorous pruning to give a tree its basic shape or style. The styling of bonsai trees includes basic methods like regular pruning and wiring but also more advanced techniques including the creation of deadwood. The branches likewise are often more severe than on other shapes.
This can be a long and time consuming process but needs to be done periodically throughout the life of the tree to keep the foliage mass and the bonsai itself refined. 13 types of bonsai trees by style and shape plus pictures 12 types of bonsai trees illustrated via 54 pictures organized by style shape. The inner branches had become weak as a result and in terms of shaping the. Finding material to use in designing such a bonsai is not always easy.
Essentially there are two different techniques. A common misconception is that the plants used for bonsai are genetically dwarfed plants. Bonsai trees are normal plants propagated like any other but trained using sophisticated techniques to keep them in miniature size. Tree 4 is a nicely shaped and attractive semi cascade bonsai.
Styling and shaping bonsai trees. The roots are well developed on one side to keep the tree standing. While it s a japanese term the art of growing plants and trees in containers started with the chinese which they called pun sai. It is a horticultural work of art achieved by years of consistent pruning shaping repotting and faithful care.
This style is defined by the perfectly straight trunk line. If you ask any bonsai enthusiast what is the best way to shape your tree and ask nicely they will tell you how to wire a bonsai to shape. By doing this the read more. With bonsai the leaning style should grow at an angle of about 60 80 degrees relative to the ground.
Tree 5 is nearly done and ready to be admired.