Chinese Bonsai Styles

Since my first bonsai class i have learned that there are two distinct regional variations in chinese bonsai penjing the southern style and the northern style.
Chinese bonsai styles. The deadwood bonsai styles identify trees with prominent dead branches or trunk scarring. Includes upright slanted windswept cascading multi trunk forest and more. The roots are well developed on one side to keep the tree standing. Trunk and root placement.
Coiled style this twisted style is probably the closest to what came from china. She wrote a beautifully worded thorough article on the subject for the art of bonsai blog. My teacher kept telling us that the southern style is the better one and i always thought what he said was a bias statement that purely based on personal taste. Many bonsai growers like to expose the long roots as seen in this tree to create the neagari style.
Chinese bonsai has always fascinated me. Often called the dragon style or green dragon it is a favorite in chinese bonsai and is an auspicious presence in the garden. A chinese renaissance several years ago that i grasped a deeper meaning and the genuine differences. Trident maple bonsai watering.
Slanting the trunk is straight like that of a bonsai grown in the formal upright style. An ikadabuki raft style penjing landscape by matyie che makhtar. This tree was selected from a batch of early imports in the 1980s. While they are young they can easily be wired into curved shapes and are suited to many bonsai styles.
One of the main features of trident maple is that it can take heavy root pruning which makes it perfect for bonsai. 2 casuarina equisetifolia landscape by eddy sebayang. You can use different styles with trident maple bonsai tree including curved trunk broom group plantings and clump styles. A number of styles describe the trunk shape and bark finish.
1 ikadabuki raft style penjing landscape by matyie che makhtar. Bonsai is a japanese word which means planted in a container. 3 chinese penjing landscape with figurine by matyie che makhtar. With bonsai the leaning style should grow at an angle of about 60 80 degrees relative to the ground.
However the slant style trunk emerges from the soil at an angle and the apex of the bonsai will be located. 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. Perhaps that s the reason bunjin aka literati is one of my favorite bonsai styles it wasn t until i read karin albert s penjing. The leaves are especially small.