Creating A Bonsai Forest

Learn how to create a shohin 6 8 inches tall bonsai forest from young seedlings.
Creating a bonsai forest. The forest style in japanese yose ue is one of the most popular styles of bonsai. In this movie morten albek shows you how a forest planting can be created with 1 3 year old maple seedlings easily found in forests. This is merely a matter of taste. Posted by catherine wolf on may 7 2015 in articles and stories.
Use trees mostly growing upright as the composition could look unnatural when using different shapes of trees. From a styling perspective anchoring makes. Before i go further i. Create a bonsai forest.
One of the most intersting plantings that can be done with bonsai is a forest planting. How to create a bonsai forest planting. Enjoy viewing seven stunning examples of bonsai forests. Jerome owner of the bonsai supply shows you how to make a bonsai forest planting using 5 brazilian raintrees.
Creating a bonsai forest or group planting requires an odd number of trees. I added some stones and agate along with moss. Creatinga forest bonsai tree arrangement. Bonsai farmer plan t s a forest.
For our april member meeting scott chadd of lotus bonsai nursery demonstrated how to create a forest planting. First of all suitable bonsai plants need to be selected. Instead of creating and displaying a single tree with a forest we create a complete landscape. Securing trees to the pot can be very challenging.
I position the branches to invite the eye into this. Creating bonsai forest requires an odd number of trees probably started with the penjin recreations of the nature of bonsai in the chinese style the japanese took this technique polished simplified and applied their characteristic rigor resulting in beautiful specimens that seek to match the forests found in nature. Even the recreation room at the county fair building seemed small this day with the many members that turned out. A group planting should consist of different sizes of trees a few tall ones for in the middle and several smaller ones to plant on the sides.