Juniper Bonsai Jin

Jin shari and uro creating deadwood on bonsai in the form of jin or shari can enhance the tree s character significantly.

Juniper bonsai jin. The juniper is a genus of about 50 70 species within the cypress family. The parsoni juniper is drought tolerant and has low maintenance requirements. When we think of a traditional bonsai and what it should look like we think of a juniper procumbens nana these impressive trouble free evergreens are an excellent choice for the beginner. The parsoni juniper s soft texture and bluish green foliage grows in a dome like mound shape.

Naturally as these photos show pine jin is broken and not sharp and juniper jin is eroded and comparatively sharper but often not as sharp as some of us make our jin. The juniper was five feet wide. A jin is meant to show age or show that the tree has had a struggle to survive. Juniper bonsai trees sold at large stores including walmart and home depot are often japanese garden junipers also called green mound junipers juniperus procumbens nana.

A jin is a bare stripped part of branch and a shari is a barkless part of trunk. Juniper prune and tidy up. Jin 神 is a bonsai deadwood technique used on branches or the top of the trunk the leader. This juniper bonsai tree is a dense evergreen tree that is derived from chinese juniper juniperus chinensis a highly variable species found throughout china and japan.

Juniper bonsai trees these dwarf junipers from japan are the most popular evergreen in the u s. This bonsai was collected from the owner s yard in may of 1999. Surprisingly it only took less than an hour to get it out of the ground. They are evergreen coniferous trees or shrubs which are very popular for bonsai purposes.

One could certainly make the argument that a sharp jin is more in line with what bonsai scale would dictate.