Raft Style Bonsai

About a year later the tree was found in a bad condition after being run over by a car.
Raft style bonsai. Raft style imitates trees in nature that have fallen down and the branches on one side have continued to grow as individual trees. Instead of digging the tree out after being found it was initially chopped back and left to recover in the forest. By bonsailearningcenter feb 25 2016 bonsai learning articles. Outright amazing raft style bonsai connected by same root system the ramification is well developed main branches break intro a network of smaller branching then dense twigginess.
The root system was seriously damaged. In raft style the trunk along the ground is perfectly straight and illustrates a tree in nature that has been blown over by the wind taken root and had its branches on the upward side continue growth as new trunks. Raft style or netsuranari bonsai mimic a natural phenomenon that occurs when a tree topples onto its side. This case study shows a hawthorn found in a forest and trained into a raft style bonsai tree.