Scots Pine Bonsai

The older darker needles on this branch grew last year.
Scots pine bonsai. Also known as the scots pine pinus sylvestris is a great pine bonsai species because it naturally takes on the shape that bonsai cultivators must work hard to create in other trees. The tree developed nicely into a masterpiece specimen in 2008. Each branch has a dense mass of needles growing from its tip. This gives the tree a beautiful canopied shape with little effort on the cultivator s part.
In the image above the scots pine is seen in early august prior to needle plucking and shoot pruning. For bonsai pines are especially popular and many people even regard them as the most typical bonsai trees. An evergreen coniferous tree. This is the same bonsai i posted a video of a couple of days i ve combined a short section of the first video to the one i have taken today.
This stunning yamadori scots pine pinus sylvestris was collected by tomas gramming from a bog near gothenburg in 2015. However these pines bud easier and fast compared to the black pine. With great natural movement very rough mature bark natural shari and jin and plenty of foliage for me to place trees like these are a dream to style. This bonsai is the common scots pine not a special variety.
My fellow bonsai artist at sbr3 samuel brierley studying the tree. A two needled pine greatly underrated as a bonsai bonsai. For fans of pines this is a good alternative to the black pine without requiring regular candle maintenance. I like scots pine pinus sylvestrisand also many of it s different cultivars.
It began as a one gallon pot seedling in 1970 which cost me 5. I ve now done some had pruning and opened up the. Each pine bonsai has a beautiful distinctive shape with outward and upward growth. To correctly prune and pluck the tree is methodically worked over branch by branch.
Widely indigenous across western europe and into asia. As pinus sylvestris ages it drops it s lower branches. Pine trees are evergreen coniferous resinous trees with needles that appear in bundles of two to five. A scots pine bonsai.
In britain grows wild mainly in scotland but is the most widely distributed conifer in the world.