Semi Cascade Juniper Bonsai

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Semi cascade juniper bonsai. Semi cascade bonsai styles are very similar to cascade styles except for the fact that the tip of a semi cascading bonsai does not grow below the base level of the pot. Semi cascade prostrata juniper bonsai some heavy work in creating a semi cascade bonsai out of a very large prostrata juniper that has been growing in a pot in my yard for the past fifteen years. They are also commonly used as ground cover. Bonsai pruning tree pruning bonsai plants bonsai garden bonsai forest rock garden plants moss garden succulents garden bonsai tree care.

This arrangement stands 11 tall. Visited 48 times 1 visits today tags. This tree was grown from a cutting taken approximately 16 years ago. Juniper and cotoneaster are the two most popularly used to develop the cascade bonsai style because of their natural tendencies to grow close to the ground.

With a little wiring you can easily train both of these species into cascade bonsai. A semi cascade style bonsai is one in which the major cascading feature extends below the top rim of the pot but does not extend below the bottom of the pot. The trunk has a split bamboo support at the edge of its pot. For more instructional videos please click the link below.

Shimpaku juniper bonsai wire trained into a semi cascade style in a japanese unglazed pot measuring 5 1 2 square at the top lip and 5 1 4 tall. Juniper bonsai styling in this video i style semi cascade juniper. The viewer will tend to have an unbalanced feeling if the nebari is not solid. A strip of bright white on one of the main trunks a slender lifeline spiraling along a descending branch.

At the end of the video i review the thought process involved while styling the tree and how you might apply it to your own trees.