Shohin Bonsai Forest

Trees used for a shohin forest have to be selected at a young age to be able to train them in the pot from the very beginning.
Shohin bonsai forest. Shohin forest step two after a full season of growth during 2019 it is now time to put attention into the development of the ramification. The forests of field maples acer campestre have settled well in the pots and i am now pruning the leaves to make a tighter canopy and smaller branches. In the bonsai collection i have a japanese maple forest i started restyling a year ago. Although no exact rules were ever formulated a tree is considered to be a shohin bonsai when under 25 cm 10 tall.
Sometimes bonsai is about spectacular huge trees and at other times it is the beauty found in simplicity and understatement. Two examples included in this free video from morten albek shohin bonsai europ. Small forest with field maples acer campestre. Creating a shohin bonsai forest may seem an impossible job.
Shohin chinese elm forest 9 months 3 weeks ago 52319 philipjohansen wrote. A forest is a group of trees of one species growing as they would in nature. Shohin deutzia gracilis or this small flowering grass below is for the bonsai display or just to enjoy. A summer flowering shitakusa needletip blue eyed grass sisyrinchium mucronatum.
Bonsai live and a bonsai forest shohin bonsai europe wolf s birding and bonsai blog. Using one three year old seedlings creating a future shohin bonsai forest. It was bought as a single clump and needed in my opinion to be divided. Set up a bonsai on a table and begin just watching it.
Leave a reply cancel reply. The trees need to be placed together in a nice composition in a shallow container while staying under the 20cm 8 inches size restriction of shohin bonsai. If we use our bonsai not just for competition and work but simply studying them they will bring peace. Yose ue bonsai style most bonsai are single plants in a variety of different styles that resemble old trees growing in their native habitat.
I am planning on making a landscape forest with 4 chinese elm shohins. Shohin and mame bonsai trees 小品盆栽 豆盆栽 shohin means a small thing indicating it being even smaller than bonsai.