Spruce Formal Upright Bonsai

Care guide for the spruce bonsai tree the spruce is an evergreen coniferous tree genus which is widespread in the northern hemisphere.
Spruce formal upright bonsai. Nearly all conifers are appropriate for the informal upright while some species of maple and beech are. Saburo kato s spruce boasts the formal upright style exhibiting the rare and highly prized japanese concept of shin. First examine the tree from all sides and pic a front. Tomekichi kato ii saburo s father was the first to develop the horticultural techniques necessary to cultivate the ezo spruce as a bonsai.
Blue spruce blue foliage makes for an unusual and attractive bonsai or a great hedge. Try to find a side where the trunk is thickest at the base and has some taper as it goes up. The branches grow whorled. Bonsai enthusiasts prefer species of pine spruce and larch for the formal upright positions.
Herons bonsai recommended for you. They can be difficult bonsai subjects and they are not all that popular. This formal upright ezo spruce has been a seasonal student project for a couple years now and in the final photo you can see where the tree is now. This gives the bonsai a fuller look.
Spruces can become 60 m 200ft tall when mature and have a typical conical shape. At this stage it could be transferred to a bonsai container so we ll be looking at that this spring. Branches are flexible and can easily be trained downwards to form a simple formal upright tree. Making formal upright bonsai from alberta spruce duration.
Shohin bonsai is a style of bonsai that focuses on maintaining movement and structure in a small form typically no larger than 10 in height. However you may not learn that much from spruce. Dec 27 2016 one of my favorite species for bonsai is ezo spruce although we don t have the wonderful collected ezo that the japanese have sometimes one can find cutting grown ezo that are often p.