Bonsai Shohin Style
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Bonsai shohin style. These trees usually grow to be six to eight inches tall. The term shohin means tiny thing in japanese. Fast free shipping on many items. Shohin bonsai is the art of tiny bonsai tree training.
As for mame it is a japanese word that literally means bean. The slanting style can have a straight trunk or curved trunk but what typifies this style is that the apex is no longer over the base but off to one side or the other. However actually finding a yamadori shohin bonsai is difficult and good ones are few and far between. There are yamadori style shohin shimpaku that are cultivated to appear as their larger brothers and sisters in the mountains.
We take the same trees we use for normal bonsai and make then even smaller. Shohin is a japanese word. It means tiny thing and in the bonsai world shohin bonsai refers to trees that are within a certain size 6 8 to be specific. In terms of bonsai it is the mini bonsai between 3 6.
Get outdoors for some landscaping or spruce up your garden. Sometimes more than once a day. These trees tend to look like they have been blown off vertical by the wind or the earth sank on one side tilting the tree. They are perfect for those who are interested in growing bonsai but do not have much room.
Placing miniature bonsai in a bed of sand or small gravel keeps them moist and also keeps them from tipping over. Cross section view of container with holes.