Bonsai Style Chart

Since bonsai is truly and ancient practice there are some old words that have no current translation.

Bonsai style chart. This is a good period for a number of types of work on bonsai. Formal upright informal upright slant semi cascade and cascade are where to start. The broom style bonsai tree is a deciduous bonsai tree which is a bushy from it branching out like a mushroom. This style looks like its name a broom.

Bonsai size classification chart and guide. Here is a small chart for each bonsai tree size category. Slanting trees in nature are called leaners trees that have been forced by the wind and gravity into non vertical growth. Triple trunk style sankan three trunks are on this bonsai and they all should be of differeng thicknesses for aesthetics.

Slanted style trees often provide a powerful impression of strength and age. Many people think of bonsai as small trees. Windswept bonsai windswept miniature trees or fukinagashi are the ones that look like have been affected by strong and constant winds. Twin trunk style sokan the sokan style has two trunks.

Most bonsai can be repotted during the winter but the best period for this is the weeks immediately prior to the early spring revival when you judge that there is no longer a danger of intense cold that could damage the roots. And for aesthetics one trunk is thicker than the other. The trunk is about one third of the tree. In the slanting bonsai style the trunk has a more acute angle than in the previous styles.

Certain types of trees tend to be better for this style. As you ll see in our photo gallery of bonsai trees below there are many styles of bonsai trees. This bonsai shape is often used for deciduous trees. As the tree is developed the wonderful branching and ramification is on full display in the fall and winter.

There s also a semi cascade style called han kengai in which the peak of the tree reach at the level or just beneath the containing pot. These terms are still widely used in the bonsai world out of respect and tradition. Broom style bonsai hokidachi the broom style is suited for deciduous trees with extensive fine branching. There is no conclusive authority as to how bonsai.

The top two thirds are branches which are shaped into a crown. They don t realize that there is a wide array of sizes classifications and styles to this art form. It branches out in all directions at about 1 3 the height of the tree. The styles are generally classified by the growth shape of the bonsai.