Bonsai Twin Trunk
This article should be able to anyone wanting to know more about chopping trees.
Bonsai twin trunk. California bonsai art has a great article titled maple trunk chopping. Nigel saunders the bonsai zone 15 308 views. The flow of the foliage cloud to the left almost gives a hint of windswept. Twin trunk branch pattern 1 year 3 weeks ago 49511 jzurita982 wrote.
You will notice my wiring job is horrible but it s something i intend to dig into deeper as well. The article is full of advice on how to chop a tree. Merging the trunk is actually the fastest way to achieve a thick bonsai trunk however it will not work on an existing bonsai tree. Twin and triple trunk plantings are generally not thought of as forests but the principles inherent in their construction are repeated and ramified in the construction of a forest planting.
Gafu ten 2012 bonsai in japan a nice example of a twin trunk. You ll essentially need to grow a number of sapling trees around a conical object with them tied as tight to each other as possible using a light rope. It s not perfect and you need more practice but i wouldn t call it horrible. The solid trunks are housed in a well matched pot.
Welcome to part 2 of this mini series on boxwood bonsai. A bonsai planting consisting of more than one trunk can technically be considered a group planting. I assume this to be a black pine. Pruning my large cedar and my austrian pine bonsai the bonsai zone june 2020 duration.
Pleasing variations can be achieved with the smaller trunk being either short or tall and not growing from the base but slightly higher up the tree. In this episode i work on a mother and daughter style bonsai and explain why it is not exactly a twin trunk bonsai. If you enjoyed this.