Creating A Bonsai Forest

Posted by catherine wolf on may 7 2015 in articles and stories.

Creating a bonsai forest. From a styling perspective anchoring makes. Even the recreation room at the county fair building seemed small this day with the many members that turned out. Instead of creating and displaying a single tree with a forest we create a complete landscape. A group planting should consist of different sizes of trees a few tall ones for in the middle and several smaller ones to plant on the sides.

I had some spare ficus so i decided to create little forest with thesee little ficus plants. How to create a bonsai forest planting. Consisting of usually five or more trees these planting show either a near or far forest. Bonsai farmer plan t s a forest.

I position the branches to invite the eye into this. The forest style in japanese yose ue is one of the most popular styles of bonsai. Create a bonsai forest. For our april member meeting scott chadd of lotus bonsai nursery demonstrated how to create a forest planting.

Creating bonsai forest requires an odd number of trees probably started with the penjin recreations of the nature of bonsai in the chinese style the japanese took this technique polished simplified and applied their characteristic rigor resulting in beautiful specimens that seek to match the forests found in nature. Securing trees to the pot can be very challenging. Use trees mostly growing upright as the composition could look unnatural when using different shapes of trees. One of the most intersting plantings that can be done with bonsai is a forest planting.

Learn how to create a shohin 6 8 inches tall bonsai forest from young seedlings. First of all suitable bonsai plants need to be selected. Yose ue although bonsai are often planted solitary trees in nature are more commonly found in groups. Creating a bonsai forest or group planting requires an odd number of trees.

I added some stones and agate along with moss. This is merely a matter of taste. In this movie morten albek shows you how a forest planting can be created with 1 3 year old maple seedlings easily found in forests. Jerome owner of the bonsai supply shows you how to make a bonsai forest planting using 5 brazilian raintrees.