Juniper Bonsai Styling Tips
Styling juniper bonsai branches.
Juniper bonsai styling tips. Positioning the branches and foliage pads then to sit back and enjoy. Remove all dead branches unless foreseen as jin branch remove all inactive or unhealthy foliage no vigorous growth tip remove long and leggy branches. Do not trim the juniper like a hedge because the removal of all growing tips will weaken the tree and the cut will turn the needles brown. Before the branches can be wired it is necessary to thin out the foliage.
All too often the temptation when sitting in front of a juniper bush especially something which has a bushy growing habit is to give it a basic styling with wire. A common misconception is that the plants used for bonsai are genetically dwarfed plants. Bonsai trees are normal plants propagated like any other but trained using sophisticated techniques to keep them in miniature size. When styling nursery or pre bonsai stock determine what to keep by understanding what should be removed or cut off.
Styling and shaping bonsai trees. The juniper bonsai is generally a strong tree that also withstands aggressive pruning quite well. This can be a. Arranging the foliage mass the next task in arranging the branches of a juniper bonsai is to wire and arrange or lay out the foliage mass.
The buds are held between the tips of the thumb and forefinger and twisted sharply to make a clean cut. How to style a juniper bonsai 2020 a trees first styling duration. Juniper bonsai styling working with average material in this video jason does a follow up to his last video about wire scarring. He styles the same tree and discusses making the best of the material you have.
The styling of bonsai trees includes basic methods like regular pruning and wiring but also more advanced techniques including the creation of deadwood. This technique is also called nipping. The newly thinned out branches of a juniper bonsai note the otherwise bare shoots carry sprays of foliage at their tips. The practice used for pruning juniper bonsai trees is known as finger pinching.
When the foliage pads become too dense they must be thinned out with sharp scissors at the base. Thinning out the foliage.