Juniper Deadwood Bonsai
Jin shari and uro creating deadwood on bonsai in the form of jin or shari can enhance the tree s character significantly.
Juniper deadwood bonsai. Aged 150 years the tree was completely raw and unstyled since collection 3 years previously. A jin is meant to show age or show that the tree has had a struggle to survive. Junipers are most often the plant material of choice for making a tanuki bonsai. This juniper sabina bonsai was purchased from spain where it had been collected from high up in the mountains.
Juniper bonsai trees sold at large stores including walmart and home depot are often japanese garden junipers also called green mound junipers juniperus procumbens nana. Jin 神 is a bonsai deadwood technique used on branches or the top of the trunk the leader. They are evergreen coniferous trees or shrubs which are very popular for bonsai purposes. As a result it is an incredibly diverse variety with almost infinate forms.
Jins on trees in nature are normally created. Rocky mountain juniper as mentioned in the first paragraph deadwood on a bonsai is not just for decoration. This is an outdoor tree and the age is estimated at 12 years old. As a result it had many layers of flaking bark on the live veins.
Deadwood on bonsai in the form of jinor shari adds an effective feature to a design and in the case of many old pine and juniper a very realistic one as well. Jins are created in nature when wind lightning or other adversity kills the leader or a branch further down the tree. It s been wired to give it some shape but the trees progression can now be yours. Common juniper evergreen bonsai tree.
How about this gnarly looking juniper with deadwood. More often than not they are junipers but pines yews firs and hemlocks might also be fair game. This stems from the fact that most ancient trees with this much dead wood usually fall into the evergreen class. It portrays or tells a story or history of that tree.
You ll likely want to lime sulphur the deadwood in the near future to threat and preserve the deadwood. The juniper is a genus of about 50 70 species within the cypress family.