Pine Bunjin Bonsai
Pine trees are evergreen coniferous resinous trees with needles that appear in bundles of two to five.
Pine bunjin bonsai. July 3 2020 by jonas dupuich 4 comments. Consider the following comments by bonsai artist harry tomlinson. Graceful and sometimes radical twists turns and curves are valued. Although it does happen movement is desirable.
Also called bunjin this style of tree is often seen at the seashore or in areas where trees have grown up reaching for the light in competition with other trees that have since died or been felled. My goal is for the trees. Bunjin bonsai has no precise rules however not just any weirdly shaped tree will work. The first thing you will notice is they are tall with little to no taper rarely straight.
Bunjin is one of the most difficult styles of bonsai to successfully realize as it requires special characteristics already available in a given plant which then must be subtly enhanced by the designer. For bonsai pines are especially popular and many people even regard them as the most typical bonsai trees. See more ideas about bonsai rośliny drzewko bonsai. A few years ago i came across a batch of slender black pine seedlings from a corkbark parent.
Second up in our tale of two bunjin is this lodgepole pine pinus contorta subsp. Characteristically the trunk line flows or twists through several curves. This photo is from the fall of 2014. But here s one that didn t need any.
This virginia pine is one such tree that possesses those characteristics but which still needs time to fully develop over the coming years. This virginia pine is one such tree that possesses those characteristics but which still needs time to fully develop over the coming years. 2017 11 08 explore wiechos s board bunjin literati style on pinterest. Bonsai do look much better before all of this pruning and plucking.
Decandling young bunjin pines. Bunjin is one of the most difficult styles of bonsai to successfully realize as it requires special characteristics already available in a given plant which then must be subtly enhanced by the designer. The tree was collected in 2018 potted in spring 2019 and. In this episode bjorn discusses aspects of literati or bunjin bonsai design utilizing a collected virginia pine from east tennessee.
It s almost assumed that wire is used when styling a pine. Murrayana which i collected in the fall of 2013. They were wired for the first time one year ago and are now ready for decandling.