Raft Style Bonsai
Best viewed after leaves have fallen.
Raft style bonsai. About a year later the tree was found in a bad condition after being run over by a car. Outright amazing raft style bonsai connected by same root system the ramification is well developed main branches break intro a network of smaller branching then dense twigginess. The root system was seriously damaged. By bonsailearningcenter feb 25 2016 bonsai learning articles.
Simply because you will need to bend and push things around quite a bit when you re creating your raft style bonsai you ll be working with the tender limbs and trying to position them and move them where you want them as much as possible creating less work in the long run. Instead of digging the tree out after being found it was initially chopped back and left to recover in the forest. The raft and sinuous styles are characterized by a single trunk that is growing along the ground with three or more trunks rising from it. This case study shows a hawthorn found in a forest and trained into a raft style bonsai tree.