Scots Pine Bonsai
As pinus sylvestris ages it drops it s lower branches.
Scots pine bonsai. It began as a one gallon pot seedling in 1970 which cost me 5. For bonsai pines are especially popular and many people even regard them as the most typical bonsai trees. My fellow bonsai artist at sbr3 samuel brierley studying the tree. The tree developed nicely into a masterpiece specimen in 2008.
Each pine bonsai has a beautiful distinctive shape with outward and upward growth. The older darker needles on this branch grew last year. Each branch has a dense mass of needles growing from its tip. This is the same bonsai i posted a video of a couple of days i ve combined a short section of the first video to the one i have taken today.
This gives the tree a beautiful canopied shape with little effort on the cultivator s part. This stunning yamadori scots pine pinus sylvestris was collected by tomas gramming from a bog near gothenburg in 2015. The thin green needles of the scots pine are similar to black pines. Pine trees are evergreen coniferous resinous trees with needles that appear in bundles of two to five.
However these pines bud easier and fast compared to the black pine. I ve now done some had pruning and opened up the. A two needled pine greatly underrated as a bonsai bonsai. This bonsai is the common scots pine not a special variety.
The bark of older pine trees becomes scaly or flaky. In britain grows wild mainly in scotland but is the most widely distributed conifer in the world. For fans of pines this is a good alternative to the black pine without requiring regular candle maintenance. Widely indigenous across western europe and into asia.
To correctly prune and pluck the tree is methodically worked over branch by branch. Also known as the scots pine pinus sylvestris is a great pine bonsai species because it naturally takes on the shape that bonsai cultivators must work hard to create in other trees. A scots pine bonsai. I like scots pine pinus sylvestrisand also many of it s different cultivars.
Scots pine pinus sylvestris considered to be scotlands national tree and one of our indigenous trees scotland.