Shari Bonsai

A great way of creating drama in a bonsai is through the creation of jins stripped branches and shari carved trunks.

Shari bonsai. In order to enhance the jins and shari a chemical pesticide named lime sulfur also lime sulphur is applied. Shari is the japanese word for any exposed dead wood on a trunk of a bonsai. A practical guide to applying lime sulphur to bonsai to whiten deadwood this is a juniper trunk that has recently had its bark removed to create a shari. The live vein of growth is on the right hand side of the trunk and its edge has been sealed with wound sealant for the purposes of helping the edge of the live wood heal.

Creating a shari in this movie taiga urushibata explains how to create a shari deadwood part of the trunk on a bonsai. I m currently planning to graft roots on the tree in a year or two am preparing the scions now. Shari 360 bonsai ciprés piramidal bunjin duration. Trabajos en madera muerta 2016 duration.

A jin is a bare stripped part of branch and a shari is a barkless part of trunk. A small shari usually runs vertically on or near the front of the trunk shari have little aesthetic value at the rear of the trunk where they are rarely viewed and are obscured by branch growth. Deadwood on bonsai jin shari and uro creating deadwood on bonsai in the form of jin or shari can enhance the tree s character significantly. Bonsai de acebuche olivo.

I don t think i ve posted a close up of the shari so i ll have to do that in a future post. The brief version of the story behind the shari is that the tree had dried out or been overly root pruned before i acquired it. The exposed sections of dead wood on the trunk give the impression of a struggle against the elements such as wind ice or even light ning strikes. Bonsai space 89 091 views.

A shari is deadwood on the main trunk of the bonsai.