Shohin Bonsai Forest

If we use our bonsai not just for competition and work but simply studying them they will bring peace.

Shohin bonsai forest. Shohin deutzia gracilis or this small flowering grass below is for the bonsai display or just to enjoy. The calm and peacefulness found in the forest can be found in bonsai. Shohin and mame bonsai trees 小品盆栽 豆盆栽 shohin means a small thing indicating it being even smaller than bonsai. Small forest with field maples acer campestre.

Shohin chinese elm forest 9 months 3 weeks ago 52319 philipjohansen wrote. In the bonsai collection i have a japanese maple forest i started restyling a year ago. Two examples included in this free video from morten albek shohin bonsai europ. It was bought as a single clump and needed in my opinion to be divided.

A forest is a group of trees of one species growing as they would in nature. Although no exact rules were ever formulated a tree is considered to be a shohin bonsai when under 25 cm 10 tall. Shohin forest step two after a full season of growth during 2019 it is now time to put attention into the development of the ramification. Sometimes bonsai is about spectacular huge trees and at other times it is the beauty found in simplicity and understatement.

A summer flowering shitakusa needletip blue eyed grass sisyrinchium mucronatum. Creating a shohin bonsai forest may seem an impossible job. I am planning on making a landscape forest with 4 chinese elm shohins. The forests of field maples acer campestre have settled well in the pots and i am now pruning the leaves to make a tighter canopy and smaller branches.

But im not sure what pot i should use. The trees need to be placed together in a nice composition in a shallow container while staying under the 20cm 8 inches size restriction of shohin bonsai. Bonsai live and a bonsai forest shohin bonsai europe wolf s birding and bonsai blog. Yose ue bonsai style most bonsai are single plants in a variety of different styles that resemble old trees growing in their native habitat.

Trees used for a shohin forest have to be selected at a young age to be able to train them in the pot from the very beginning. Set up a bonsai on a table and begin just watching it.