Shonin Bonsai
We take the same trees we use for normal bonsai and make then even smaller.
Shonin bonsai. The most commonly known are mame 5 15 cm 2 6 inch shohin 13 20 cm 5 8 inch chiu 41 91 cm 16 36 inch and dai 76 122 cm 30 48 inch. Shohin bonsai is the art of tiny bonsai tree training. Shohin bonsai with their small size and limited structures offer this challenge. The course covers a wide range of topics including bonsai and shohin bonsai maintenance styling techniques soil mixtures pot selection and display.
What are shohin bonsai shohin bonsai are typically under 10 inches from the soil to the top of the tree. First of all their small pots dry out much quicker. To me they are more difficult not just because they are harder to grow in very small pots but because the limited number of usable elements force the artist to become very careful and deliberate with how they build the tree s structure. Demanding that the bonsai artist take a second look bringing the tree back in its previous form or adding a different.
Shohin and mame bonsai care is more demanding than maintenance of your other bonsai. Shohin bonsai small trees collected in nature ones first image when thinking of yamadori bonsai is of a large tree discovered in the mountains with an ancient twisted trunk shari and jin and beautiful cultivated foliage. Shohin and mame bonsai trees 小品盆栽 豆盆栽 shohin means a small thing indicating it being even smaller than bonsai. Sometimes even one new leaf can make a difference in design therefore they need more frequent pruning.
These trees usually grow to be six to eight inches tall. Shohin miniature trees bonsai are classified in sizes. One does not at first think of a yamadori shohin bonsai. Mame bonsai a sub category of shohin are bonsai under 4 inches from the soil to the top of the tree.
It s also more difficult to see pests unless you pick the trees up individually. Bonsai and especially shohin bonsai outgrowths their form after some time. The term shohin means tiny thing in japanese. Although no exact rules were ever formulated a tree is considered to be a shohin bonsai when under 25 cm 10 tall.
The shohin bonsai course is the online tutorial by bonsai empire and shohin expert morten albek.