The Art Of Shaping A Bonsai Tree
The japanese loanword bonsai has become an umbrella term in english attached to many.
The art of shaping a bonsai tree. The goal is to create a bonsai that resembles nature as close as possible. Published on jul 11 2020 descriptionbonsai is a japanese art form which utilizes cultivation techniques to produce in containers small trees that mimic the shape and scale of full size trees. Though this will depend on the type of tree you have. The japanese tradition dates back over a thousand years.
In bonsai this movement can be created with the trunk line branch direction foliage shape or even the position of the container. Bonsai is the japanese practice of growing miniature trees in small containers. The art of bonsai lies primarily in the grower s ability to shape the tree in order to contain and direct its growth. Rules is probably the worst word of the three to describe what most artists do to create bonsai but it is the word that most people use.
Essentially there are two different techniques. Pruning bonsai without doubt the most important way to train a bonsai is to prune it on a regular basis. By arranging the design components and elements in certain way can create a force of movement or control the direction the eye of the viewer travels along the visual path of the design. The rules of bonsai by brent walston introduction as in all arts bonsai usually conforms to a set of conventions guidelines or rules.
Pruning is crucial in keeping trees miniaturized as well as to shape them. Similar practices exist in other cultures including the chinese tradition of penzai or penjing from which the art originated and the miniature living landscapes of vietnamese hòn non bộ. However it can take up to 5 years depending on the species of tree for a bonsai tree to grow from a seed into a full grown tree. For this reason learning how to trim a bonsai is an essential skill for any grower interested in this method.
Maintenance pruning to maintain and refine the existing shape of a bonsai and structural pruning which involves more rigorous pruning to give a tree its basic shape or style.