Cascade Juniper Bonsai Styles
These natural catastrophes will twist the tree downward in nature and so it is with a bonsai in the cascade form.
Cascade juniper bonsai styles. There are five basic bonsai styles with many variations. At the end of the video i review the thought process involved while styling the tree and how you might apply it to your own trees. Creating a cascade bonsai is intended to reflect the shape of a tree that has had a difficult time yet perseveres. Slant style hinoki cypress.
At the end of the video i review the thought process involved while styling the tree and how you might apply it to your own trees. The first five are the foundation for all other shapes. Formal upright informal upright slant semi cascade and cascade are where to start. Driftwood style sierra juniper juniperus occidentalis var.
Over the years many styles to classify bonsai trees have been advanced closely resembling circumstances in nature. The five basic bonsai styles. Mar 25 2020 explore gpollheim s board bonsai cascade kengai on pinterest. Styles shapes and forms explained.
If you are a. Then come many more exotic bonsai shapes such as literati five basic bonsai styles. Included in the list below are the japanese words for each style. If you can picture a tree growing on the side of a cliff spilling off the mountain this is what cascade is meant to mimic.
Juniper bonsai styling in this video i style semi cascade juniper. Nov 22 2016 a semi cascade style bonsai is one in which the major cascading feature extends below the top rim of the pot but does not extend below the bottom of. You typically see this bonsai in a tall skinny pot that is used to raise the bonsai off the ground to give it room to cascade. Still the styles are important to gain a basic understanding of shapes and should serve as.
This pot shape is also. It is best to imagine a shape that was formed due to the crushing weight of heavy winter snows land slides or mud slides. In this video i style semi cascade juniper. See more ideas about bonsai bonsai tree bonsai garden.
Australis twin trunk style smoothleaf elm ulmus minor styles can be grouped based on different criteria such as the trunk orientation or the number of trunks in the bonsai. Forest style black hills spruce. The cascade style is one of the most popular bonsai styles used today.