Bamboo Bonsai Forest - Bonsai Nature | Ideas for Bonsai

How to create a bonsai forest planting.

Bamboo bonsai forest. They are clumping bamboo and form a substantial clump when conditions are favorable. This tough as nails evergreen has fine lacy foliage which turns bronze and red in winter. It all started in 2001 when my wife gave me a bonsai for my birthday. First of all suitable bonsai plants need to be selected.

Instead of creating and displaying a single tree with a forest we create a complete landscape. Wonderful forest style bonsai by bonsai boon. More than the number of trees it is the way they are planted which gives it an illusion of a forest. Use trees mostly growing upright as the composition could look unnatural when using different shapes of trees.

This gives a feeling of depth to the whole design. With a little online research and a single book i was able to keep this first tree alive. A group planting should consist of different sizes of trees a few tall ones for in the middle and several smaller ones to plant on the sides. Enjoy viewing seven stunning examples of bonsai forests.

Bamboo bonsai making is very easy because bamboo easy to grow and easy to caring. Chilean bamboo is a very important plant since it controls the patterns of forest dynamics. It is native to eastern asia from the himalaya east to japan. The forest style in japanese yose ue is one of the most popular styles of bonsai.

Heirloom variety baobob tree equatorial or bonsai adansonia digitata 3 seeds pack an ancient variety of tree that grows to 31 requires an equatorial environment that we do not have in america but it is excellent for bonsai growing. Heavenly bamboo nandina domestica firepower nandina domestica commonly known as nandina heavenly bamboo or sacred bamboo is a suckering shrub in the barberry family. In this video i am showing you how to make bonsai chinese bamboo. They grow up to a height of 8m or 26 feet.

It impedes the regeneration of tree species so that they don t grow too hurry and die off from the cold. They grow hallow native africans will often use them as shelter. Having a triangular pattern to the whole design is the most common approach for forest style bonsai.