Tiny Forests Bonsai - Bonsai Nature | Ideas for Bonsai

Use trees mostly growing upright as the composition could look unnatural when using different shapes of trees.

Tiny forests bonsai. Smallest bonsai trees 1 smallest bonsai an acer momiji. 2 a tiny little bonsai tree by eric sin. This is the smallest bonsai tree that i know of with a pending guinness record. The forest style in japanese yose ue is one of the most popular styles of bonsai.

The reason is because it is difficult to form the ideal ramification structure and the leaves size in good proportion to resemble a mature tree in nature. A tiny little japanese bonsai tree bearing fruits. 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. 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.

Several cuttings potted together can make a raft style or clump. 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. Enjoy viewing seven stunning examples of bonsai forests. A shallow bonsai pot some soil lava rock or pebbles for mulch and of course your plant.

In time this will give the impression of a tiny forest in a pot. 3 shohin crabapple by katsumi. Instead of creating and displaying a single tree with a forest we create a complete landscape. Creating the smallest bonsai trees as we all know the basic concept in bonsai is to make a mature tree in small size.

Creating a shohin bonsai forest may seem an impossible job. So the smaller the bonsai is the more difficult to make. Essentially bonsai is performed by constant pruning and pinching of the new growth each time forcing more branching.