BONSAI FROM THE WILD

Bonsai Tree-Taken at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum


BONSAI FROM THE WILD

Bonsai Tree-Taken at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum


In years gone by many people in Japan used to take themselves off to the mountains in spring to find suitable bonsai,and they often brought home with them some really lovely specimens.
before collecting from the wild you should gain the permission of the landowner if you intend removing any material,and make sure you are up-to-date with information regarding protected species.Your chances of successfully replanting your find will be good if you go collecting at the beginning of spring;plants will not have begun to grow again and so can still tolerate a change of site quite well.Take with you a small spade,a sharp knife or secateurs,a couple of plastic boxes,newspaper and some water.That way you'll be able to dig up your specimen with as much root and soil attached as possible,and be able to wrap it in damp newspaper to stop it drying out and get it home safely.

Bonsai from the wild


Seedlings about 10-20cm high are suitable material and should present no problems for further cultivation as they still have a compact ball of roots and can be taken out of the ground easily.
At home plant your young tree in loose soil in the garden or put it in a large pot with a good drainage layer and a mixture of equal parts peat/sand.
After one or two years the roots should be cut and the tree repotted into a bonsai dish.

Maple Bonsai Tree, Acer campestre

Bonsai -Miniature landscapes(Saikei)

Bonsai -Miniature landscapes(Saikei)


Saikei are miniature landscapes planted in shallow dishes to represent a piece of natural scenery-perhaps a strip of river,a waterfall in the mountains,a pine grove by the sea or a deciduous wood with pathways and streams.Saikei have a long history if we include among the art those miniature landscapes depicted on thirteenth and fourteenth century scroll paintings.The art of forming saikei was rediscovered recently by Japanese bonsai master,who developed the art further.In the West,saikei is becoming better known and has attracted much admiration from bonsai enthusiasts.

Bonsai -Miniature landscapes(Saikei)


Saikei are different from bonsai group plantings mainly in that not only trees are used but also rocks and various types of earth-sometimes even tiny houses,bridges,animals and figures,too.Good saikei formations work because the three basic elements,trees,rocks and earth combine in a harmonious way.

Bonsai -Miniature landscapes(Saikei)


Bonsai -Miniature landscapes(Saikei)

Bonsai Final Form Idea

Bonsai Final Form Idea


Any tree you want to create in Bonsai needs your idea - the idea of the final form. Consider some aesthetic rules. If the two branches grow opposite one another in the same amount of wood in relation to the desired shape, remove one. It also normally cut all the lateral branches that grow vertically or down, or intersected with the timber. The cut is carried out with the concave scissors. The wound will be healed so beautiful and will be less noticeable.
To allow the new shoots of non-developed, the loss of tree form and the branches become too fat. Many of internal branches may die, because the growing energy is directed at the top and external branches. Therefore, we have new shoots regularly cut or removed. How many times do that, depending on the type of tree. Some grows only once in spring, while others all to late fall. How much and how it shortening, depends on the type and the desired shape. New shoots do not cut if we want the new branch and not cut as long as it does not achieve the desired thickness. Regular pruning with good wiring allow diversification and branching, which develop small leaves or needles. Flowering types circumcise only after flowering.

Bonsai Final Form Idea

Bonsai Tree in Apartment ?

Bonsai Tree


Japanese bring Bonsai in the apartment only on special occasions, may be an important visit, and displayed on specially prepared place.
Bonsai is not a house plant. Above all, except on special occasions, it does not belong into apartment. Bonsai is a tree that was planted in a container, except in size, however, is in no way different from their brothers in the nature. How long would larch or beech survived in central heated homes? A week or two maybe, in winter they would be counted an hour ...

Bonsai Tree

Fertilization of Bonsai

Fertilization of Bonsai

Even fertilization of bonsai is very important. In a small container is not much land, and although bonsai most of the time starve to slow growth, they certainly need some food.
In principle we use two types of fertilizers:
-on the basis of nitrogen for leaf growth, adding at the spring and summer
-on the basis of potassium, which promotes the growth of leaves, flowers and fruits, which adding in autumn to strong trunk and branches.
Bonsai fertilizer:
-summer- on 14 days
-winter-1 monthly


Fertilization of Bonsai

Bonsai Education

Bonsai Education

You have to look after the needs of plants, since they are alive, and for its existence needs proper care.
For success in the development of trees is necessary to take into account the natural forms of trees and their growth.
Bonsai will look nicer and more natural, when looking at seedling and take advantage of its strengths; it can not be any force in any situation.
In education, it is important to us represents the fun, relaxation, not competition. Ideally, for every move you make to take time for reflection. Trees grow very slowly so it is necessary in bringing great deal of patience. To make a real visible progress can be expected only a few years.
In urban environments, which lack the natural environment, trees will be issued a secret of its growth, the time and need a clear eye.


Bonsai Education


Bonsai Education

Bonsai Trees Presentation

Bonsai Trees Presentation

Even before the year 1000 found epic from the Sung dynasty, which describe the pun-sai, and offer the treasures of literature on how to build them.
During the period of peace, which we know as the period of Ch'ing dynasty (1644-1911), both as pun-sai and pun-ching became a hobby, not only in aristocratic circles, but all the layers of Chinese society.
However, the Chinese were not the one who presented bonsai the art to west. This was done by Japanese for the first time in Paris at the World Fair in 1878, and later in London in 1909.
In Japan they were likely bring by Buddhist monks between the tenth and eleventh centuries. To them represents the sacred objects,' green path to heaven ', from there a link between God and human.
During the Yuan dynasty (1280 - 1368), Japanese government ministers and merchants brought home bonsai as a gift from the Chinese and we know that around the year 1644 Chu Shun-sui, the Chinese official, came on the Japanese before the government Manchu’s and brought with him the whole his collection of literature on education bonsais. It's a substantial knowledge of the arts bonsais was crucial to the expansion of the arts in Japan. This time, Japan has also developed a branch of their art and their bonsai design, which was reserved for the aristocratic classes, Samurai, and has become a hobby for all classes until the end of the last century.


Bonsai Trees Presentation

Bonsai Trees-Forms of Bonsai

Bonsai Trees-Forms of Bonsai

Today's Chinese bonsai “masters” strictly segregated 'pun-sai' and 'pun-ching. For many the word 'pun-jing' represents both forms of bonsais. The word 'pun-sai', consisting of the same characters as the Japanese word 'bonsai' means and the tree planted in a container, and without the province, while the 'pun-ching' means a tree planted in a container with the landscape. The art of pun-ching goes back deep into history in the initial period of Han dynasty, around 206 BC. – 220, when the Chinese artists in the creation of the provinces began to create miniature variants of its famous rock garden. Legend says that the Jiang-feng was endowed with magic power, which has allowed to magic small landscapes on the plate. Provinces were very detailed with the rocks, mountains, trees, rivers, houses, people and animals.
In the same period as that pun-ching, which is still a very popular form in Chinese, also the first record of the arts pun-sai in the Ch'in Dynasty (221 - 206 BC). Ton Guen-ming, a well known poet and high official was tired of government affairs, withdrew to the quiet countryside, where he began cultivating chrysanthemums in pots. This was the beginning of the cultivation of plants in pots, which led to the subsequent zooming trees. Only 200 years later we see in the figures from the T'ang period cypress, plum, or the bamboo all growing in containers.


Bonsai Trees-Forms of Bonsai


Bonsai Trees-Forms of Bonsai

Bonsai Arts

Bonsai Arts

Bonsai arts have developed in the Far East, where the term represents the harmony between heaven and earth, between man and nature. Its spiritual values derived from the Eastern philosophy of life, which tends to harmony between man and nature - a harmony that is achieved when the apparent sympathy with the procedure fully inclusive growth and development. The best example of this is certainly bringing bonsais.
Fan of bonsais will certainly conscientiously care for their trees and regularly reviewed. Through the re-feel the rhythm of the seasons and nourishes deep within themselves, the power of creation, which establishes and reduced our small trees. Education bonsai requires much care and attention, but us as a prize to give tranquility of thought, and the internal concentration.
Probably there is no man, who would not have been impressed over these perfect small trees which grow in containers and in each of the smallest details, with the exception of height, reminiscent of its larger brothers in the wild. For their education through need a few skills, but will anyone who has some luck in plants, given the great satisfaction in bringing bonsai. Miniature trees were first planted in containers and Chinese Bonsai is still part of Chinese culture. Bonsai has a place in each of the Chinese community, even beyond the borders of China, in places such as Taiwan, Thailand, Hong Kong and Singapore.


Bonsai Arts

Bonsai Tree-Field Grower

Bonsai Tree-Field Grower

How to get the first tree that will someday become a beautiful tree in a beautiful container? There are several ways. If you have money and just want to have Bonsai at home, you simply buy (watch for the internal and external). Other variants are seedlings from the nurseries, cuttings, seedlings from seeds, and of course, adequate extraction of plants from the wild - yamadori. The tree from the nature is required of course of being transferred somewhere. You can plant in a larger container, miscellaneous materials and forms. It is only to have the container of good drainage holes. Let a more simple way, of course, transplants in the garden or field. This is also a way of sustaining it. Indeed, it is necessary to dig up and plaids but its worth of. Tree may have an initial shape in the box and then after a few years, transplanted in the training tank, and from there into the right bonsai container.


Bonsai Tree-Field Grower

Rules for Trunk and Nebari Phylum

Rules for Trunk and Nebari Phylum

Rules for Trunk and Nebari Phylum:
Relationships between trunk height and width should be at bonsai tree ratio 1:3 to 1:12, but we steep to the ideal ratio of 1:6, depending mainly on style.
Trunk should be slightly tilted towards viewer, that is achieved the effect of perspective as the observation of the trees in nature (but can not give looks like letter C).
Base of trunk is to be threatened in the roots and give us the feeling that it is firmly anchored
Roots should be evenly spaced around the trunk.
Roots should not be seen directly against viewer.
Top should be inclined to viewer.
Trunk should be uniformly thin, as it rises.
In the formal and the informal upright style should be the top exactly of the base.
In an informal upright style should not be too many "S" curves.
As the tree rises should be the curves closer together.
The tree should have only one peak.


Rules for Trunk and Nebari Phylum

Rules For Designing Bonsai

Rules For Designing Bonsai

As in all the arts also in bonsaistic, there are some agreements, guidelines or rules. In essence it is a rule for the worst term for what most bonsai lovers take into account in formulating bonsais, but this is a word that most bonsai lovers also apply. Rules for formulating bonsai are not inflexible and often violate the light of the circumstances, but they are excellent guidelines for the creation of beautiful bonsai and are valuable for any beginner. Rules facilitate our decision what to do and how.
These rules mostly come from Japanese culture of the creation of bonsai and are shaped in the centuries since Bonsai home is in Japan. The rules are analysis of what to do and what does not work in creating bonsai. Almost everyone with the help of compliance with these rules create a decent Bonsai, but it is superior to the products needed natural talent, inspiration and experience, as well as observance the rules.


Rules For Designing Bonsai

Bonsai Trees-What is Bonsai?

Bonsai Trees-What is Bonsai?

What is Bonsai? For most, this is only BON - container in the SAI - tree. BONSAI in Japanese means tree in a container, which is compared with the trees in the nature of proportional smaller copy. And not only that. Bonsai is an art, collaboration with nature, meditation. We need to know the requirements of the plants in nature; we need to be gardeners, architects and philosophers. Our ally is the time, which can not be overtaken. Rare are the shortcuts on the path of creating. They sometimes get experienced growers and masters, but always with the fear to lose, to destroy lives, a tree, the idea makes sense. The oldest bonsai in Japan are over 600 years old and have the status of the national treasure. Specimens that are transmitted from generation to generation are of inestimable value.


Bonsai Trees-What is Bonsai?

Some Bonsai Forms

Upright formal form

Upright formal form
This is the most simple form of bonsai. It has a vertical straight trunk, which is uniformly surrounded by branches, parallel to the ground. Branches have long, shorter towards the top, however, to create a branching conical. Appropriate Plants: maple, beech, hornbeam, spruce.


Upright spontaneous form

Upright spontaneous form
This format is very common in nature and the most appropriate for beginners. Similar is the formal upright form, but the trunk is more or less bent.
Appropriate Plants: maple, birch, beech, hornbeam, apple trees, oak, spruce, pine...


Windward (Sloping) form

Windward (Sloping) form
This is not inclined planted tree, but trees with more or less inclined to one side of timber, where all the branches growing in one direction, such that the tree was exposed to constant winds in the same direction. Plant it at the very edge of the container, branches, however, beyond the opposite edge.
Suitable plants: birch, larch, willow, pine...