Just be sure to consult the appropriate , to ensure it stays healthy throughout the training process! Containers Because of the movement, single trunk literati usually are planted in a shallow round or oval container.
NextBunjin celebrates the uniqueness and diversity of tree life.
The only thing that might give pause is the relatively heavy, robust crown. Or taken to real extremes, this "painful" twisting could even achieve a comical effect; a sort of slapstick tree. Had these discussions 50 years ago, and you know, it has not changed much.
While this carving is good, it is easy to see it is manmade.
Bunjin isn't for Bonsai beginners and requires a good familiarity with the use of tools to train your tree into deliberate shapes. Also controlling the amount of fertilizing and watering so its trunk will not lose its grace and delicacy. It is a dream, an abstract.
Bunjin means literary man, man of letters or literati.
Although bunjin sometimes reflects the bizarre and unusual, tieing your tree in a knot is insufficient grounds for dubbing it a literati.
NextBy that I mean the key, outstanding and pervasive aspect of the design must be a line; usually the line described by the trunk of the tree.
Tilt the tree on blocks for a better view of the movement or in order to have the tree bow toward you.
NextA Bunjin tree could have a downright painful appearance, twisted in ways no plant ever normally achieves.
This dichotomy is one of the alluring elements of Bunjin.