Japanese Tree Shaping
The japanese art of cutting trees into cloud shapes adds a zen like beauty to any garden.
Japanese tree shaping. Ryan neil has spent over a decade working to master the japanese art of bonsai. As he shapes and forms these miniature trees he describes how closely intert. In this video i show you the process of deciding the shape of the tree. There are a few different methods used by the various artists to shape their trees which share a common heritage with other artistic horticultural and agricultural practices such as pleaching bonsai espalier and topiary and employing some.
My japanese juniper has been growing since the spring and needs to pruned and pinched back. And he was hooked by the way gardeners there spend hours shaping their trees into gorgeous billowy. Similar practices exist in other cultures including the chinese tradition of penzai or penjing from which the art originated and the miniature living landscapes of vietnamese hòn. How do you decide on the shape of a maple bonsai.