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This juniper makes extensive use of both jin (deadwood branches) and shari (trunk deadwood). Bonsai are carefully styled to maintain miniaturization, to suggest age, and to meet the artist's aesthetic goals. Tree styling also occurs in a larger scale in other practices like topiary and niwaki. In bonsai, however, the artist has close control ...
Indoor bonsai is the cultivation of an attractive, healthy plant in the artificial environment of indoors rather than using an outdoor climate, as may occur in traditional bonsai. [2] Indoor penjing is the cultivation of miniature landscapes in a pot or tray, possibly with rocks, bonsai trees, and ground covers, and sometimes with small objects ...
A Dwarf Japanese Juniper (Juniperus procumbens 'Nana') bonsai on display. Multiple deadwood styles have been used on this tree. Deadwood bonsai techniques are methods in the Japanese art of bonsai (cultivation of miniature trees in containers) that create, shape, and preserve dead wood on a living bonsai tree. They enhance the illusion of age ...
Dwarf Japanese Garden Juniper Juniperus californica: California Juniper [8] Juniperus chinensis: ... Indoor Bonsai (Reprinted 1987 ed.). New York: Blandford Press.
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Juniperus chinensis 'Shimpaku' (the shimpaku juniper) is a dwarf, irregular vase-shaped form of the Chinese juniper, Juniperus chinensis. Originally native to Japan, they were first collected in the 1850s in Japan. It is a slow-growing evergreen shrub that typically grows to 3 ft (0.9 m) tall and 5 ft (1.5 m) wide over a period of 10 years. [1]
Juniperus procumbens being trained as a bonsai. Its contorted trunk lines add interest and drama to the artistic composition. A bonsai specimen of 'Nana' Several cultivars have been selected, the most widely grown being 'Nana', a slow-growing procumbent plant, [3] [5] which in the UK has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden ...
Historical Bonsai marker 201 Goshin (courtesy of US National Arboretum) Goshin ( Japanese : 護神 , "protector of the spirit") [ 1 ] is a bonsai created by John Y. Naka . It is a forest planting of eleven Foemina junipers ( Juniperus chinensis 'Foemina'), the earliest of which Naka began training into bonsai in 1948.