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Bonsai are sometimes marketed or promoted as house plants, but few of the traditional bonsai species can thrive or even survive inside a typical house. Most bonsai are grown outdoors. The best guideline to identifying a suitable growing environment for a bonsai is its native hardiness. If the bonsai grower can closely replicate the full year's ...
A bonsai display presents one or more bonsai specimens in a way that allows a viewer to see all the important features of the bonsai from the most advantageous position. That position emphasizes the bonsai's defined "front", which is designed into all bonsai.
[8] [9] Bonsai Mirai is a bonsai studio and nursery that hosts classes, trains apprentices, sells to collectors, and boards and maintains clients' bonsai. The location was chosen because of its temperate, wet climate and the availability of yamadori, trees growing in the wild that are suitable for bonsai. [5] It houses over 800 bonsai. [10]
The Magician: the Bonsai Art of Kimura 2 was released in 2007 by Stone Lantern. [13] A Spanish translation, Masahiko Kimura: el técnico mágico del bonsai actual was published in 1988 by Ediciones Tyris, S.A., His 9-video 4-hour "Kimura Master Class" course was made available by Bonsai Empire in 2020.
Although most bonsai trees are planted directly into the soil, there are styles describing trees planted on rock. For example, the root-over rock style is deshojo (出猩々), and the style in which trees are rooted wholly within (atop or on the sides of) a large rock is ishizuki. [4]: 86–91 Multiple trunks.
A bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) forest bonsai on display at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum, U.S. National Arboretum. In training since 1988. A suiseki at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum, U.S. National Arboretum. In addition to the bonsai trees, the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum has a world-class collection of viewing stones.
As with all aesthetic rules or guidelines, the various accepted styles will guide a bonsai designer, but are not completely deterministic. The species of the bonsai, the age of the tree when it began bonsai training, the tree's pre-existing shape and structure, even the bonsai artist's training and preferences, strongly affect the shape of the ...
Manual tools like graving chisels, burins, and blades can carve detail into the surface of the jins or shari, since real or simulated wood grain is an important characteristic of deadwood on a bonsai. Recent years have seen bonsai practitioners adopt powered tools for deadwood work, particularly small rotary tools for carving and grinding.