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Straight-trunk bonsai creation techniques: crafting a majestic form that stands tall and reaches for the sky
Straight-trunk bonsai, as the name suggests, features an upright main trunk that branches at a certain height, imitating the tall, upright posture of trees in nature that stand between heaven and earth. Since straight-trunk bonsai requires an upright main trunk, the focus of styling is on the branches and foliage...
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30 sq m rooftop terrace garden creation: netizens say this is the garden of their dreams
A few years ago I moved into a house with a 30 sq m rooftop terrace, and I thought of growing flowers. In fact, this flowery world is just as complex and varied as the real world! Here they either brave the frost and snow, or cleverly dodge the wind and rain; either compete in splendor, or remain silently wordless...
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Illustrated Basics of Bonsai Tree Creation
Tree bonsai is commonly known as stump bonsai because old tree stumps are mostly used as the main material and focal feature. For the convenience of international exchange and unified systematic classification, we collectively refer to it as tree bonsai. The sources of bonsai stumps mainly include field collection, artificial cultivation, and the use of...
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Trident maple bonsai creation: Clever use of the approach grafting method to add roots
Bonsai artists are a bunch of obsessive perfectionists. If a bonsai has even a tiny flaw, it will feel like a fishbone stuck in their throat, leaving them unable to eat or sleep, and they simply have to make it perfect according to their own wishes. This small trident maple specimen is a typical Japanese-style...
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The Metamorphosis of a Multi-Trunk Old Privet Stump: The Complete Process of Bonsai Creation
Lately I've been talking about this bonsai artist who makes privet bonsai. He digs up old privet stumps everywhere. I reckon he'll spend his whole life just playing with privets. One time it's from a friend's house, another time from a neighbor's. This one, like the one I mentioned before...
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The Metamorphosis of an Old Privet Stump: A Westerner's Pure-Technique Bonsai Creation
In Europe there is an active group of bonsai artists, and these people are pure technicians, creating bonsai entirely through human creativity. Take this privet, for example: so many trunks, yet the stump base is really quite good, around ten trunks, but they grow too compactly, not...
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A Detailed Guide to Bonsai Creation and Daily Care Methods
Jade leaf, also known as purslane tree, or silver ginkgo tree, commonly called "golden branch jade leaf", scientific name Portulacaria afra Jacq (the purslane tree from Africa), English name Elephant Bush (the useless shrub from Africa), is a succulent evergreen shrub of the purslane family, purslane genus...
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Exquisite Entryway Garden Creation Techniques, Just Follow Along
A garden designed between the entry door and the living room door, similar to the concept of a foyer, is an entryway garden; it serves as a connecting transition between the entry door and the living room. The original design intention of the entryway garden was to realize people's dream of bringing a garden into the home...
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Chinese juniper bonsai creation: A master's skillful hands give an old tree a complete makeover
It's been a while since I told a story about Graham and his bonsai, so today I'll tell another one. A couple of days ago I happened to discover that this guy is also a skilled yamadori collector. When he has free time, he goes up into the mountains with his two buddies to dig up trees, and when they dig up more than they can handle, they sell some...
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How can bonsai creation truly follow nature as its teacher?
Nature as teacher, following creation: the so-called "nature" and "creation" encompass all things in the world. Bonsai is precisely the artistic summary and artistic reproduction of famous mountains and rivers and ancient wondrous trees. In creating bonsai, the most important thing is to have hills and valleys, forests and springs in one's heart, and only then can there be "...
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