How to Turn a Messy Pine Stump into a Beautiful Bonsai? A Styling Tutorial

The most important thing in bonsai is the design concept; it matters more than the starting point and the techniques. Before we begin, we should break free from the year-after-year timeline, the framework of New Year's Eve, and even the habit of starting by digging up a clump, always stubbornly waiting until New Year's Eve.

First, identify how the plant grows: the branches will be lush, and some may be nearly withered. Cut off the branches at the base and the twigs. A bonsai built within the large space of a big moon gives people a feeling of spaciousness.

The focus of melancholy: generally speaking, for slow-growing trees like this, when we make a bonsai we want it to look unrefined and dry, so we should incorporate the sparse foliage and the bare branches into the rich and strong areas; on the one hand, for elegance, and on the other hand, for better development of the trunk. Clean away the dead branches of the dead wood.

To be more productive, we can imitate the shapes of these ancient trees to keep them stable, and the process will be long, but the result is very beautiful. The main approach is subtraction in bonsai, supplemented by addition. Subtraction is removing overly dense branches and removing leaf-bearing branches, so the plant looks fresher; the design ideas of bonsai and ink-wash painting are interconnected. This kind of contrast gives a very good visual impression; the commonly used extended branch, widely adopted aluminum wire, after being wrapped around the extended branch, can be bent at will, popular without a bit of beating around the bush, gradually becoming somewhat winding. In order to avoid breakage. In addition, assuming some places are too blank, they can be drilled and grafted.

In short, there is no fixed rule. The most important thing is to draft a plan yourself. Then, according to the plan, we should stop training.