What are the key points for making miniature bonsai? One article explains it clearly

Miniature bonsai is something many people love these days. Some gardening enthusiasts want to make a pot themselves but do not know the specific method. The editor will introduce the making method of miniature bonsai for you, and friends who like it can learn together. In fact, the difficulty of making miniature bonsai is not high; its later care is what is really important.

Miniature bonsai

1. Material selection and styling

For the materials of miniature bonsai, generally choose materials with fine branches and small leaves, easy to survive after potting, peculiar roots and trunks, gorgeous flowers and fruits, and easy to shape, such as five-leaf pine, small-leaf Buddhist pine, fine-leaf holly, Serissa japonica (detailed introduction), asparagus fern (detailed introduction), Japanese bush cherry, etc. You can also dig suitable tree stumps in the wild, shape them, and then plant them. When styling, methods such as palm-fiber tying, lead wire wrapping, and branch bending are commonly used.

2. Potting and care

While shaping, the tree should be transplanted from a clay pot into a purple clay pot or glazed pot. Generally, tall deep cylindrical pots are suitable for cascade style; oval or shallow rectangular pots are suitable for growing straight-trunk or slanting-trunk styles; multi-angled shallow pots are for growing tall-trunk styles; round pots can be used for low, twisted plants. Care after planting: the potting soil should often be kept moist, maintain a suitable temperature in winter, and place it in shade in midsummer. During the growing period, apply thin fertilizer frequently, generally once every 10 days. You can apply decomposed soybean cake, hoof piece water, etc., or apply complete-element compound flower fertilizer.

Key points for making wall-mounted bonsai

Wall-mounted bonsai and key points for making it

         Wall-mounted bonsai is a new type of bonsai artwork produced by bonsai workers who cleverly combine traditional bonsai art with the production techniques and forms of craft artworks such as shell carving and bark painting, and absorb the essence of traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy art.

        Wall-mounted bonsai uses a rectangular marble slab or lightweight metal sheet or three-ply board, five-ply board, or a specially made plastic container as the background to hang on the wall, and on it pastes mountain stones or plants plants. Because it does not occupy tabletop or floor space and its form is very novel, it has an excellent effect in decorating and beautifying rooms and is deeply welcomed by people.

        Wall-mounted bonsai can be divided into wall-mounted landscape bonsai and wall-mounted tree bonsai. The specific key points for making the two types are:

        (1) Wall-mounted landscape bonsai: the shaping method is the same as general landscape bonsai. The flat-and-distant expression method is commonly used. If the background uses a marble slab with natural abstract landscape textures, it is even more ideal. If a metal sheet or three-ply board is used, paint the upper edge with lake-blue paint to imitate the sky and lake water as a distant view treatment. For the materials of the middle view and near view, not only the shape, material thickness, and weight must be considered, but also the fixing and installation of the structure. It is mostly made with stones such as axe-cut stone and sandy accumulated stone. The mountain stones used are thinner than the peaks of general landscape bonsai. Choose smaller pieces to paste or fix with screws in the middle view position; choose appropriately large stones, select the viewing side, and fix them on the bottom board in the same way as the near view. If larger plants need to be arranged, the container can be placed behind the bottom board, holes can be drilled in the bottom board, the plants can pass through the holes, the roots can be planted in the container behind, and the crowns can be in front. If only miniature plants are arranged, small holes can be chiseled in appropriate parts of the mountain stones, culture soil can be placed in the holes for planting, and then decorative items can be arranged according to the artistic conception requirements. Inscriptions of poems and signatures can also be added, making it a living, three-dimensional Chinese painting.

        (2) Wall-mounted tree bonsai: choose tree species that grow slowly, have strong adaptability, beautiful tree posture, and a certain shade tolerance. There are two display forms of wall-mounted tree bonsai. One is to hide the planting pot behind. The method is to chisel a hole in an appropriate part of the pot vessel, and on the back of the pot, slightly below the hole, paste half an unglazed pot or another container. Put culture soil in the pot, let the tree roots pass through the hole and plant them into the unglazed pot. From the front, only the beautiful tree posture and styling are seen, and the pot vessel is not exposed. The other is to fully reveal the pot vessel and the tree posture on the picture surface. The method is to choose a fine small tree bonsai that has already been formed in cascade style or curved-trunk style, and on a background board of three-ply or five-ply board of suitable size, saw a hole at an appropriate position according to the shape of the bonsai pot so that the pot can just be placed in it, exposing at most about 1/3 on the front of the board, and fix the pot on the back of the board. The background board should be painted white with mixed paint as a foil.