How to prune a tamarisk bonsai? These pruning techniques are a must to master

Tamarisk, also known as Guanyin willow or Sanchun willow. It is highly adaptable, tolerant of salt, waterlogging, cold, drought and pruning, takes shape quickly, and generally survives with easy care.

Its branches are fine and its leaves small, and its branches droop gracefully like a weeping willow; its trunk is like iron, aged and peculiar, with the character of pine and cypress; it blooms 3 times a year, with a fairly long flowering period, and the pink flowers covering the branches make it look even more charming; its roots are like wandering dragons, with wonderful forms, and whether viewing the roots, trunk, leaves or flowers, it has advantages unmatched by other tree species, making it a good tree species for making bonsai.

In styling and pruning, tamarisk is generally seen more often in the weeping-branch style, and when making a natural weeping-branch style, the difficulty lies in creating the weeping branches. Because under natural growing conditions, the new shoots of tamarisk are most likely to grow upward. And the small branches and side branches are most likely to droop. When making a weeping-branch style bonsai, you cannot let its branches grow freely; you must decide the position, number, density, length, thickness, layered variation and overall outline of the drooping branches according to the requirements of the layout. If you can correctly apply the methods of "early branch selection", "shading treatment", "branch pulling" and "side branch thinning", you can achieve good results.