I am not one for doing “instant Bonsai”. It’s really just not my thing. However I was asked a few weeks ago to participate in our club event called the three ring circus. I displayed the results of the program in an earlier post, but I wanted to show the tree I had to work with.
Shimpaku Juniper Pre-bonsai
As you can see there were about four trunks all going in different directions, and to make things worse all the foliage was at the end of the branches.
Raffia and trunk line
The trunk line wasn’t obvious by any means, but the way the base of the tree flowed, it just seemed to want to be a cascade of some sort.
Semi Cascade Shimpaku Juniper
After a lot of bending this was the results. I hope to get one more picture in a bonsai pot to really show the propoer angle, and maybe a few more bends.
