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Originally Posted by TrevMcRev  I've played with bonsais for about 15 years. Lost most of them when i lived in an upstairs flat though about 10 years ago. Still have 1 original though.
I like how many the things you do in bonsai are so arboriculturally incorrect 
Like ripping big wounds down the side of a trunk to initiate decay to age the look of the tree, make it look like its been struck by lightening!
Of course, being an arborist i cant bring myself to do alot of those sort of things. 
I tend to do minimal invasive stuff to em. |
The community college in Portland where I took landscape classes with tree care classes, had an actual "Bonsai Master" Masahiro Furukawa who taught bonsai there.
Most common comment if we didn't get it right "notsogood"
I recall stripping all the bark off of a limb to get the bleached deadwood.
Great class though. I apply stuff like that in my work.
This Mt. Fuji, here, utilized the elevated canopy in front to view in, with a slightly lower canopy in back - that's from my class experience...
Mt. Fuji Japanese Flowering Cherry
For design plans, I use the principle that no two stems are located on the same X or Y axis when practical...
http://www.mdvaden.com/documents/triangles.doc
Again, this came from my bonsai class.