Essentials of miniature bonsai production

Miniature bonsai is a kind of characteristic bonsai made of miniature tree stump or rock, which can be placed on the palm, so it is also called palmtop bonsai. Bonsai is small, exquisite, lively and changeable, and the layout is arbitrary. It can be matched with a few small seats on the desk for people to appreciate, or they can be combined in groups in the ancient shelf to reproduce the elegant demeanour of nature.

Plant materials

To make miniature bonsai, we should first choose suitable plant materials and match them with pots such as purple sand or white marble with fine workmanship. The plant height of miniature bonsai is no more than 10 cm, and the selected plant materials should have the characteristics of small leaves, stout stem, strong adaptability, resistance to pruning, easy modeling, such as June snow, hammer elm, finch plum, Fujian tea, finch gardenia, lobular Luo Han pine, yellow poplar, golden finch, pomegranate, Berberis, cycad, banyan tree, Phoenix tail bamboo, small chrysanthemum, golden marble, black pine, Guanyin bamboo, short dry asparagus, water bayberry and so on.

Modeling skills

The best time for plant modeling is from the beginning of winter to before the sprouting of the following spring. Before modeling, it should be conceived and designed according to the characteristics and posture of the planted trees and determine the modeling mode. Generally speaking, it is appropriate to make semi-cliff type or full cliff type in long cylinder basin; rectangular and oval basin should be made into straight dry or oblique dry type. The trunk is the main part of miniature bonsai modeling, if it is determined to be straight, it does not add flat tie, keep it straight and straight, and store side branches, such as elm, triangular maple, etc.; oblique dry type also only skew the trunk, not flat tie, such as Finch, begonia, etc.; cliff type must be bent with lead wire winding trunk, such as June snow, canary and so on.

Miniature bonsai plant branches and leaves should not be too complicated, generally leave 1 to 2 branches, the shape should be concise, smooth, in order to fully show its natural beauty. Branches such as crossed branches, parallel branches, opposite branches, radiation branches and reverse branches should be thinned or cut short, so that the branches are dense and orderly, clear in level and moderate in height. For Caragana, Yingchun, elm and other varieties with relatively strong roots, their roots can also be exposed on the potted surface when planting, so as to increase the aging situation of bonsai.

Mountain and rock configuration

Miniature landscape bonsai often choose stone with beautiful texture and natural shape as materials, such as wood fossils, stalactites, Reed stone, pumice and so on. Use white marble, white marble, bauxite and other processing to grow square or oval shallow basin. Bonsai modeling production is multi-use high-end style, should not use Pingyuan type, the basin should not put too many rocks, but there should also be main peaks, secondary peaks and matching peaks, you can place an appropriate proportion of small accessories, in order to set off the height of the rocks.

Miniature bonsai creation pays more attention to reflect the overall artistic beauty. The furnishings of each group of bonsai should be in different shapes, and pay attention to the overall layout.