Camellia bonsai flat tie shape

Among the many plants in Sichuan style tree stump bonsai, Camellia is one of the earliest tree species adopted.

Camellia is one of the ten famous flowers in China. It is decorated with winter and early spring gardens with the characteristics of winter non-withering, frost and snow, and cold color. If it is used for bonsai, it can make the room bright and lively with its elegant and solemn plant shape, clean green leaves and beautiful flowers.

1. The Bonsai Nature of Camellia

Tea tea originated in the mountains of the Yangtze River Basin in China, is the composition of ancient subtropical forest species. Because it has been planted in forests for only a thousand years, it still has significant subtropical forest plant habits and likes slightly acidic soil. Therefore, when using the basin, avoid using dead yellow mud with poor drainage and old soil. Otherwise, it will cause the plant not to sprout long, if the disease plant, so that the root system black rot and death. Also avoid direct sunlight, like the air humidity of the semi-shade environment.

II. Upper basin and panza

For potted camellia, should be in the plant distance from the larger garden selection seedlings. The selected plants should be camellia with short branches, more branches, uniform leaves, normal development and no pests.

The flower bud differentiation period of Camellia is in May, and flower buds begin to form in June. The upper basin season is preferably February and August of the lunar calendar in spring and autumn. At this time, the leaves and buds of Camellia have just sprouted or not much, and the young shoots and tender leaves after transplantation will not wilt and affect the growth. If you want to pot in other seasons, you should keep more soil balls, quickly plant them and move them to a shady place for several days. Even so, it is not as vigorous as February and August. The soil used for the upper basin should be humus soil or red sandy soil in hilly areas (soil under Pinus massoniana and Camellia oleifera forests).

The upper pot of camellia is usually shaped like hanging rock and rolling branches. Hanging rock basin can be used Yixing high foot dry barrel basin or high Zhuang barrel basin, rolling branch basin can be used in proportion to the round basin, square basin.

For potted plant panza camellia, pot should be inclined to plant, in order to facilitate the operation of the trunk body method. Generally, the trunk bends first to facilitate the body method of winding branches. Common body method can be used to drop the crutch and roll the dragon to hold the column crutch. Panqu trunk, camellia lateral branches, twigs, leaves should generally be retained. After the trunk is formed, the lateral branches are processed. According to the characteristics of the width occupied by the branch, the lateral branch winding mode can be determined by vertical bending, oblique bending and irregular bending to fill the gap on the crown surface. All the above coils are tied with brown silk. Panza operation should be carried out after the new branches harden, that is, about one month after the pot. Due to the strong hardness of camellia wood, such as osmanthus and gold marbles, in each bending operation should be carefully "kneading branches", that is to say, each small section of the branch section involved in this bending should be kneaded first, and after bending in the positive and negative directions, the bark phloem of the branch should be stretched and compressed, so that the xylem can adapt to the external force through extrusion and tension, and then the palm fiber can be tied. Otherwise, after modeling, the branches of the plant will break due to the increase of sap.

Finally, the leaf surface of each leaf is turned outward by twigs. Because the tree species of rolling branch modeling are flowers and trees with axillary flowers (Camellia, Osmanthus, Plum, Chinese plum, Trimme, etc.), the effect after modeling is that flowers can bloom everywhere on the crown surface of a spherical or obovate plant to show elegance. Therefore, the process of turning leaves of twigs should be carried out more carefully. In order to make the camellia leaves alternate on the branches can turn outward, the twigs should be carefully kneaded and twisted when they are bent, neither broken nor turned. After the operation is completed, individual can not handle redundant branches, redundant leaves can be cut off. If there are gaps in the panza to be supplemented by young shoots, it can only be carried out after the young shoots are aged and hardened.