How to make plum blossom bonsai

Plum blossoms should be planted in purple clay pots or glazed tile pots from11~ 65438+February. The style of Suzhou-style bonsai is to split the thick and shapeless plum village, remove some xylem, and after carving and processing, achieve the effect of "dead wood meets spring". The style of Yangpai bonsai is to tie the trunk into a knot or a circle at the seedling stage. After a long time, it will form a knot shape, which looks quaint.

Upper basin process

Choice of pot: plum blossom should use purple sand pottery pot or glazed pottery pot, generally not too shallow. Inclined dry pots and curved dry pots are mostly used in middle and deep manger pots or round pots, square pots and hexagonal pots. Thousands of barrels of pots are mostly cliff-shaped.

Soil: plum blossoms are not strict with soil, and loose, permeable and humus-rich soil is better. Frozen and brittle pond soil mixed with 30~40% rice bran ash is often used as culture soil for potted plants.

Planting: it should be carried out in June11~ June 65438+February, or after flowering. Generally, the seeds should be planted obliquely, which is convenient for modeling. Before planting, you can trim it once. Base fertilizer can be placed on the basin bottom.

Attitude control technology

Processing: Plum blossoms are mostly shaped by "rough rolling and fine shearing". When the diameter of the trunk reaches 1 cm, it can be climbed, and the lateral branches can also be thick rolled, with brown silk or metal wire, and the rest can be trimmed. For the newly born flower branches every year, according to the needs of modeling, brown silk can also be used for climbing and binding. The processing of trunk and big branches should be in winter, and the processing of new branches should be in autumn and September. Be careful not to hurt the bud.

Tree shape: Generally speaking, the trunk of plum blossom bonsai in China should be oblique and the branches and leaves should be stretched, but not blindly sparse. It should be sparse and dense, and the density should be appropriate and picturesque. There are many traditional plum blossom bonsai styles in various schools of bonsai in China, and the common ones are as follows:

Youlong style

It is the traditional style of Huizhou bonsai, that is, the trunk is S-shaped, with several bends from the base to the top, like a Youlong. The lateral branches all come from the convex bending of the trunk, and also have a certain degree of bending, which is symmetrical left and right, on the same plane, which is very interesting.

Santai

It is also the traditional style of Huizhou school. The trunk is bent 2-3 times, and the upper branches and leaves are divided into three pieces, which are staggered and layered, and each piece is made into a horizontal steamed bread, which is dignified and steady.

Split dry type

In the traditional Supai bonsai, the thick and shapeless Meizhuang was split, and some xylem was cut and carved, so as to achieve the effect of "the dead wood meets the spring".

Junction type

In order to carry forward the traditional style of bonsai, the trunk of plum is tied into a knot or a circle at the seedling stage. After a long time, it will form a knot shape, which looks quaint.

Downwind type

It is also the traditional style of Yang school, that is, all branches of Mei are tied to the same side, just like the effect of the wind blowing the flag.

Vertical branching type

It is also the traditional style of Yang school, that is, all the lateral branches of plum blossoms are tied into pendulous shapes, which has a unique charm.

The above styles are for reference only. Now the shape of plum blossom bonsai is more about climbing and pruning plum blossoms, making an eclectic natural feeling.