Show us some of your bunjins under construction

[october]

Thanks Dave.. Just trying to get my 7 bucks worth..lol..

Rob

 

[Dav4]

Thought I'd wake this thread up with this picture...the tree has changed a lot since I first posted an image of it here in late 2012.

 

[Poink88]

I decided to do this one up, as threatened. I think it came out ok for a first effort, I still think this style is the hardest to pull off...
And and all suggestions are welcome, although for Dario, there may not be enough more to cut off....(its a joke!!!)

LOL. I missed this.

I agree that it is a hard style to pull off (so I haven't tried it yet). Not sure how well boxwood will lend itself to this style...they love to leaf out so you will be fighting it regularly I think.

 

[Nomiyama]

Here is my bunjin Ponderosa pine I have been working on for a few years. It's probably about 3ft tall and estimated at over 300 years old.

 

[therobinmonster]

New to bonsai - Literati

Hey guys,
I'm pretty new to bonsai and recently I found a mountain ash growing between a bunch of bushes and decided to take it and train it to become a bonsai. its going to take a long while before it will have enough age but im willing to wait. Anny suggestions on this ?

 

[PaulH]

Here are a couple recently done, an Incense Cedar and a lodgepole pine. Also a shot of the Chaparral Honeysuckle in bloom.

 

[ChrisV]

I have a shohin bunjin in the making It has been planted on this rock 2 seasons ago.
Originally it was a crawling juniper and the good thing about them is that the have trunks with curves.

Anyway it had been growing freely after that so the roots could settle and get use to the rock. Now that worked, so I wired it for the first time.
This is not a final design I'm thinking of letting the long branch from the middle grow and remove the lower ones to make it more literati and add some shari to it later on.
For now it's a nice project.

 

[Giga]

Juniper(in the works) on the right-more Literati maybe?

 

[parhamr]

Pinus contorta subsp. murryanna. Permit collected near Diamond Lake, Oregon.


I’m letting this slowly recover from collection and gradually transitioning it out of the sandy clay loam soil. Heavy styling work is years down the road. It also needs time for trunk thickening, ramification, and general development. The tree is back budding quite enthusiastically:

 

[Potawatomi13]

I’m letting this slowly recover from collection and gradually transitioning it out of the sandy clay loam soil. Heavy styling work is years down the road. It also needs time for trunk thickening, ramification, and general development. The tree is back budding quite enthusiastically:

If you are going to go the literati route you might want to start the hard trunk bending now before it does get any thicker and harder to bend. The other backbudding, etc can still be going on in the meantime.

 

[Eric Group]

This is the second one I posted recently... I will try to find a link to the first as well:
http://www.bonsainut.com/index.php?threads/another-pro-nana-literati.18772/

Found it- both are Pro Nana
http://www.bonsainut.com/index.php?threads/pro-nana-literati-progression.18034/#post-242518

OLD Pro Nanas... I think they have been in training for some time, but I have had them not quite two years.

 

[erb.75]

dwarf hinoki cypress... I think I'm going to jin the right hand side and keep the left. The lower branch almost looks like an arm and hand! sorry 'bout the tree being out of focus. Cannon camera isn't all that smart sometimes

 

[erb.75]

alhtough I'd be interested to know if anyone thinks I should keep the right side and lose the left, or keep both.

 

[brewmeister83]

alhtough I'd be interested to know if anyone thinks I should keep the right side and lose the left, or keep both.

nope, my vote's for ditching the right and keeping the left as well, drew my eye right in... that jagged "question mark" shape has far more interest IMO then the straight right-hand extension... just my 2 cents

 

[Zac chandanais]

This tree decided its own style. It use to be full of foliage. Then 70% of it died and this is what survived. Dont laugh too hard I've only been doing this since March so I'm still learning. I plan on jining the top dead branches.(or lose them all together).

Zac

 

[thumblessprimate1]

A JBP I have in early development. I plan for it to gain so heft and height.

 

[erb.75]

This tree decided its own style. It use to be full of foliage. Then 70% of it died and this is what survived. Dont laugh too hard I've only been doing this since March so I'm still learning. I plan on jining the top dead branches.(or lose them all together).

Zac
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Actually, this could be a nice very soon. I would recommend after studying literati for some time they you do not make all three foliage locations into branches that are lowered (as you have done). I would raise on up to be the apex (head) and the other two used for drooping branches (like arms/hands). Literati can be very successfully done this way.

 

[JudyB]

erb, literati is not a "formula" Not saying that the one you put forward wouldn't work, or that there are not examples of that out there. But it's a feeling, not a set of dynamics. To me it's more about the negative space than anything else, and how it works with the foliage instead of the other way around.

 

[erb.75]

meh, I disagree. there are only so many ways to style a tree, and if you look at 300 literati eventually SOME of them start to look like one another. There is a lot more room for innovation in literati, but there are trends that emerge.

I was giving my opinion, nothing more. He definitely don't have to take my opinion. I just have seen a lot of trees that work well in the literati style when they have a straight trunk and drooping branches, then something at the apex

 

[erb.75]

visually, my eyes are just not sure which was I should follow...left, or right, or down and right