Kuromatsu bonsai in bunjin style - an old pine from Japan

Kuromatsu bonsai in bunjin style - an old pine from Japan in our bonsai studio. A Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergii) is always beautiful. It's always cool. It is beautiful in all seasons and has a constant sight - thanks to its evergreen nature. In the case of a multigenerational tree, we always think of the future but continue the past. This is true for the position of the branches, the angle of the tree, and the style of the started tree. How much we intervene in the work of previous generations, how much we transform the results of their work is another matter.

There is a bonsai that picks our hearts not only with its age but also with its rich branch system. She's been living in a looks like nanban round bonsai pot, but that wasn't always the case. It doesn't matter what pot she was in before, but frankly it's not sure we would remember each pot if we were to queue up for the past ten or so years. (Yes, that's it. Because that's how much time the tree had in our nursery.) There was a time when we took her to a number of exhibitions to show the audience, and there was a time when she was our favorite of the pines. Today it is more of a favorite of ours, because since then our horticulture has been able to leapfrog. This tree was never pushed into the background, but for years it was brought under training and for this reason it was hidden from the eyes of the public - though figuratively speaking. During this time, of course, the tree was elongated and expected, and so did the proportion of candles relative to the branch system - as is of course. One thing we have always been very careful about avoiding summer over-watering is that it corresponds to the excessive needle growth in thunbergii, which prevents the formation of candles and buds.

The tree was eventually transformed, of course. We re-wired and rebuilt the branch levels and, looking to the future, structurally recovered the individual branches and green sections. Next year's spring repotting will have to be aimed at lowering the tree so that the ground above the rim of the bowl the so called "small hill" as much as possible - for a more aesthetic look. But most importantly, we have tried to recreate the state of the last view in the best and most accurate way possible.

Although an elongated overall picture has a romance, it also has a remodeled image. But after such a rebuild, it will still take some time for the desired overall view to come out of the tree bringing the desired growth.