When I was a child, I learned from the story of sick plum blossom that the ancients worshipped plum blossom, when "taking pleasure as beauty, straightness is without posture;" Take beauty as beauty, and the law has no scenery; Sparse is beautiful and secret is stateless. " Fan Chengda, a poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote in the Preface of Plum Blossom Arrangement: "Plum blossoms win by rhyme, which is high, so it is more expensive to be oblique and sparse." Therefore, the shape of plum blossom bonsai should pay attention to stems, roots and branches.
(A), dry modeling
Plum blossom bonsai piles are mostly purchased from the market. Now there are many professional growers who supply plum blossom piles for the market. Of course, most of these plum blossom piles are large in scale, but their age is generally not high. Reflected in the lack of vicissitudes. Of course, all these can be made artificially in the later stage of culture.
There are several styles of stems in plum blossom bonsai:
1. Bent stem type: The trunk of bonsai is irregularly bent, not too big, and needs to be symmetrical, in order to pursue nature.
2. Inclined stem type: thin shadow inclined side, plum blossom inclined stem type. Inclined dried plum blossom bonsai is easy to make, as long as it is placed obliquely when planting.
3. Lying dry type: fine branches and jade leaves, plum tree trunk clings to the basin surface, head leans back, looks back, is beautiful and elegant, and has a graceful posture.
4. Cliff shape: Cliff-shaped plum blossom bonsai. When cultivating young trees, the trunk is pressed down and put into a basin to make it cliff-like. Cliff-style plum blossom bonsai, with elegant charm, is deeply loved by people all over the world.
5. Vertical branch type: generally made of real plum blossoms. Its branches droop naturally and gracefully. Plum blossoms with drooping branches can be obtained by budding common plum blossoms. Bonsai made of plum branches can be supplemented by binding to increase its drooping range and make it more elegant.
The drying of plum blossom bonsai can be achieved by cutting and peeling with a knife. Note: when carving or peeling, it is not advisable to complete the whole trunk at one time. One side should be operated from top to bottom, keeping the trunk up. The operating line can be changed, such as spiral or winding. After the wound is scarred, do the same for the other side. If you feel that the vicissitudes of life are not enough, you can repeat the operation many times.
(2) Root
Root piles should be old stems hanging from the roots and intertwined. Dew roots can show the elegance and fragrance of plum trees in various forms. Bare-rooted potted plums mainly hang their roots on the surface of flowerpots like talons. Plum piles are placed on pots, and cultivation can only take shape if parallel roots are tied into an oblique shape.
(3) branches
The shape of branches in plum blossom bonsai mainly depends on pruning. Pruning of plum blossoms is mainly carried out after the flowers wither. Pruning is mainly accomplished by cutting short, thinning branches, shrinking branches, smearing buds and sharpening.