The author first got a black pine and kept it for more than two years. The tree is chaotic, with a winding floating branch on the front and dense branchlets on the trunk, with more on the top and less on the bottom. The roots of the plant are thick, and the scales are layered from the roots to the top, which is simple and vigorous. Observing the change of its trunk, the transition is more natural. Preliminary idea: there are many twigs in the upper part of the crown, which can be layered and the overall tree potential changes zigzag. The upper branches and leaves are mainly "gathered", while the lower floating branches and the upper branches form a "scattered" shape. The shape of the whole tree can be used as a "cloud" shape. The lower branches of the back tree crisscross, and the lower thick branches have turned to the front side to become candidate "floating branches". The longer side branches at the top of the upper part can be turned into trunk "continuation branches" for knots, and other side branches can be kept as side branches of the cloud sheet after being cut and thinned.

Preliminary modeling completed

Basin bottom packing

Clean basin surface

Change the pot

The creative process is carried out in the order of main branch, main branch and side branch. After preliminary pruning and thinning, the redundant thick branches and longer side branches are removed, and the floating branches are tied tightly after the direction of the trunk is determined. The order of winding branches is from bottom to top, from outside to inside, from front to back, from coarse to fine. Pinza, the main branch and lateral branch, is made of flat silk thread with corresponding thickness and branches in place. The top of the crown is dominated by the whole tree, the layout should be reasonable, and the top trend should be unified with the overall trend of the crown. The main branches and lateral branches that have been preliminarily tied are properly adjusted according to the trend of the tree and the density change of the upper and lower layers, so that there are both changes and unity between the upper and lower layers.

Choose a purple sand basin with appropriate size as the planting basin, cover the drainage hole at the bottom with spun yarn net to prevent leakage, and then sprinkle a small amount of coarse sandy nutrient soil at the bottom of the basin to facilitate drainage. After preliminary modeling, clean up the original planting basin surface, remove excess basin soil and weed debris, so that the root system of Pinus thunbergii is slightly exposed to reflect the beauty of hanging roots and claws.

Close to the wall of the pot, hook off the pot soil with an iron hook, so that the soil ball of the plant can be separated from the original pot, and the black pine plant can be easily lifted and replaced in a new pot.

Remove the excess perennial soil on the black loose soil ball, cut off the long root system, then put it into a new planting pot, adjust the posture of the tree, fill in the nutrient soil, insert the pot soil around the soil ball with a sharp wooden stick, and finally water it for shade, so as to carry out normal maintenance and management.

The modeling is initially completed, and the branches are dense and dense.