Shape design of plum blossom bonsai: The shape of plum blossoms usually adopts "thick tying and thin shearing". The main trunk can be climbed when it reaches 1 cm in diameter. The side branches can also be roughly tied, using either brown wire or metal wire. , the rest are trimmed. For the new flower branches every year, you can also use brown silk to tie them according to the styling needs. The main trunk and large branches should be processed in winter, and the new branches should be processed in September in autumn. Be careful not to damage the buds.

When appreciating potted plum blossoms, the best ones are mostly "old trunks covered with moss, branches covered with moss, intertwined roots, horizontally slanted and thin, vigorous and elegant, with sparse flowers". Therefore, the shape of prunes must be vigorous, elegant and varied. According to the artistic conception of "taking beauty as the beauty, there is no scenery", you can make curved, inclined, lying, hanging and other postures.