How to make Bonsai tree for beginners, the video explores how you can create bonsai from common garden centre stock. It is a gratifying and satisfying way of increasing your bonsai stock. This video discusses how to identify suitable plants and how to go about making your own bonsai.
Making trees or growing your own trees is a very satisfying way of making your collection larger in bonsais. You can grow them from seed, you can even collect them from the wild, you can get them from friends, or you can buy a ready-made bonsai. But I think one of the more, or the less talked about areas is to make a bonsai from nursery stock, common garden centre stock.
Selecting trees in the nursery. Well, you start off with some idea of what you
want, whether you want deciduous or whether you’re after some evergreen trees. But having decided, you go to the relevant sections and try and look for trees that have interest in the trunk or in the foliage or the shape of the tree itself is attractive.
Once you’ve identified the tree, then the next step is to try and work with it. So the first thing to do is to take the tree out of the pot. You generally have to thump it out with a mallet or with a wooden block. Hit the sides of the pot, and it may just dislodge.
Once that’s done, use a turntable and then work with a metal chopstick or wooden chopstick to start clearing away soil from the top of the tree to see what kind of nebari you have. You can work down towards where the nebari is exposed.
Once you’ve found the nebari, you look for the front of the tree,
and the front usually shows off the best movement in the tree. That should give you
an idea as to which way the tree is leaning or which way the tree has a lot of character.
You then start looking for the structure within the tree so you clear away excess foliage, you clear away excess branches, and when you've done that, then you can try and style it by wiring it or shortening some of the branches.
The next step after a little while is to choose a suitable pot and then match the pot with the tree.
