Evoluzione Bonsai : E.V. - FORUM BONSAI LODI - ANDREA ALBERGO: JUNIPER SABINA YAMADORI

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Great technique and respect for the tree, in this extraordinary post of Andrea Albergo, which tells the story of a juniper sabina.
Besides being on the Bonsai Forum Lodi article it was also published in the journal Bonsai & News (136)

Sabina juniper bonsai

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ANDREA ALBERGO: SABINA YAMADORI

The object of the article is a Juniperus Sabina, plant tree in the family Cupressaceae.Native to Asia, America and Europe, in Italy grows in the Apennines and the Alps from 1,000 mt to 3,000 mt.It 'a bushy shrub, often presents prostrate and densely branched, with the young branches and thin.The bark is reddish-brown, its deep green leaves when crushed give off a penetrating odor and suggestive. It presents seasonally numerous flowers oval yellowish. After fertilization the branches that carry female flowers bend down, so that the berries ripen pendulous, each berry contains one or two seeds. Sometimes this plant can accommodate the fungus Gymnosporangium fuscum.Unlike other applications juniper bonsai techniques on Sabine are diluted over time with careful consideration of the health of the plant and designed with great care to avoid unpleasant withdrawal of sap that could lead to the loss of branches or at worst to loss of all the 'exemplary. I came into possession of this Sabine yamadori in spring 2009, the age was introduced with a fairly sparse vegetation and color very reassuring but now had met and the spark was lit!

Sabina juniper bonsai - Yamadori

I often lay eyes on a yamadori and suddenly imagine it in its final form already in a bonsai pot. When I'm dealing with wild plants there I always go very cautious, always I wait at least one growing season to evaluate the strength of the tree before thinking about any intervention. This is crucial because you have time to get in tune with the tree, understand its rhythms and study calmly the various solutions to be implemented to pull out from a bush a bonsai credible.The yamadori usually have on them the deep scars left by nature during their existence, so they always impressed strengths and weaknesses. The task of a good and sensitive bonsai should be to know how to bring out the strengths and hide flaws in a never obvious. After two growing seasons the plant has a great force, its vegetation has tripled, and with the technique of selection and elimination of weak tufts its vigor and well distributed of all the branches.

Sabina juniper bonsai - Yamadori

Abundant flowering is an unequivocal sign that the plant is completely stabilized.It ''s time to intervene. Too often we make the mistake of starting almost immediately to apply the different techniques of yamadori newly purchased endangering the life of the plant and not to have enough vegetation to make it balanced and credible. Haste is the enemy more destructive for a bonsai, you should never forget,that has to do with a living being. We have to respect the tree to get closer to its rhythms. In addition, a bonsai sensitive, will never seek to impose its rhythms or its flavors and shapes, but rather to try to accommodate those that are the characteristics of the tree to get closer to achieving its final shape in an intimate and spiritual.Analysis and design:Plant very old with a beautiful sinuous movement. Does not have a good taper, it presents a striking shari that rises from the base to the apex with veins well tubolarizzate by gentle movement and elegant. The vegetation is abundant and supported by branches very long. Because of its classic trend "S" may be set in the style moyogi with excellent characteristics, however, the high part of the plant escapes too towards the rear.

Sabina juniper bonsai - Yamadori

The opposite side has the same characteristics, in more than the movement of the veins it seems slightly better and the top is toward the observer. After a careful study of all the branches available to you process a project with a design.

Project style Moyogi

Considering all the details of design, all seems well-balanced but we must not stop at the first intuition but continue viewing from various viewpoints and angles in search of a solution that brings out the most of its features.

Assessment of the appropriate style

By tilting the plant from the left side her curves appear more pronounced with a motion before descending and then ascending, the jin pointing down help to strengthen his leadership reflecting observer force and drama. With another design, this time in style kengay, trying to imagine the right position of the boxes.

style Kengai

After careful evaluation of the two projects you decide to follow that style Kengai. Before you begin shaping the plant was repotted in the right position but with a degree of slope greater than in the drawing. The study and the project for the first setting of a yamadori is essential but should not necessarily be taken literally. It 'a good idea not to bind schemes or hard and fast rules but if you need to make changes during the molding process by following the creative inspiration of the moment.Searching for the right view:To create a great bonsai knowledge of the right techniques to be implemented, it is not enough. You have to enter intimately in tune with the shaft to pull out all its hidden potential. During the creative process necessary you can also break some rules provided that the result is not excessive but always full of naturalness. At this point it is very helpful, project the intimate and personal image people have of the tree in its place of origin, as in a time warp. With a little 'concentration you can not have a vision suggestive and evocative of the surrounding landscape. I thought of this the Sabine drove the cold wind and the weight of incessant snow that made him to fall to one side. Some roots were exposed to air and died, thus interrupting the lymphatic flow, also a part of the vegetation regressed. At that point the bark flaking and deteriorating, formed a clear shari.The remaining roots clinging to the ground is resumed with the arrival of spring feeding the remaining branches, who are looking for light, indirizzarono their young growths up at the expense of falling branches that were weakened to death. Keeping in mind these characteristicsIt is sure to bring forth strength, drama and naturalness.The Phase molding:After making sure that the tree has recovered from the stress of repotting it starts with a rough cleaning of dry wood and definition of the veins lives, cleaning the green tufts of eliminating weaknesses to prepare them for spinning. The branches that are not necessary to the design are stripped of bark and turned into long jin very suggestive. It begins with spinning the branches that will be the lowest in the waterfall and then all the others up to the apex.

Sabina juniper bonsai

It 'a good idea to work first thing in the dry wood and then shape the tree. In this case, however, knowing that the hair would not hampered the work on the dry, I preferred to do the reverse. The main trunk while possessing a sinuous trend is further enlivened by intervening in the dry.

Sabina juniper bonsai -Phase processing of dry

In the section of the first corner dating, it forms an unpleasant visual effect of taper against. To conceal this defect is created, with the use of a milling cutter, a vacuum in order to lighten curve visually, creating more dynamic so as to flow quickly look elsewhere.

Sabina juniper bonsai -Phase processing of dry

The parts that you want to highlight instead making sure that the look you dwell, where possible, will be framed by the antlers. After work milling technique is applied the flaming so clean up dry by the signs of the cutter and give everything a more natural and aged. Prior to the passage of the fire, as a precaution, the veins lives have been protected with a modeling clay.

Sabina juniper bonsai -Preparation for forming

After forming removing the modeling clay and with a wire brush cleans the wood to prepare it for the subsequent application of the liquid jin

Sabina juniper bonsai - after forming

Sabina juniper bonsai - after cleaning and the application of the liquid jin

This is only a first stage of the treatment and processing of dry. In the future appearance it will be made even more natural with the use of hand tools in order to bring out the natural grain of wood by means of the technique of the tear. Gouges with the rise of small strips of wood that you then pull away snatching them vigorously.

Sabina juniper bonsai - after shaping

Once the modeling tree will protected in a place sheltered from the wind and temperature changes, several times a day also spraying the foliage around the plant you create the right microclimate for a speedy recovery after the stress suffered. Now begins the long road

This Sabina to become a bonsai