Image following 3 months pruning of the crown to develop a more compact form
Experimenting with creating bonsai is a great way to learn, and I happened across a reasonably priced plaited trunked Ficus in a garden store last year and wanted to find out a bit more about how they actually create the plaited trunks so I bought one to find out.
Below is the stages following purchase through to repotting to understand how they make them.
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- Ficus as purchased
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- Removed from pot and soil removed from roots
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- Exposed roots of each trunk
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- Wire ties where applied around each plaited joint but most had disintegrated by now
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- Trunks have fused in the majority of places where the stems touch
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- You can see method of how the trunks were stabilised
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- Bamboo canes inserted into the base of each trunk
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- Image following 3 months pruning of the crown to develop a more compact form
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- Examples of other ones available
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- Larger examples
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- Really fused trunks
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- Examples of a range of plaited trunks
There are some excellent examples of live tree shaping too which capture the imagination and I love the work of Axel Eriandson and there is no end to the creatitivity trees inspire from seats to living root bridges.
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