BonjourBonsai
Chumono
I was recently staring out a bus window on a trip through Florida. It was actually a great trip because I got to see a ton of amazing pines which I'm thinking were pinus elliotti. They gave me great styling ideas for some pitch pines I'm working on.
Then I spotted a huge juniper (or maybe a cedar). It looked like an amorphous kind of roundish green blob with a point on top. The trunk was perfectly straight.
This got me thinking about where inspiration for juniper styling comes from. If we look to big pines for pine bonsai styling ideas and to big maples for maple bonsai styling ideas, etc., where do the inspirations for styling junipers come from? I've never seen a bonsai juniper look like the juniper I saw from the bus. I'm sorry I didn't take any pictures.
Just curious to see where everyone gets their general juniper styling inspiration from. Is there a prototypical juniper shape that should serve as styling inspiration? Or is the juniper such a wonderfully adaptable species that it can take on the shape of a variety of larger trees and with its small needles make a convincing case for miniaturization?
Then I spotted a huge juniper (or maybe a cedar). It looked like an amorphous kind of roundish green blob with a point on top. The trunk was perfectly straight.
This got me thinking about where inspiration for juniper styling comes from. If we look to big pines for pine bonsai styling ideas and to big maples for maple bonsai styling ideas, etc., where do the inspirations for styling junipers come from? I've never seen a bonsai juniper look like the juniper I saw from the bus. I'm sorry I didn't take any pictures.
Just curious to see where everyone gets their general juniper styling inspiration from. Is there a prototypical juniper shape that should serve as styling inspiration? Or is the juniper such a wonderfully adaptable species that it can take on the shape of a variety of larger trees and with its small needles make a convincing case for miniaturization?