Field Grown Korean Hornbeam

[dtkabardin]

Bought this Korean hornbeam from Cedar Rose in Jan ‘26. Potted it up, picked a front based on the nebari and trunk, and made some pruning happen. Still very new to bonsai so doing the best with what I learned in my first year last year.






Does a change of angle make more sense?

 

[Tahoebonsai]

Badass, I’m curious what it would look like if you tilted it more to the left to increase the lean

 

[dtkabardin]

Hadn’t thought of that. It’s interesting.

 

[Tahoebonsai]

I think that looks pretty nice like that, with a slanting tree you want the primary branch to counter balance it and maybe if you could get the movement in that branch to kinda match the trunk line a bit but that’s just my opinion curious what other people think, awesome tree