The Literati/Bunjin Thread

[Gabler]

Please forgive the coiled and confused-dragon-path of my literati ramblings.

I suppose floral language makes a certain amount of sense in a gardening forum, even if it took a moment for me to unpack what you were saying.

 

[Russ1]

BRT

Love BRTs, probably my fav tree and have been thinking of a Literati/Bunjin style but thought that they grow to fast for one, this inspires me and gives me something to do with all my cuttings.

 

[Gabler]

Oops. Didn't realize where I was. Here's my photo tax. It's the closest thing I have to a literati right now. The photo is also a year old. I couldn't find anything more recent in my phone.

 

[shohin_branches]

I'm excited to do an initial style on this Hawthorne later this year. Kinda bummed the cedar apple rust wasn't disclosed before I purchased it. I have very bad luck buying trees off the internet.

 

[Topdec]

Not really sure if you can have a cascade literati or where it's going to end up but thought I'd post a few pics of my thuja I've been messing with for the past 18 months!

 

[jerzyjerzy]

Kinda bummed the cedar apple rust wasn't disclosed before I purchased it. I have very bad luck buying trees off the internet.

I do not think cedar apple rust builds-in into hawthorn's wood, since it attacks leaves only. In order to get rust on hawthorn, leaves have to get infected in spring from junipers in the neighborhood. So it will not continue to have rust if junipers around are not sick as well. Or, if you spray the hawthorn against rust every spring.

 

[MACH5]

Did this one a while back. Before and after Engelmann spruce.

 

[Abhishek Dasgupta]

Did this one a while back. Before and after Engelmann spruce.

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Beautiful poetry but with spruce and not words !

 

[Abhishek Dasgupta]

Rhus Trilobata - trilobbed sumac with flowers .

Collected in 2019 by Andy and has been wired from a C shape to today’s design over 4 years . Now only a couple of wires for the daughter left .

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Did this one a while back. Before and after Engelmann spruce.

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Awesome tree but it seems too full to me to be a bunjin. Sergio, how do you define this as a literati?

 

[Wulfskaar]

I grew this JBP from seed (fall 2020) and look to eventually make it into a bunjin style tree.

Are there any specific pointers in developing this style from young JBP?

My current plan is to let it keep growing in height and I will probably wire some more toward the top and maybe the low branch in fall.

 

[MACH5]

Awesome tree but it seems too full to me to be a bunjin. Sergio, how do you define this as a literati?

Sure. Perhaps not a literati in the most conventional way. To me it fits into that category more so than any other. The thin, tall trunks with foliage pads that are light and airy definitely gives me that feeling. I ultimately saw it planted in a round nanban container.

 

[baron]

Working on two of my literati's

Silvestris


Densiflora