Learn how to make five-needle pine bonsai and make your home more charming!
Zhu Shunru
The pine is proud and grandiose, solemn and solemn, the skin is like a dragon, the leaves are like horsehair, it does not wither in the frost and snow, and it does not die for thousands of years, so there is EE·' The length of a hundred trees". The welcome pine of Huangshan is elegant and beautiful, the strange pine of Sanqing Mountain is graceful, the pine of Mount Tai is firm and upright, and the pine trees in nature are in various forms. Since ancient times, literati and writers have used poetry to sing songs, write to remember songs, paint pines, and sing songs to praise songs.
Pinaceae plants mainly grow in the northern hemisphere, mostly evergreen trees, such as black pine, red pine, masson pine, five-needle pine, Huangshan pine, red pine, Chinese pine, whitebark pine, Huashan pine, Yunnan pine, etc. are widely distributed throughout China. Pine trees have excellent characteristics, whether they are used for garden landscapes or as bonsai materials, they have high ornamental value. The author has been engaged in the landscaping engineering industry for many years, and also likes bonsai creation, especially five-needle pine bonsai, and discusses and exchanges with the majority of five-needle pine bonsai lovers.
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▲The white sand and green pine garden in the Adachi Museum of Art, which is known as the most beautiful garden in Japan, is planted in the white sand and next to the bluestone, with sand as the sea, fossils into islands, and trees as mountains, which is elegant and Zen, becoming a classic of Japanese garden art, and also showing the unique charm of five-needle pine in the application of garden landscape
Native to Japan, the five-needle pine has an elegant posture, evergreen in all seasons, elegant and upright, strong and elegant. In 1909, Huang Yueyuan, the owner of Shanghai Huangyuan, introduced five-needle pine from Japan. In the following year, Fu Furu, a villager from 36 Bay in Xikou, Fenghua, Ningbo, obtained the bud head of the five-needle pine from Huangyuan, grafted it on the Masson pine, and survived smoothly. Five years later, he grafted the five-needle pine bud head to the black pine seedlings to propagate, year after year, gradually became a scale, and also drove the enthusiasm of the surrounding people to plant five-needle pine. Today, Ningbo's Fenghua, Beilun, Cixi and other places have become the production base of five-needle pine that is well-known throughout the country.
Master Sheng Guangrong's five-needle pine jungle bonsai "Pine Forest Pastoral Fun" is planted by three five-needle pine plants of different heights and thicknesses, and the three piles are not prominent, but when combined together, there is a relationship between high and low, staggered, sparse and echoing, and then the cow is used as an ornament, although the shepherd boy is not seen in the pine forest, but it makes people feel that the shepherd boy is playing in it, and the artistic conception of "Pine Forest Pastoral Fun" arises spontaneously
Five-needle pine likes to grow in sunny and air circulation, avoid humidity and heat, and do not have strict requirements for soil, and it is better to slightly acidic gray yellow loam. The branches are plastic, easy to bend, and as long as the tear is properly handled, it will generally not die and retreat, which is the incomparable advantage of black pine, red pine, Huangshan pine, and tabuliformis pine. Bud picking is an important measure to preserve the shape of the bonsai and landscape trees of the five-needle pine, when the five-needle pine germinates, the unwanted buds are removed in time, which can make the branches shorter, the branches are compact, dense and shaped.
The five-needle pine is evergreen in all seasons, the leaf is excellent, the five-needle is clustered, and the green and verdant needles are like clouds surging, which has a unique charm.
The long-aged five-needle pine, with cracked bark, is vigorous and elegant, and has a unique wind and bones, whether it is used as a bonsai or a landscape tree, it can maintain its shape for a long time. In the Yangtze River Delta region, especially in Wenzhou, Ningbo, Jinhua, Taizhou and other places in Zhejiang, the five-needle pine has a lot of enthusiasts, the Chinese bonsai art master Hu Leguo, Pan Zhonglian have created a lot of five-needle pine bonsai, Pan Zhonglian master's "Liu Songnian brushwork", Hu Leguo master "to the end of the world" are the representative works of the five-needle pine high dry planting, the branch crown is simple but the rhyme is smooth, such as the top of the mountain to leave the independent ancient pine, the momentum is magnificent, upright and elegant, humble and free, people never get tired of seeing, it is a classic work of Chinese bonsai. Such a five-needle pine boutique bonsai is the author's source of nutrients, every time you taste, you can always make people forget themselves and detached things.
The author's five-needle pine works: "Ancient Charm and Grace" won the silver medal in the 2017 China Jue China Bonsai Artists Association Member Works Exhibition, the tree height is 100cm, the branches are still very immature at that time, but the bending and change of the main trunk of the pile is very coordinated, and the frustration and turning are also strong, which not only shows the masculine beauty of the pine, but also shows the elegance and beauty of the pine
In addition to the general tree bonsai modeling, the literati style and the jungle co-planting style are also commonly used for five-needle pine modeling. Because the five-needle pine is artificially cultivated seedlings, when the volume is not enough and is not suitable for individual modeling, you can try the literati modeling, express the elegant, arrogant taste with concise lines and ethereal pictures; Ornaments, etc., although made by people, as if made by nature, although in the close basin, but can create the infinite artistic conception of the mountains and valleys. For example, Sheng Guangrong's five-needle pine jungle bonsai "Pine Forest Pastoral Fun" is planted by three five-needle pine plants of different heights and thicknesses, and the three piles are not prominent, but when combined together, there is a relationship between height and height, staggered, dense and echoing, and then with cattle as ornaments, although there is no shepherd boy in the pine forest, it makes people feel that the shepherd boy plays in it, and the artistic conception of "Pine Forest Pastoral Fun" arises spontaneously.
The author's five-needle pine bonsai work "Ancient Charm and Divine Posture", with a height of 100cm, won the silver medal at the 2017 China Jue China Bonsai Artists Association Member Exhibition. At that time, the height of the tree was 100cm, and the branches were still immature, but the main trunk was bent and coordinated, and the abrupt turns and turns were also strong, which not only showed the masculinity of the pine, but also reflected the elegance and beauty of the pine. After several years of maintenance, "Ancient Charm and Beauty" has gradually matured, the canopy is dense and plump, and the branches are no longer weak, standing tall and graceful.