Forest style

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Description

The forest, or grove style is one of the classical bonsai styles. The forest is made up of multiple trunks planted together in a single bonsai container. The combined planting creates the image of a forest of trees.

Hints

• The forest should have trees of varying heights and thicknesses.
• Each trunk's thickness should be proportional to its height.
• The trunks are carefully arranged so that they appear to be naturally spaced, some near to one another and some far away.
• Avoid lining up the trunks in rows.
• Planting an odd number of trees makes this effect easier to achieve.
• Branches should be arranged so that they do not congest between adjacent trees.
• Each branch needs to be positioned so as to receive light and ventilation.
• The bonsai soil surface is often planted with moss.
• Muck is sometimes used to support a shallow basin of bonsai soil atop a stone slab

Containers for Forest Plantings

Bonsai containers suitable for forest style plantings include stone slabs and shallow trays. Rectangular trays are suitable for formal bonsai forests; shallow oval pots and irregular slabs lend themselves well to informal group plantings.

The Japanese term for the forest style is YOSE-UE

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See Also

Near View Forest

Distant View Forest

Bonsai Styles

Formal Upright | Informal Upright | Slant | Exposed Root | Cascade | Semi-Cascade | Root Over Rock | Windswept | Driftwood | Literati | Banyan | Broom | Naturalistic | Flame (Torch) | Live Oak | Bald Cypress | Phoenix Graft | Penjing

Tray Landscapes: Saikei | Bonkei | Hon Non Bo

Multitrunk: Raft | Clump | Twin Trunk | Three Trunk | Forest (Grove)