Season 8 Episode 17 - Practical Advice for Styling your Pines

About this episode

Scott Martin provides practical advice for styling bonsai pines, focusing on key areas to enhance their appearance.

Contact Scott from Bonsai Matsu Styling your pines (or any of your bonsai) requires a dedicated focus. So before working through your bonsai and wondering where it's going to end up I have a few areas for you to focus on. Building pad height and volume, avoiding flattened structure, length reduction as well as talking about the ski jump effect and an approach to wiring while avoiding the trunk. There's always so much to chat about at this time of the year and while this episode specifically r...

People in this episode

Host: Scott Martin

Topics covered

• bonsai styling
• pines
• pad height
• wiring techniques
• seasonal care

Keywords

• bonsai
• styling
• pines
• wiring
• pad height
• length reduction
• flattened structure

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bonsai Matsu

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