These natural catastrophes will twist the tree downward in nature and so it is with a bonsai in the cascade form. Modeled after trees that grow from banks over water or down the side of a mountain.
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The viewer will tend to have an unbalanced feeling if the nebari is not solid.
Semi cascade bonsai cascade style. Unlike the cascade style the semi cascade trunk will never grow below the bottom of the pot. When styling semi cascade style be sure to balance the visual weight of the tree and the pot. The main trunk of a bonsai in a cascade form will bend downward past the lip of its container and past its root line.
You typically see this bonsai in a tall skinny pot that is used to raise the bonsai off the ground to give it room to cascade. The cascade style is one of the most popular bonsai styles used today. If you can picture a tree growing on the side of a cliff spilling off the mountain this is what cascade is meant to mimic.
The branches on the main trunk will reach both out and up as though it were striving for the sun. At the end of the video i review the thought process involved while styling the tree and how you might apply it to your own trees. The apex of a full cascade style falls below the base of the pot.
The trunk grows upright for a small distance and then bends downwards sidewards. Semi cascade bonsai style han kengai the semi cascade style just like the cascade style is found in nature on cliffs and on the banks of rivers and lakes. Semi cascade recognized by a trunk line more horizontal than vertical.
A semi cascade style bonsai is one in which the major cascading feature extends below the top rim of the pot but does not extend below the bottom of the pot. In japanese a cascade bonsai form is called a kengai bonsai. Semi cascade bonsai styles are very similar to cascade styles except for the fact that the tip of a semi cascading bonsai does not grow below the base level of the pot.
For more instructional videos please click the link below. To give scope for the cascade shape this style often appears in a tall slender container not used elsewhere in bonsai. Juniper bonsai styling in this video i style semi cascade juniper.
Dedicated to the art of bonsai and it s specific style or class designs. Most of the foliage mass is above the pot and the apex is positioned outside and below the lip of the pot.
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