Bonsai

Artificial bonsai: 5 tips for a living interior corner

Bonsai is a special art when an exact copy of a tree is grown in miniature. The ancient Japanese invented to grow miniature trees, turning this process into a whole art. Bonsai is a tree in a pot or is translated as “growing on a tray.” Artificial bonsai is popular today.

Artificial bonsai tree: what is it

Usually, work on the creation of such a tree begins with the fact that they are looking for a good branch for the trunk. Sometimes a slowly growing plant acts as a branch, which, for example, no longer develops. Due to improper growth conditions, the plant acquired a not quite correct shape – thickening, unevenness, curvature. And these defects can, however paradoxical it may sound, be turned into art.

The crown for bonsai is the most interesting. Widespread use of juniper, foamiran, azalea

A certain container serves as the basis, which must be filled with clay, gypsum, even plasticine. In a word, something that will hold the mini-tree.

Artificial bonsai: history of origin (video)

How to make an artificial bonsai with your own hands: step by step instructions

Any master class begins with a listing of the materials and tools that will be needed in the work. If you take the standard manual, you get a kind of universal list of traditional bonsai..

Materials for making bonsai:

Planter or plate (ceramic);
A piece of driftwood or, alternatively, a three-core wire;
Gypsum;
Glue gun;
PVA glue;
Acrylic paints for finishing decoration;
Artificial greenery divided into inflorescences.

This is the basis, that is, the list can be large

For beginners, the best option is a tree with few materials and fairly simple instructions..

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So why exactly a three-core wire? It is not always possible to find the desired snag or branch, and the wire is malleable to manipulation. At one end, this wire must be stripped to get future branches..

You need to do this procedure with three wires that form the trunk.

Now you need to fix the barrel on a plate or in a planter. You will need a heat gun and hot glue.

After fixing, the entire structure is coated with PVA glue. Then you can start breeding gypsum..

Bonsai step by step:

Dilute the gypsum according to the instructions, adding to the PVA, the solution should look like thick sour cream;
The solution is applied to the tree frame, with its help form the structure of the trunk and branches;
Leave the structure to dry for a day;
At the end of the day, you need to back the entire trunk with PVA glue;
When the glue dries well, it can be painted brown;
Attention, paint is also mixed with PVA glue (three parts of paint are one part of glue);
Paint is applied not with a brush, but with a sponge;
Many craftsmen prefer to paint over the trunk from above with ocher;
It dries all two hours, and then you can make a crown;

The leaves will be attached to the branches with a thermal gun (artificial leaves can be purchased at handicraft stores)

It’s just a stand. Use the following method of decorating the stand: mix the same PVA glue and semolina in proportions 2: 1, and add green paint there. This mixture is usually applied to the bottom of the plate with a cocktail spoon, resulting in beautiful irregularities..

At the foot of the tree, you can leave a few coffee beans that will imitate pebbles

Bonsai: how to make it (MK video)

How to make pine bonsai: decorate the site

Pine bonsai is a garden bonsai. That is, a tree that will delight you not in the house, but on the site. This bonsai cannot be called completely artificial; nevertheless, real pine seedlings are taken. But there are a lot of manipulations, since you yourself regulate the growth and development of the plant..

Pine bonsai is a living copy of a coniferous tree in a reduced form

The main stages of growing pine bonsai:

Several pine seedlings need to be provided with good drainage and lighting, and not be subjected to any special manipulations in the first year;
In the second year, the seedlings are already cut to 12 cm, while the remaining shoot should have good needles that are not pruned;
Pruning is done at the end of March, at an angle of 45 degrees.

Cropped plants will thicken. If the needles are too lush, they can be thinned out. Then a wire frame is applied to the seedling to give the plant the desired shape. When the wire hits the barrel, it will be removed.

Pine bonsai: planting seeds (video)

DIY New Year bonsai: artful decor for the long-awaited holiday

New Year’s bonsai is the same artificial leaves or needles, which is more appropriate, only snow-covered. The question is how to make snow. Take into account how other crafts are “unscrewed”. There may be snow from broken foam, snow from PVA glue and sea salt, beads, white sequins, etc..

New Year’s bonsai can be made from any small tree, decorating it with Christmas decorations

But you can make a Christmas tree in a different way: for example, create a bonsai from a money tree with your own hands. Since the money tree is grown for the sake of financial well-being, this will be the best wish for the New Year. Well, the New Year’s atmosphere will be created by festive decor – tinsel, cones, decorations.

How to make bonsai from plastic bottles: a piggy bank of ideas

And in this case, there are many variations on how to use plastic as a decor..

The two most common options:

Leaves from plastic bottles. Leaves from a green bottle are cut out, which are melted over the flame, taking the desired shape. Many of these leaves form the crown..
Plastic bottle squares. Small squares or rectangles are cut, which subsequently need to be attached to the wire. These pieces are also heat treated. The wire is folded in half to form twigs. Not fast work, but this way you can imitate a coniferous tree.

A similar bonsai topiary with your own hands looks good if you successfully decorate the trunk and stand

DIY bonsai in the aquarium

And you can put an artificial mini bonsai in the aquarium, which, by the way, looks healthy. An important step here is to choose the right snag. It has to be cooked.

Features of making bonsai in an aquarium:

Collect a whole bucket of water, throw in at least ten tablespoons of salt, put the water on the fire;
Throw a snag into this water;
You need to cook the snag for five hours, and then keep it in a bucket of cold water for another two days;
Place the dried snag “head down” in a clay flower pot;
Put several large stones around the formed trunk, pebbles and sand will also be needed;
Javanese moss, disassembled into pieces, should be placed on the branches of a tree, and they should be fixed neatly with a thin fishing line;
At the very base of such a tree, you also need to put moss.

Instead of driftwood, you can make a trunk from a bastard, such a plant often vegetates on window sills

The tree can be placed in the center of the aquarium. There are instructions where all the manipulations are described in more detail, but a lot is thought out by the master himself right in the process. For example, you can make a mountain out of sand and pebbles right in the aquarium, where the tree will grow, it looks exotic and very Japanese..

Bonsai in the aquarium (video)

Bonsai is an oriental decor that has long been loved in our latitudes. Such a tree will decorate a greenhouse, living room, study, loggia. If you love Japanese culture, then a book shelf with volumes of Japanese authors will harmoniously complement a mini bonsai.

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