How do you shape a cloud tree?

Take note: to cloud prune your masses into clouds, choose a small bonsai hand pruner cleaned with alcohol beforehand to avoid spreading diseases, and then start cutting the branches that stick out of the cloud. But you’ll also need to pinch off smaller shoots located under the cloud, to give it a pure silhouette.

How do you do Niwaki?

Shaping trees into Niwaki

1. Steps. Pruning your tree to follow the steps style of Niwaki requires you to shape the branches into steps as they ascend.
2. Ball. To do the ball style of Niwaki, keep the branches relatively short.
3. Twins. The twin’s style requires you to split a tree into the half.
4. Lots.
5. Bendy.
6. Shells.

What is Daisugi technique?

Daisugi (台杉) is a Japanese technique similar to coppicing, used on Cryptomeria (Sugi) trees. The term roughly translates to “platform cedar”. Shoots from the base of the tree are pruned so that the trunk stays straight. This technique results in a harvest of straight logs without having to cut down the entire tree.

What trees are suitable for cloud pruning?

Plants suitable for cloud pruning

• Box (Buxus sempervirens)
• Yew (Taxus baccata)
• Pine (Pinus)
• Japanese privet (Ligustrum japonicum)

What is Niwaki pruning?

Niwaki is the general term applied to this pruning technique, related to bonsai, as applied to trees in the ground rather than containers. Niwaki translates as ‘garden trees/plants’ or ‘sculpted trees’ to distinguish them from trees growing naturally in the wild, and is often applied to any pruned garden plant.

What plants are best for cloud pruning?

How do you use daisugi technique?

According to a tweet by Wrath of Gnon, a Daisugi enthusiast, “The shoots are carefully and gently pruned by hand every two years leaving only top boughs, allowing them to grow straight. Harvesting takes around 20 years and ‘old tress stock’ can grow up to 100 shoots at a time.”