Broom-Style Bonsai
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Bonsai from the U.S. National Arboretum, Washington DC
Photos courtesy of Jim Nasche ...
Broom style Bonsai
Hokidachi
The broom style is suited for deciduous trees with extensive, fine branching.
Broom Form
The broom form replicates the way many deciduous trees grow in nature given ideal growing conditions with no competition from other trees.
Broom - Hokidachi style
This style is best suited to deciduous trees such as ginkgos, Japanese gray-bark elms and Japanese maple.
Broom Style (Hokidachi)
Trees in this style have upright trunk with branches and foliage radiating outwards in the shape of a Japanese fan or an Umbrella.
Literati Style (Bunjingi) ...
Broom (Hochidachi)
Bushveld (Shizen-zukuri) - Natural shaped
Candle Flame (Rosoku-zukuri) ...
A "broom" style of bonsai. Usually featuring a very straight trunk with symmetrical branches that fan out from the top, forming a broom-like (semicircular dome) crown. Frequently seen on Chinese Elm and other finely branched deciduous trees.
For broom styles to work well, they must be perfectly symmetrical and meticulously trained and pruned to ensure an even and gradual transition from trunk, through heavy branches, to the finest terminal shoots.
The "broom" bonsai style. Branch style. The branch formation on the top of the tree look like an upside down broom.
Hon bachi
Bonsai dish.
The broom style, or Hokidachi is employed for trees with extensive, fine branching, often with species like elms. The trunk is straight and upright. It branches out in all directions about 1/3 of the way up the entire height of the tree.
WITCHES' BROOM
What Are Witches' Brooms? - A Witches' Broom is a localized area on a tree that has, as a result of disease, insect infestation or adverse environmental conditions, developed an abnormally high branch, or tuft of branches, ...
Figure 3. Broom style with weak rootage.
Figure 4. Broom style with nicely balanced roots.
Small hand broom
Small hand broom or brush to smooth off the surface soil after transplanting.
Tweezer
Tweezer for picking dead leaves, sticky needles, pulling weeds or catching insects from a tree. Spatula for removing or pressing soil.
Broom form
――Sweeping the sky
The Hokidachi bonsai gets its name from having a form that looks similar
to a "broom" (hoki) with the brush end "sticking upwards" (dachi). The ...
Tachiki - (Informal upright, the style I feel suits most beginners), Hokidachi - (Broom Style),
Sabamiki - (Split Trunk), ...
All conifers are reasonably unsuitable to the 'broom' style, for example, but are very suitable for all other styles, especially formal and informal upright - to which they are particularly suited.
broom style - A training form for bonsai which resembles an inverted broom with a single trunk dividing into many symmetric branchlets which subdivide into twigs and so forth. See Hokidachi ...
'Skeeter's Broom' - derived from a 'Bloodgood' witch's broom
'Tamukeyama' - finely dissected, dark purple, cascading habit
'Tropenburg' - slender, upright grower, convex lobes, purple leaves ...
The illustration below shows a tree (broom style)in three different pots, the pot on the right is wrong, it's only suited to a cascade style tree. The one in the middle is better, a more appropriate width, length but a bit to deep.
upright or informally upright trunk bare of branches except at the top, characterized by a tasteful simple elegance. hokidachi broom broom style trees have an upright trunk, with branches evenly fanned out.
We’re almost ready, but before we start wiring our Bonsai it’s a good idea to practice on something like a broom stick handle or a naturally growing tree branch, this will make sure you get a sense of the Bonsai wire, ...
Broom-style (especially, elm and zelkova);
Literati/abstract (many trees, especially junipers and pines);
Multiple trunks or multiple tree planting (especially ficus, ginkgo, elm, liquidamber, heavenly bamboo, maple, olive); ...
The Ficus is suited for many different styles of Bonsai: broom, informal and formal upright, root over rock, forest, saikei and others. They are tropical, but a very tough species.
Moo the Dew! ...
One of the trees on display was this magnificent Chinese elm (Ulmus parvifolia). It is shaped in the broom style.
The second gallery was by John Trott of Mendip Bonsai Studio. His display won a Gold Medal and included some wonderful specimens.
The field maple bonsai is naturally inclined in the informal broom style, but it can also be trained in most other styles. The exception is the literati style.
- Your bonsai elm will look spectacular in a Formal or Informal Upright style. However, Elms also suit broom styles. The great thing about the elm is that you can do almost anything with them.
So what are you waiting for? Go and start one! ...
In nature, succulents follow such bonsai styles as broom, informal upright, slanted, prostrate, semicascade, windswept, literati, and grotesque.
A good example is a broom design. The tree has been designed around particular or dominant characters of either trunk, rootage or branch structure. It should be recognized as a free form of formal upright.
This releases the buds at the base of the needles, and often it releases almost ALL of them, so a typical response is produce a 'broom like' effect with very many shoots just below the cut, one for each needle.
exist, including 'Meyeri', 'Blue Carpet' and 'Blue Star'. Blue Carpet is a prostrate variety that is especially suitable for cascade and semi-cascade styles. Other varieties can be used for any style other than broom.
 See also: Bonsai, Tree, Style, Trunk, Plant
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