raft planting - juniper
Commonly a forest bonsai is created from several small plants of the same variety. There is another way to create a group of trees, to resemble what would happen in nature.
Elm Raft Bonsai Progression Series
Looking at the original images of this Field Elm (Ulmus minor), taken just after I bought it in the Summer of 2005, it is hard to understand what potential I saw to inspire me purchase it in the first place! ...
Raft-style, or Netsuranari, bonsai mimic a natural phenomenon that occurs when a tree topples onto its side (typically due to erosion or another natural force). Branches along the top side of the trunk continue to grow as a group of new trunks.
Raft:
Multi trunks coming from a horizontal-connecting base. In nature caused by a tree falling over or suckering from the original tree.
Raft Bonsai style
Ikadabuki
Sometimes a cracked tree can survive by pointing its branches upward. The old root system can provide the branches with enough nutrients.
Raft style bonsai are bonsai which mimic a natural phenomenon where a tree which has been toppled (typically due to erosion or another natural force) begins to grow a new root system out of the part of the trunk that is in contact with the ground.
Raft Style (Korabuki Style)
Raft Style imitates trees in nature that have fallen down and the branches on one side have continued to grow as individual trees.
Raft (Netsuranari) - Shoots sprouting from surface roots, or roots sprouting from a fallen trunk
Root Over Rock (Seki-jo-ju)
Rock Clinging (Ishi-zuke) - Tree growing in crevice in rock ...
A raft style tree planted on a slab
You should not be in to much of a hurry to get your tree into a proper pot, remember that doing so will restrict the roots and slow down the development of a tree that is still in training.
The raft style of old bonsai tree art is meant to imitate the growth of a tree that has fallen and the side of the tree has taken root and continued to grow. In this style the original root system is left intact.
The "raft" bonsai style. The plant is planted sideways with some of the branches showing out of the soil. These branches are the future trees. Special form of the Yosu-Ue (wood) style.
Iki michi
The live part of the trunk. (See also Jin and Shari).
ikada raft
Similar in effect to netsuranari, but typically with one straight horizontal root joining the trees. This is usually accomplished by burying a larger tree horizontally and then training each branch as a separate tree.
fukinagashi Windswept ...
For the raft style of bonsai, you would have something very unique in that a new root system actually grows out of the existing trunk. In most cases, this particular style of bonsai is planted along with the original root system still in place.
Korabuki (Raft)
In nature, trees are not simply blown by wind and rain, but often completely knocked down. Rains softens the ground, roots grow close to the surface, and the earth has small underground holes.
As with the raft and group styles, the trunks should have similar movement and characteristics but must also vary in thickness.
YOSE-UE ...
Raft Style copies that tree we've all seen that has fallen over and the branches on one side have all grown as individual trees. In this first style the trunk rest partially below the soil level.
Bonsai Tree Styles: Raft - tree lying on its side with branches growing from the trunk to form a group of trees
Bonsai Tree Styles: Weeping - informal upright tree with branches weeping vertically - usual willow, birch or tamarix ...
Korabuki Bonsai Style - Commonly called the Raft
In their natural environment, trees are effected by all types of weather conditions, but often they are completely vulnerable to the underlying soil.
A traditional Japanese bonsai style; also called raft. Where the tree is laid
on its side and its branches are trained vertically and arranged in a group
formation.
Ishitsuki, Ishitzuki ...
raft style - a bonsai style in which multiple trunks grow in a line from a connected base.
ramification - the development of a twigging structure by a series of divisions of branches into twigs and twiglets ...
Q. Are some shapes rarer than others?
A. Styles such as cascade, root over rock and raft styles are much harder to create. Nurseries that sell these types of Bonsai charge high prices and they can be very hard to maintain.
MISTLETOE. I think it would be interesting to have a mistletoe as a bonsai. You could airlayer the branch it is on and either plant it as a raft style or have both the parent plant and the mistletoe growing together as in nature.
Wrightias are formed into upright, hollow trunk, forest, rock planted and every other conceivable style. The natural growth pattern of Wrightias is to produce many basal shoots so sprout, raft , and clump styles are quite logical and easily designed.
 See also: Bonsai, Trunk, Plant, Cascade, Style
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