The following are photos of young bonsai plants which I recently wired to shape them
.
1. This is a few months old jasmin plant which was
left to grow freely but now being wired for shaping.
2. Close up of the young bonsai plant showing the wire wrapped
anti-clockwise around the plant. (If you are in the southern hemisphere,
you are recommended to wrap the wire clockwise around the plant.)
(The reason for this recommendation is because creeping plants
in the northern hemisphere will creep anti-clockwise and
those in the southern hemisphere anti-clockwise.
So the idea is to follow nature as much as possible.)
3. Shaping the bonsai according to what I would like it to be in the future.
The idea is to make the tree be as natural as possible
(though the shaping may look drastic)
and to follow the inclination of the plant,
especially when dealing with more mature ones.
The plant above is a few months old and so is still flexible.
4. A slightly different angle of the plant after being shaped.
5. These are two other young bonsai plants, the leaves
of which have been plucked off so that the wiring can be done more effectively.
6. The shaped bonsai seen from the top of the plant.
7. The same plant seen from a lower angle.
8. This plant had two trunks (so to speak) and so I wired both of them as shown above.
9. The plant after being wired, seen from the top.
10. The same plant seen from a different angle.
11. The three bonsai plants after being wired (seen from the top).
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