Initial styling a yew bonsai | From an overgrown bush into a young bonsai
How do you create a bonsai out of a yew bush? That was the question with which a friend of mine came to me a few weeks ago. I styled this tree for him, and made a video for you.
A full on deadwood styling video of this yew:
0:00 About this taxus bonsai material
1:04 The original unstyled Yew Bonsai Material
1:27 The plan for styling this bonsai
1:48 initial deadwood work
2:25 Wiring the first branches
3:12 About taxus and getting branches to set
3:45 Design Choices. What branches to remove?
6:09 How to wire a yew for backbudding
7:44 Styling of pads and branches.
9:46 Taxus bonsai and creating foliage pads
12:05 First rough styling, ready to do fine wiring
13:00 Yew bonsai design explained
14:52 Newly styled taxus bonsai in spring with new foliage