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Our Fascination
with Forests Creating a bonsai forest with the
By Danilo Scursatone, Italy
Translation by Danilo Scursatone and Joe Grande
Genotti method
Surely among bonsai compositions, the forest style provides greater understanding and visual impact for the viewer, even for those unfamiliar with bonsai. Immediately, the forest in miniature is able to bring to mind an environment in which at least once in your life you have experienced. You may also recall particular feelings that sometimes conflict: protection or fear, refreshing shade or bitter cold, joy or melancholy... and much more.
The forest can consist of deciduous or coniferous trees of the same species or different species, but with similar biological needs: soil, light, humidity, and all that is indispensable for the life of those species and that which the area, colonized with its macro and micro environment, offers. More often we encounter forests composed of the same species.
Carpinus orientalis forest in 2013.
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