Summer design with exotic: technique of creating...

Summer design with exotic: technique of creating arbosculptures from treesUnusual luggage enticed people at all times. And if amazing forms take trees alive, then to pass such beauties no one will pass phlegmatic. One of the jewelry trends in landscape art is allowed to call the arbosculpture - feeding trees in the form of chairs, geometric figures, ornate ornament and even people. However, do not confuse the arbosculpture with the topiary and bonsai. These are three different techniques, and what's the difference - we'll figure it out for certain examples. In addition, simple forms of arbosculpture can be done by any summer resident, who will have the patience and patience for molding, grafting and leaving because of his sculptural trees.
Arbosculpture is not a novelty. He was invented again in the second half of the 19th century in America. However, before time, trees grown in the technique of arbosculpture, are found in Europe sometimes, but for the territory of the states of the former Russian Union and are quite considered exotic. For no reason that if you want to amaze all friends and acquaintances, try to make in this technique even one tree. For such a unique chair it will be pleasant to sit not only guests, but also their children, who will make it the main object for the sake of games
The essence of arbosculpture in the book, so that during the process of feeding the plants to give it unusual shapes by curving the trunk, forming branches and, if necessary, vaccinations. For the main eye, the technique looks like a bonsai, where there are also twisted trunks. However, bonsai - the art of feeding small trees with full preservation of the huge signs. And in arbotechnology, the plant is deliberately bent, giving it an unnatural shape.
Different forms are allowed to give to cultures and with help. However, in this case, unique shapes and shapes are obtained due to the invariable shearing of the leaves and thin twigs. And in the arbosculpture leaves do not touch. The task of the gardener is to transform the shape of the trunk, to bend the essence, while he did not manage to grow lighter. At the same time it is allowed to experiment not with one seedling, but unite one into one accord according to 3.4 and more trees. Their trunks are connected by a method of inoculation, and the trees heal themselves wounds, tightly growing well with a friend and forming joint scars at the junction. Vaccinations are used if a sculptural composition is made from several trees, and the shape of the 1st plant is changed by bending the trunk and branches
Which trees are suitable for the sake of arbosculpture?
In order for the tree to endure all the problems that it is enough to subordinate it to the owner, it must first be adapted to the climate of the area. Without cause, which of the most ordinary birches, mountain ash, maples and bird-cherry is easier to make sculptural masterpieces. Fruit-bearing plants also tolerate molding well, but yields will begin to give little later than the usual period: not in 4-5 years (apple-tree), but by the year 7.
Start mastering the latest technology better with the vines or plums. Both of them grow vividly, they get well and do not require special care. If you get a tree in the nursery, then at a time you need to recognize from which edges you are brought. It is better that it be grown for the Russian lands.
An executed inventory of trees that are freely curable can be found in bonsai encyclopaedias, because this technique has received a considerably great reputation and, accordingly, is more broadcast on the web. Byl, pay homage to the one who, for the sake of arbosculpture, needs trees, while bonsai is also subjected to low bushes. To make such food is allowed from any large tree, such as linden, maple or even fruit crops grafted for dwarf stocks
Where to start: simple forms
Sculptural vases from fruit trees
In order for the fruit trees to fit into the view, it is allowed to improve their shape, creating a vase, flower, cup, spiral, etc. from the trunk. In this form they will be decorative at least for some time. It is not difficult to perform a sculpture, however, it will be necessary to make a crown for quite a few seasons.
Stop 1. Frame article
First think through, which forms a pretty tree. We advise you to start with a vase. For this purpose an iron frame in the form of a vase is welded, the height and width of less than 2 meters and set it for the book the place where the tree is to grow. The frame is a ring of meter diameter from below, through which the iron curved pins (6-10 pieces) with imitating the shape of the vase go up.
From the top, all the studs are welded between themselves with the help of the 1st iron ring, in front of 2 meters. You need to install thoroughly, so that the frame does not sag or fool over time. If the skeleton of the bowl acts more than 2 meters wide, then the desire to interfere with the supporting ring in the center, so that the structure is perfectly held shape
Stop 2. Planting the seedlings
Order of work:
According to the center of the lower ring of the frame, a tree is planted. Act this is necessary in the autumn, so that by spring the plant is ingrained.
The seedling is forced to exist one-year-old and grafted for a dwarfish rootstock
Early in spring, cut the full apogee of the seedling, leaving just 30 cm of trunk.
Deprived of a central conductor, that is, the makovka tree will benefit from lateral shoots. They leave only the upper ones, the number of which should be equal to half of the number of iron frame pins. If you have a vase of 10 faces, leave 5 branches, if from 6 to 3. They are allowed to be able to grow freely.
Other branches are cut for the ring.
All summer thereafter, they look because of the growth of the main apical shoots. That branches had a similar thickness, it is allowed to regulate feeding, tilting them in different directions. If the branch of the patient - straighten it like vertically permissible and fix it to the frame. If extremely prominent in width through others - duck horizontally to stop the progress of juices.
Stop 3. Forming the base of the wooden bowl
Deprived of the central conductor, that is, the tree makeweak will benefit the lateral shoots. They leave only the upper ones, the number of which should be equal to half of the number of iron frame pins. If you have a vase of 10 faces, leave 5 branches, if from 6 to 3. They are allowed to be able to grow freely. Other branches are cut for the ring.
All the summer, the next summer is watched due to the growth of the main apical shoots. That branches had a similar thickness, it is allowed to regulate feeding, tilting them in different directions. If the branch of the patient - straighten it like vertically permissible and fix it to the frame. If extremely prominent in width through others - duck horizontally to stop the progress of juices. For the sake of accurate tracking of the beautiful form of the trunk, the entire side shoot should be removed by the way, leaving the stem completely clean, devoid of branches
Stop 4. The frame product from the branches
For a year, the skeletal apical branches are strengthened, hence in spring they are deeply truncated, leaving only a small fraction with 2 kidneys. The rest is taken away.
Of the 2 kidneys will grow new shoots, which will become the facets of the bowl. A separate branch, according to the growth rate, is fixed for the frame pins to give it a serious vertical arrangement. You need to take care of the development of the tree, cut the lateral shoots for the main skeletal branches. Leave for each arboreal"face"in accordance with 3-4 shoots, cutting their peaks before the level of the second through the beginning of the leaf. For them will begin to form fruiting kidneys, and over time your vase will be covered with juicy fruits.
If the main branches reach the upper points of the supporting frame and are lignified, you can eat the iron construction. From this point on, the tree itself is quite enough to own the given shape, and you just need to thin out unnecessary shoots and keep the profits of the tops so that the sculptural effect is not lost.
Constructions from several trees
It is quite easy to create sculptural compositions from several trees. For example, from 4 willows or birches it is allowed to make a spiral stunning beauty. And it's simple:
Preparing the frame. We need to weld a frame of metal in the form of a cylinder. The cylinder consists of similar rings from below and from above (before 2 meters in diameter), and 4 pins between them. Pins must exist welded for a similar distance well-wisher through a friend. Next, around the pins, wrap a thick wire starting from the bottom and winding it for the frame with a spiral about an angle of 40-45 degrees. The gap between the spiral rings is 35-40 cm.
We plant and cut trees. Then plant 4 one-year-old trees according to the outer side of the structure at the points where the support pylons go up. The trunks are fixed to pins so that they develop strictly according to the vertical. Skeletal branches leave just those that are for the level of the passing spiral, and tie them to the wire. Others clean up for the ring. For a trunk of 2 meters in height, you should have approximately 5 branches. In what direction to turn them - look according to the yield of the escape. Much it personally slopes easier, there and fix. Even branches twist a wire spiral, and after 2-3 ages will become lignified. The sprouts that escape through these branches should be removed, so that they do not weaken the gains of the main branches.
If the entire spiral is closed by branches, and they become thick, the wire is removed, and the frame is dismantled. The resulting wood spiral is necessarily enough to stand out in the landscape, causing envy among others. The lower supporting ring of the frame is allowed and not act, if the lateral pins are driven deep into the ground, so that they hold tightly
It seems that you realized from the annotation, starting an architect in your garden is very simple: you just have to have the will and a good welder near your hand who will make the supporting frames.