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In these last years the heather is becoming more and more object for the creations of the artists bonsai
Also because in nature they find of very beautiful and it suits very well him for the cultivation bonsai.

Heather is a kind of the family Ericaceae, that understands around 700 evergreen kinds to shrubby gait. The kind treated in these pages is The heather arboreal typical element of the Mediterranean stain. It is an evergreen bush, from the reddish bark, to erect gait. It has numerous branches, also them to erect gait almost always. The leaves are to needles, persistent and leathery, dark green. It loves the sour and well drained grounds. He/she prefers an exposure of light shade.
And' advisable as it regards the temperature not to go down under the 6-7° and not to overcome the 20°. If the temperatures are taller we can help the plant increasing the rate of damp. To maintain the damp ground without excesses and stagnations of water.Particular fertilizers are not in demand .

The heather in a Celtic custom is set to watch of the solstice in summer period in which it reaches the most complete flowering. It is connected both to the afther-life and to the love. You narrates that the witches exploited the powers of the heather to come into contact with the fairies and the spirits of the nature.

The workmanship of the heather a little draws near to that some juniper, only in the application of the thread and therefore in the following modeling it needs to be very careful because the branches of the heather unlike those of a juniper are very malleable, for which a minimum of carelessness and the branch he breaks. The appointment and the concentration in the application of the thread have to be total.

They creates jin from the cut branches and those that are already they clean him making them proportionate to the whole. In short the artist doesn't have to skip nothing because every also small detail is important for the final sketch. Obviously the whole dry part at the end will be treated with liquid jin.
After the part it dries up himself/herself/themselves it passes to the cleaning of the bark. They eliminates the most superficial flakes and they is smoothed the alive veins with paper thin glass, so that to exalt the reddish color underlining the torsions of the I live that all the ancient plants have.

The plant in matter has been picked in 2007 to the beginning in the spring. Harvest hardly underlined good potentialities.
It is a tall plant around 40 Cm. Its workmanship is not of those spectacular but not for this less binding. Rather I believe that the artist in these situations has to look for and to create in the various operations that particular that make the already interesting plant, an unique sample. For this first it effects that is him a cleaning of the head of hair the pruning or the elimination of vegetation that it doesn't reenter in the project in style Han Kengai. After that it effects him the cleaning and the workmanship of the dry wood which it has to be always Carthusian.
Then with brushes, gouges and knife rotten parts are eliminated so that the signs of the events and the time to make more evident. At times use to clean, also splinters of glass which very sharp they don't leave signs of the operated one. In my creations I always try to work and to create the parts hand shoals avoiding electric tools getting to my notice a more natural result.

Now the whole plant is clean in all of its parts and modeled so that to make what represents the Sabi in this art, whose meant it alludes to the condition of objects that you/they have signs of lived life and crossed times. Objects you don't wear out and that don't report the weight of past times and put together but that they are introduced consumed clean and I soaked with life.