Interesting styling.

[Beng]

Skip to 1:29 seconds. Looks like an alternative bending technique, haven't seen it done this way before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTZsCeiag1Y

 

[dpowell]

I'm pretty sure it's used to keep old brittle branches from breaking from the weight of the snow. It's mostly used for landscape plants.

 

[GrimLore]

In the northeast similar is used on landscape for certain. Much like "racking" a tree it could be of some use in Bonsai

 

[Poink88]

Are you sure they are not just setting up Christmas trees? LOL

Neat!

 

[jk_lewis]

The Japanese use all sorts of labor intensive procedures to protect trees from the elements. This one is in a Tokyo Japanese garden.

 

[Poink88]

The Japanese use all sorts of labor intensive procedures to protect trees from the elements. This one is in a Tokyo Japanese garden.

I've seen you post this before (as well as the shots w/ you and your wife). Simply amazing. Thanks for sharing.

 

[JudyB]

The Japanese use all sorts of labor intensive procedures to protect trees from the elements. This one is in a Tokyo Japanese garden.

Does the covering stay on the tree always? I don't get it, at that point it stops being a tree for me.

 

[Smoke]

Does the covering stay on the tree always? I don't get it, at that point it stops being a tree for me.

Man's egregious and arrogant attempt at saving everything. Hmmm...Nobody gave a rats ass 359 million years ago when all the earths flora dissappeared?

course... now we burn it as coal. I guess thats good.

 

[MACH5]

I'm pretty sure it's used to keep old brittle branches from breaking from the weight of the snow. It's mostly used for landscape plants.

That is correct. It is very, very common to see this sort of thing being done to large trees in Japan. It is not a bending technique but a labor intensive method of protecting old branches from breaking. In some cases large bamboo stakes are also used. In many ways there is something beautiful about the way it is done.

 

[GrimLore]

We create windbreaks with burlap and wooden stakes from the farm supply. Less elaborate for certain

 

[fredtruck]

Really, I think the Japanese do this propping up of a tree out of reverence for it. It's very hard to understand for us because we don't have animism as part of our culture.