Progress Of The Bald Cypress With The New Front
I'm sure you all remember this Bald Cypress, Taxodium Distichum, which I defoliated on July 14th. You were kind enough to help me pick the new front of the tree. It's surprising to many folks that established BC can be defoliated in summer, but the fact is it not...
Another Cypress Gets Defoliated
We started following the tale of this Bald cypress, Taxodium distichum, in early 2015. This is a big cypress with the classic fluting, in this case fluting that runs high on the trunk. These trees really make a statement! ...
Bald Cypress – Help Me Find The Front
Last week I posted the latest work on this Bald cypress, Taxodium distichum. I defoliated and moved it from the growing tub I had it in - because last year it suffered with chlorosis and needed some nursing - back into its wonderful Chuck Iker home. This is the...
Bald Cypress Defoliation, Wiring And Potting
Last year this Bald cypress, Taxodium distichum, suffered a bout of chlorosis. This is a condition that isn't predictable or readily explainable - the causes are well enough known, but you can have a single specimen on your benches suffer under the same growing...
Bald Cypress Work – 2016 – Part 3
We've been following the development of this bald cypress, Taxodium distichum, since last year when I first collected and direct-potted it. BC grow so quickly that it's very easy to develop them completely in a bonsai pot, provided of course you begin with a suitable...
Water-Elm ‘Root Around Cypress Knee’ Repotting
I posted this fall shot of my 'Root Around Cypress Knee' Water-elm, Planera aquatica. The tree had been in its pot for a couple of years. Because I had not been able to give it a lot of room during the first potting, I didn't want to wait another year to cut back...
Collecting Season Goes Out With A BC Bang
Today officially closed the Winter 2016 collecting season. I needed a few more bald cypresses - it looks like being a banner year for interest in the species - and this time of year is right at the end of viability for collecting them. In fact, most of the ones I...
Bald Cypress Work – 2016 – Part 2
As with most bonsai in development, timing is critical as you move from new collect to recovered specimen and on to initial design steps. With bald cypress, timing is perhaps more critical than with most species since it grows so vigorously once it recovers from...
Winter Collecting Season Nearing An End – Spring’s Coming Early
I've felt for some time now that spring would be coming early this year. Turns out I was right. I had bald cypresses budding a couple of weeks ago, which isn't surprising for trees "remembering" where they came from south of here, but yesterday I noticed that most...
Bald Cypress Work – 2016 – Part 1
Some of you may recall this bald cypress, Taxodium distichum, last reported on in February of 2015. I had previously potted it in this awesome Chuck Iker round, and it was time to do some serious styling. This was the result. Then I encountered a problem during the...