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How To Make Good Material A Lot Better
Here's a Bald cypress I collected in February of 2018. It's a good piece of material, but not a great piece of material. It is nice and big, with a trunk that measures 6.5" across about 6" above the soil. Taper is very good, as you can see. But the trunk, while...
BC Trees With Knees Are The Bee’s Knees
Well, there's nothing like Bald cypress collecting season, and there's certainly nothing like a collected Bald cypress featuring a naturally occurring knee. This is a very substantial specimen, as I'm sure you can tell (the tub is 24" long). Something ran over...
Bald Cypress Progression
Zach's Personal Collection bald cypress Progression Carousel Bald Cypress INSTRUCTIONS: The image has an arrow on both the right and left side. Click the arrow on the right ( > ) to go forward and see the next image(s) in the progression. Click the arrow on...
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huckleberry
What About That Perfect Crape Myrtle Plan? It’s Awesome
Remember how earlier this year I repotted and worked on this legacy Crape myrtle, Lagerstoemia indica, that my friend Allen Gautreau bequeathed me? The large branch in the tree's crown had grown too thick over the years, and needed to be removed. At the time I...
Rip Van Winkle Wakes Up – How To Know When They’re Really Dead
You may remember my wonderful Willow oak, Quercus phellos, from this photo I took last fall. I repotted it last spring, and cut back the lowest right branch hard to improve it, and from there just did some light pinching and pruning through the growing season. This...
Here’s A Pretty Reliable Bonsai Tip You’ll Need Someday
You may recall the hard-pruning I did to Allen's Crape Myrtle back in February when I also repotted the tree. At that time, I pointed out that there was a branch up near the crown of the tree that had grown so heavy it was as thick as the trunk itself. ...
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riverflat hawthorn
What About That Perfect Crape Myrtle Plan? It’s Awesome
Remember how earlier this year I repotted and worked on this legacy Crape myrtle, Lagerstoemia indica, that my friend Allen Gautreau bequeathed me? The large branch in the tree's crown had grown too thick over the years, and needed to be removed. At the time I...
Rip Van Winkle Wakes Up – How To Know When They’re Really Dead
You may remember my wonderful Willow oak, Quercus phellos, from this photo I took last fall. I repotted it last spring, and cut back the lowest right branch hard to improve it, and from there just did some light pinching and pruning through the growing season. This...
Styling A Nice Little Parsley Hawthorn, And A Great One For Me
I was able to collect a few Parsley hawthorns, Crataegus marshallii, this winter. Here's one of the "sticks" that I brought home. Though it was by no means a big one, I was nevertheless excited to find this one because of this very nice trunk movement. Sometimes...
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willow oak
Don’t Ignore Problems At This Time Of Year
As the growing season comes to an end, we have certain chores we do to prepare for winter. Deciduous trees are either in full color or already dropping foliage. Watering needs decline from two or three times daily to once every few days. Cold frames are getting...
I’m Anxious For 2018 To Get Here. How About You?
Okay, I haven't made it through winter yet nor have my trees. In fact, it's just going to actually cool off a little tonight for the first time this fall. But that hasn't stopped me from starting to think about (and plan for) 2018. I collected and grew more trees...
One Of The Big Trees I’m Keeping, An Awesome Bald Cypress
In keeping with the weekend's theme, I wanted to update you on one of the big trees I'm keeping, an awesome Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). The last time I blogged on this one was in July. July is Bald cypress defoliation season. If your tree is in good...
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Hi Zach,
When is the next availability of Bald Cypress. I live in Michigan.
I would like to get one booked.
I am retired from the bonsai business, Aby. Sorry.
Is bald cypress Cypressbonsai20 available for sale?
so this is the 1st time in a while I’ve been to the site just showing it off and im super impressed.
Thank you, Josh!
Zach, I see you train bonsai BC in flat top style but am not sure what to picture. Is it supposed to mimic a tree that lost its conical top from wind damage or lightning? Does it look like a bald head with hair/branches growing out from the sides only? Do you have finished ones like this to show as an example?
Thanks, Danny
Danny, the so-called flat-top Bald cypress is simply an older tree that has lost most of its lower branches as it’s grown taller and older, and having reached its genetically limited height the growth in the crown spreads laterally. Check out this post to get an idea of one in training.