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bald cypress
2019 BC Collecting Trip #1
Bald cypress should be in every bonsai enthusiast's collection. But even more, a collected Bald cypress bonsai should be in everyone's collection. BC is one of our specialties at Bonsai South. Each year we do our best to find and lift really high quality raw...
A Few Trees At Year-End
Chinese elm, Ulmus parvifolia, is commonly called Lacebark elm. This common name was given due to the fact that the species exfoliates its bark annually, revealing a lovely underlayer with a nice orangey-salmonish color. I was cleaning up this specimen today...
A Big BC For 2019
We're getting close to Bald cypress collecting season for 2019, so I thought it would be a good time to take a look at a tree I've had on the bench for a couple of years. This is a big boy. The trunk is 6" across 6" above the soil, and it's 26" to the chop. ...
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huckleberry
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riverflat hawthorn
Spring Bonsai Fun – Part 1
We're once again at that time of year when new trees are coming out and demanding to be worked on. You may remember this "twin-stick" in a pot, a neat little parsley hawthorn, Crataegus marshallii. Although you can see the terrific trunk character in this small...
Hawthorn Work And Other Notes
As spring gets cranked up and trees get more active, the pace of bonsai activities ramps up accordingly. Since the hawthorns seem to be waking up first, I decided to do some cleaning and planning for the coming season. This Mayhaw, Crataegus aestivalus, has been in...
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...
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willow oak
Lifting A Water Oak – How To Make Decisions Step By Step
It's that time of year, time to start collecting next year's crop of trees. Today I lifted this Water oak, Quercus nigra. When you venture out to collect your own trees, you'll make decisions all the way from selecting suitable specimens to preparing them for...
Big Cypress Gets Worked On Today – Planning For Next Year
It's been a while since I updated the development of my big Bald cypress, Taxodium distichum. This is year two following collection in Winter 2015. Here's a photo of the tree in February of last year, just when it was pushing its first buds. ...
Bonsai Planning – How To Make The Plan Fit Reality
If you develop bonsai from the most basic level, meaning either from the field-grown tree or a collected specimen, there's usually a plan of some sort that presents itself from the start. Usually your idea goes about the way you think it will, but just as we've seen...
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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.