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bald cypress
Water-Elm Collecting Trip 3
Today we got an earlier start so we could beat the heat. We also benefited from cloud cover during most of the lifting. The results would have been just as good, but it's always nice when you don't have to suffer so much. Let's start off with this clump-style...
Here’s Something Expected, And Something Unexpected
We've been following along with the development of this Crape myrtle, Lagerstroemia indica, for a couple of months now. It's a small specimen that I made from a venerable old Crape left to me by my friend Allen Gautreau. I love the trunk of this literati bonsai, and...
Watch Me Wire The Big BC – It’s Progress!
Last week I defoliated this very large Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). Not surprisingly, the tree is already showing new buds. The wiring needed to be done now! Here's the step by step work I did on this tree. When you defoliate any tree, it gives you the...
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huckleberry
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riverflat hawthorn
“Capturing” The Hibernating Tree
A comment was just posted yesterday which posed the simple question, "The tree will grow on from that few roots?" The question was prompted by this photo: Well, there's not much left of this riverflat hawthorn, right? Just what the bonsai artist needs, of course,...
Hurray For Hawthorns!
Today was a nice, chilly winter day. It wasn't too cold, nor was it rainy, so you're basically talking about perfect collecting weather. I gather most of my deciduous material in January and February each year, and that includes hawthorns. Most of my collecting...
A Few Winter Silhouettes
It's still a couple of weeks before the official start of winter, but I'm very close to having benches full of winter silhouettes. This is one of the reasons I love deciduous trees. You definitely get four full seasons out of them, from spring budding through summer...
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willow oak
Working On A Few Bonsai
With spring growth soon to give way to summer growth or doldrums, depending on the species, today it was time to work on a few trees. The first was this Chinese privet, Ligustrum sinense, that I collected this past winter. It got an initial styling last month, and...
Bonsai Odds & Ends – May 22, 2016
When we create and maintain our bonsai, we never work on them every day. No matter whether it's potting, wiring, pruning, or even pinching, bonsai is a "go and stop" endeavor. This excludes watering, of course. I highly recommend you water your trees daily (this is...
Live Oak Work – 2016 – Part 1
Back in January I collected four large live oaks, Quercus virginiana, from a good bonsai friend's property. Collectible live oaks are not that plentiful where I live, despite the fact that we have some of the most magnificent old specimens anywhere. Given the...
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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.