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I’d Like Your Opinion On This
After posting yesterday's blog, a reader commented that I should include a standard reference object in order to make it easier to gauge the size of certain trees. Here's a photo of the really big two-tree Bald cypress specimen I showed you yesterday: I've never done...
Great Bald Cypress Material – Collecting Trip 2
So, four days ago we had a couple of inches of snow here, and temperatures around 15°F for a couple of nights. Today it was 60°. That could only mean one thing: go collect more Bald cypress! Here's today's haul. I focused on larger specimens today, which means I...
More Collected BC Fun – Hard Chops And Small Stars
I often get questions about chopping the roots of collected trees, and it seems the question most often asked is, “If you chop the roots back that far, will the tree survive?” The short answer, of course, is always, “Yes, it will.” This is from a lot of experience,...
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Repotting A Large Hawthorn – Six Weeks Later
Back on March 7th I posted a blog on my large hawthorn that needed repotting. You may recall the scarcity of roots on such a large tree four years after collection. Here's what I had to work with: Not much in the root zone, eh? Hawthorns are a bit peculiar in that...
Awesome Willow Oak – First Bonsai Pot
You may remember this Willow oak, Quercus phellos, from past posts. I collected it in Winter 2011, and it responded very well to its new home. After just four years, it had put on branches of decent thickness and more importantly produced a nice new apex that I let...
Time To Start Wiring New Trees
Well, the time has come. Spring budburst has more or less passed, and while quite a few of my trees remain at the budding stage and others are just pushing - this is generally species-dependent - others need to be wired. I had posted this hawthorn when I first...
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Willow Oak – Final Work For 2015
I'm sure you'll remember this willow oak, Quercus phellos, that I potted earlier this year. There are a number of developmental chores I've been working on: building the apex using the grow, clip and wire process; building taper into the tree's branches in the same...
Bonsai And August
Do those two words actually go together? Can you do anything in August besides water your trees and watch them endure the heat? The answer is a qualified yes. To be sure, you don't want to go root-pruning and repotting your deciduous trees in August. Though I...
Water Oak Development
You probably remember this water oak, Quercus nigra, which I first posted last month. I had collected it in Winter 2014 and just let it grow out. As you can see in this first photo, it doesn't look like much. Developing raw stock in the form of "stumps" for bonsai...
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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.