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The 2018 Bald Cypress Harvest, Part 1
Once the BC we collect this year start budding, I'll begin sending out advance photos of candidates per your requests. For anyone not currently on our list who would like to be, just send me an email with the size you're looking for and/or budget and I'll add you. ...
Fascinating Facts About 10 Bonsai Species
There's not much growing at this time of year, so I got to pondering some fascinating facts about 10 of the species I grow as bonsai. Here they are, in no particular order. This species produces more trunk buds when collected as bare stumps than just about any other...
Fall Color And Reflection
As the year draws to a close, it's nice to spend some time reflecting on this year's growing season and how it impacted our bonsai. Was it a good year? What new things did you learn? What surprises (good or bad) popped up? It's for sure that you never stop...
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riverflat hawthorn
Repotting A Large Hawthorn
I collected this Mayhaw, Crataegus aestivalus, in 2010 and potted it in this beautiful Byron Myrick oval in 2012. It's grown, from a bare trunk, pretty happily since I first got it. I did a thread-graft to create a second branch (on the left) back in 2011. I think...
Getting Ready For Spring
I've been posting frequently since winter began, but so far I haven't spent any time writing about the activities vital to the pursuit of bonsai that can be done before the first buds swell. To be sure, those of you in the frozen parts of the country may be staring...
Mayhaw Progress
I collected this Mayhaw in January of 2011. It threw lots of shoots, allowing me to wire a good set of branches right away. I also got a good new leader started, that thickened enough to be cut back in year one. By January of 2012, I felt the tree was ready to go...
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willow oak
Willow Oak Update
The saga continues for my awesome willow oak, Quercus phellos. You may remember the tree got its first bonsai pot back in April, which was roughly four years after I'd collected it. The tree had not yet budded out for spring, so I was anxiously waiting to see what...
Bonsai Odds & Ends
Spring is just about over, and that means certain bonsai chores need doing. It's a pretty sure bet that a lot of wire applied in winter-spring is cutting in about now, so going around removing wire is a task that tends to occupy a part of your time over the course of...
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...
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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.