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How To Make Bonsai Lemonade – Part 5
A few weeks ago I posted a blog about a Bald cypress, Taxodium distichum, that I collected in 2015 and that failed to bud all the way up the trunk. I have a couple of others hanging around that I had been planning to make something of. Today it was time to work on...
A Forest For Next Year – And How To Make A Sure-Fire Design
I love forest plantings. With that said, I've seen countless poor forest plantings, and it's all due to poor design. So how do you ensure that your design will pass muster? Is there a formula? Actually, there is. Here's a bald cypress forest I assembled today...
How To Make Bonsai Lemonade – Part 1 Of Part 4
By now you know that I hate to give up on trees that didn't go where they were supposed to when I first brought them home. Not that I never literally chuck out a piece of material, but if there's something work salvaging I keep it on the bench or in a corner waiting...
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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.