Blue Spruce Bonsai Training
Its stiff horizontal branches produce bluish green rigid needles that create a dense cone shaped canopy.
Blue spruce bonsai training. Do major pruning in early fall when wounds will bleed less. A colorado blue spruce bonsai is a living miniature tree and not a house plant. In this episode bjorn discussed design principles of a chuuhin colorado blue spruce bonsai. Specific bonsai care guidelines for the spruce bonsai tree position.
Learn how to navigate difficult design hurdles in this newest episode of bonsai u. Just the continued work of how to create a bonsai tree using nursery stock from garden centers. Never remove all needles. It thrives best in moist soil but adapts well to period of drought.
Never remove all needles. This bonus episode of bonsai u features the styling of a colorado blue spruce bonsai planted on a lace rock. In winter it should be placed in semi shade and frost protection is recommendable when the tree is planted in a bonsai pot because frozen roots can t provide water while the evergreen foliage continues to transpire and can desiccate. The spruce needs a place in full sun during the growing season.
Their natural cone shaped growth pattern makes it difficult to style and create a new ramification and they certainly don t backbud or get wired easily thus. Even though a spruce bonsai can take a fair amount of work and patience to deal with if properly styled it can grow to be one of the most sublime and majestic bonsai trees ever seen. Therefore your bonsai must be maintained in a cool cold environment during the winter season. This tree was originally collected in the rocky mountains just outside of denver colorado at at elevation of 5500 feet.
Commonly referred to as the colorado blue spruce the blue spruce is an evergreen of the pine family.