Bonsai Dogwood

Therefore when you choose a dogwood for your new bonsai tree you ll have selected a striking tree variety to train. The trunk of this tree has exfoliating bark which gives it an old look very early. Yet they re uncommon as bonsai.

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After the flowers die back a large red berry remains.

Bonsai dogwood. If when you bought the dogwood it had a specific cultivar name beyond flowering dogwood then it most likely was grafted. But it does look grafted to me. In the spring the dogwood sprouts blossoms of perfumed flowers prior to its yearly spring greenery. It ships in september.

As a guide around thanksgiving day it is time to prepare your bonsai for its winter dormancy period which should last approximately three 3 months. I ve been wanting a dogwood bonsai for a while now mostly because the town we live in milwaukie oregon minutes outside of portland is known as the dogwood city of the west. Dogwood bonsai trees are miniature versions of the outdoor dogwood trees complete with blooms. Dogwood trees are native to eastern asia and make for gorgeous bonsai trees.

I bought this roughleaf dogwood cornus drummondii back in may and i ve been waiting for it to get stronger in the apex before working on it. The flowering dogwood cornus florida is a southern icon. These trees produce large four petaled flowers in late spring producing an extremely flashy tree. Instead it is the bonsai pruning techniques and the small pots of bonsai dogwoods that keep them small.

Yet as bonsai they re hard to come by and not so easy to develop. Dogwood cornus is one of those species that just about anyone you ask would say they d love to have one. You can see why i got it it s got killer bark and deadwood. The dogwood releases deep green vegetation that shifts to fall shades of red and purple.

Don t get me wrong i love both species but each has its own features. Does design drive the tree or tree drive the design. The graft is low it is not creating a visual problem so it is perfectly acceptable as bonsai. Not seeing the tree in person i am only guessing.

If you re interested in native species as bonsai this tree is available at our miscellaneous bonsai page. This tree was imported by joe harris which he used as a demo tree at a 2007 bonsai society of portland convention in vancouver washington. A kousa dogwood bonsai is a living miniature tree and not a house plant. You can start dogwood bonsais from a dogwood tree in your yard because there is no such thing as a bonsai tree seed.

Roughleaf dogwood is much easier to develop into a well ramified specimen than its cousin the flowering dogwood. Therefore your bonsai must be maintained in a cool cold environment during the winter season.