Flat Top Bald Cypress Bonsai

South florida zone 10b beginner may 2018 50ish trees.

Flat top bald cypress bonsai. With that said the design can stand some tweaking and fall is a perfect time to do it. Here s the second potential front. This is a style of tree not indigenous to my part of the world but one. Or even the bald cypress as a good subject to work with bald cypress have serious dieback every year on the branch tips they grow too fast for some japanese nursery men and they are incredibly apically dominant so much so that you lose bottom branches if you don t keep the top in check and you need to about every 4 5 years chop and regrow the top if it s in the typical conifer.

I think i paid about 100 150 for it and couldn t believe i was making such a large purchase ohh how times have changed. This is a progression thread on a flat top style bald cypress in my collection. One nice feature of this tree is it s got some dead snags on the trunk that i d like to incorporate in the design. At the time this was made this tree was 25 months from being collected.

Focussing on styling bonsai showing member s trees bonsai care and general help. Flat top bald cypress. Log in sign up. Now in the national collection washington d c.

Unfortunately gary only shows the initial development on his styling. This tree is an example of vaughn s work. I am happy with the nebari and the roots below. Here are the initial pictures from october 2016.

This is part 1 of a video that highlights the work done to a bald cypress tree during its journey to becoming a flat top style. After all a flat top cypress is a mature tree which means it s lost its lower branches. Hi all i have been working on developing a flat top bald cypress. Where to go from here.

This is a bald cypress taxodium distichum tree that i have been growing for several years from basically a small twig. It s not uncommon to see dead snags emerging from the trunks of these trees. And it is true that many japanese nursery owners don t accept the flattop style as a bonsai style. When a bald cypress is young it has a pyramidal shape as it ages the top tends to flatten.

Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. This was one of the first trees i ever purchased back in 2016. All of the foliage will be off this tree within the next few days so knocking some off today won t hurt a thing. It was purchased from zach smith at bonsai south.

Vaughn banting 1947 2008 highly respected new orleans bonsai artist was the first to introduce the flat top cypress as a style.