Picea Abies Nidiformis Bonsai
Spruce picea care guide for the spruce bonsai tree.
Picea abies nidiformis bonsai. Premiered may 26 2020 i m doing some spring pruning and clean up on my bird s nest spruce picea abies nidiformis bonsai. Its new foliage emerges lime green in spring. This dwarf bird s nest spruce is the best known of all the cultivars of the norway spruce. The tree a birds nest spruce picea abies nidiformis as bought to the demonstration by president of the bonsai society of greater hartford bob neems.
It grows as a flat topped spreading shrub with dense horizontal layers of branches becoming much wider than tall with age. Their needle shaped leaves are are four sided and attached singly to the branches. Has orange brown bark when young which turns to purple grey when mature. Nidiformis spruce picea abies nidiformis.
As a fourth generation bonsai grower he is dedicated to furthering the understanding and practice of bonsai directing people away from the notion that it is only a rich or old person s hobby. Picea abies nidiformis 69 95. Grown for its beautiful foliage. Picea abies nidiformis is a very well known nesting form of norway spruce.
Bird s nest spruce bonsai tree picea abies nidiformis bird s nest spruce bonsai tree. Today s update is my american elm that i dug up from the front garden. The branches grow whorled. Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 to 7.
Bird s nest spruce picea abies nidiformis is a dwarf multistemmed evergreen shrub hardy in u s. Foliage is a refreshing light green color. The spruce is an evergreen coniferous tree genus which is widespread in the northern hemisphere. Often grown in dwarf form little gem maxwellii.
Collected in a garden in switzerland. Spruce picea abies often termed common spruce or norway spruce. Spruces can become 60 m 200ft tall when mature and have a typical conical shape. Suited to all styles except broom.
It make a low flat topped densly layered mound of light green cascading needles. The branches are spreading horizontal to slightly ascending making its form a dense broad rounded shrubby flattened globe. Don howse of porterhowse farms adds that the nest in the center may disappear with age.