Plum Cedar Bonsai

About the chinese sweet plum bonsai tree.

Plum cedar bonsai. How to prune your blue atlas cedar as a giant bonsai depends on its type. The sweet plum will wilt and die if allowed to dry out completely. Transfer the cedar to the bonsai pot planting it in coarse well drained soil with a high sand content. Conifer evergreen shrub tree 5 ft 1 5 tall but may finally reach 30 ft 10 m conical habit very compact densely branches.

The fruit is small and edible tasting sweet as the name suggests. The dwarf plum also called the natal plum is a dense closely branched spiny evergreen tree which is native to tropical and subtropical regions of africa australia and asia. Chamaecyparis thyoides ericoides plum cedar thread starter greenhorn321. Messages 15 reaction score 0 location sonoma ca usda zone 9b may 3 2012.

It is one of the best choices when growing conifers in containers and is frequently used for bonsai because of its thick trunk and branches and for how easily it can be shaped. Start date may 3 2012. The more sunlight and warmth your bonsai receives the more often it will need water. Firm the surface of the soil in the pot and spread a 1 2 inch layer of sphagnum moss over the surface.

It grows to a mature height of 30 and a width of 10. The fluffy foliage consists of needles which are 5 1 0 in length. The flowering sweet plum is a rhamnacae family of trees native to southern china. Wilting can be recovered from only by a very healthy tree.

Its evergreen and the flowers are small and inconspicuous. Glauca as a tall upright tree will likely look best pruned to a formal upright form which will. Leaves are a juvenile form needles known as heath leaved soft to the touch in whorls of 3 outspread about 6 mm long blue green in summer and red brown to reddish violet in winter. Sun best in moist sandy soil.

Most bonsai can be repotted during the winter but the best period for this is the weeks immediately prior to the early spring revival when you judge that there is no longer a danger of intense cold that could damage the roots. The sweet plum can usually recover as the tree buds easily from old wood new wood and its roots. Step 3 prune your cedar tree to begin forming the desired shape. Japanese plume cedar is often found in japanese gardens planted near japanese maples as the two species compliment each other very well with their finely detailed foliage.

Plume cedar also known as plume cryptomeria is a dense slow growing evergreen conifer with tiered branches and feathery blue green foliage during the summer which turns a mahogany red color in the winter.