Tsukumo Cypress Bonsai

Tsukumo cypress are hardy evergreens that are easy to take care of they need moist well drained soil they will grow in full sun to partial shade and live outside in zones 4 8.

Tsukumo cypress bonsai. Tsukumo sawara cypress dwarf conifer. Many people think that changing the varieties of fertilizer they use upon their bonsai. Having said that it s a nice looking little tree. New to hobby tsukumo sawara cypress questions 4 years 1 month ago 22245 i came across this tsukumo sawara cypress at a garden center last week and could not resist taking it home.

Wed may 14 2014 1 10 am. Product description this three year old pre bonsai conifer is well rooted in a bonsai training pot and is ready to be transplanted into your bonsai planter. At first glance it bears more a resemblance to a moss covered rock than a conifer. Very hardy tough and resilient cultivar.

A dwarf japanese false cypress. A handsome little shrub with tiny green needles and a wide rounded habit. The tsukumo is a hardy dwarf evergreen tree that needs like most bonsai to be kept outdoors in order to go dormant. Tsukumo is an extremely slow growing globose dwarf shrub that typically grows to only 10 tall over the first 20 years.

I am new to bonsai and never had a small tree like this before. Fine textured medium green needles are tinted blue beneath. Proper epithet is chamaecyparis pisifera tsukumo. Not a cypress cupressus it s a false cypress cultivar.

Congrats and good luck. The soil seems to be watered enough and possibly it is due to over watering. Plant habit is that of an irregular flat topped bun. Taking into consideration you ve ruled those out examine the total amount of fertilizer in supplement to your soil.

Dense foliage and tidy compact cushion shape makes a nice contrast to the groundcovers and flowering plants in the garden.