White Spruce Bonsai
It is also known as canadian spruce skunk spruce cat spruce black hills spruce western white spruce alberta white spruce and porsild spruce.
White spruce bonsai. Used as a christmas tree cultivars used in bonsai. The miniature alberta spruce is great for a beginner due to its care hardiness and ease of training. Specific bonsai care guidelines for the spruce bonsai tree. This gives the bonsai a fuller look.
The tree thrives outdoors and likes full sun when possible. Spruce has scaling or flaking bark and in general its needles are short enough for use in most sizes of bonsai with many dwarf varieties available. It has sharp blue green needles and green cones that turn brown when matured. In winter it should be placed in semi shade and frost protection is recommendable when the tree is planted in a bonsai pot because frozen roots can t provide water while the evergreen foliage continues to transpire and can desiccate.
Branches are flexible and can easily be trained downwards to form a simple formal upright tree. The miniature spruce bonsai is an evergreen which produces single needles that grow around the branch. The tree color can vary from dark green through all shades of blue green to powder white blue. The spruce needs a place in full sun during the growing season.
It is native to the western united states primarily in the rocky mountains but can also be found in the northeastern united states as well as eastern canada. After 10 years of growth a mature specimen will measure 2 feet 60 cm tall and 1 foot 30 cm wide an annual growth rate of 2 to 3 inches 5 7 5 cm. To maintain the health of a spruce bonsai in the contained growing environment you will need to supplement the soil. The bark of mature white spruce is scaly or flaky grey brown brayshaw 1960 or ash brown harlow and harrar 1950 but silvery when freshly exposed.
Pendula or weeping white spruce. It is very reliable and disease resistant. North star compact white. Albertiana daisy s white is a dwarf conical selection of alberta spruce with compact dense branching and needles that flush pale yellow slowly changing to white yellow and finally light green by the end of summer.
During the winter months the spruce will need watering less often. Spruce bonsai trees require soil that is kept moist but never saturated. A distinctive and adored species is the white spruce which has a strong and refreshing aroma. Due to the branch formation in whorls and natural tendancy of some spruce species towards pyramidal growth the spruce can be a difficult bonsai subject.
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