Black Cherry Bonsai

The abundant pink and white flowers are produced in clusters of two to five together at nodes on short spurs in spring.

Black cherry bonsai. Repotting repot once every 2 to 3 years. For about its first decade the bark of a black cherry tree is thin smooth and banded resembling a birch. See more ideas about bonsai cherry bonsai bonsai tree. Your cuts should be smooth or slightly concave so the wound will heal quickly.

Brush cherry grows vigorously and may need to be pruned often to maintain its shape. This variety has very small leaves and slow growth habits making it ideally suited for bonsai. The leaves are long and shiny resembling a sourwood s. Cherries can be purchased in online bonsai stores or grown from seed.

The tree has small oval leaves that vary in colour from very dark green to deep purple depending upon sunlight exposure the more light the darker the colour. Black cherry plum flowering bonsai material. Sit at eye level with your bonsai tree and use bonsai trimming shears. A mature tree has very broken dark grey to black bark.

To maintain shape prune and or wire it in spring. Care guide for the cherry bonsai tree. Prunus cerasifera nigra also known as prunus pissardii nigra is probably the best prunus species to cultivate as bonsai. The dwarf cherry with cataloged latin names of eugenia myrtifolia or syzygium paniculaum is a lovely and fast growing evergreen tree that is native to australia s eastern coastal temperate and tropical rain forests in which it can grow to heights of 20 feet tall.

Few trees exemplify the spirit of japanese bonsai more than a lovely cherry in bloom. The flowers give rise to reddish black berries fed on by birds 5 10 mm 1 4 3 8 in in diameter. Shorten new shoots with 6 to 8 pairs of leaves to 1 to 2 pairs. The cherry bonsai is a difficult tree to keep in shape.

Anitasfarm on tue aug 16 2016 9 51 pm this might be fun to work with as bonsai but no i wouldn t recommend it for a beginner as there is so little specific information on how it reacts in pot culture. If you want your tree to blossom don t prune it for an entire year. Flowering apricot prunus mume a classic herald of spring in japan with simple strongly scented white pink or red flowers which appear singly on the leafless tree and make a lovely contrast to the black gnarled trunks.