Bonsai Western Red Cedar

Styling western red wood cedar bonsai duration.
Bonsai western red cedar. Transplant the cedar seedling into a bonsai pot. There is white pine pinus monticola and ponderosa pine pinus ponderosa but above all there is western redcedar thuja plicata. As a native american plant from the pacific northwest whipcord western red cedars perform best in climates with cool summers and regular precipitation. It won t be a world class bonsai but wouldn t this be a good material for a beginner to train on.
I am from the pacific northwest and there are red cedar everywhere. Select an area of the garden which receives full or partial sun ideally with a little afternoon shade during the heat of the day. Y our western red cedar. It develops a brownish tint in winter in the north and is sometimes used in windbreaks or screens.
Bonsaihigh bonsai 572 views. Yamadori collecting bonsai trees from the forest duration. The fruit is a blue berry on female trees and is ornamental when produced in quantity. This is a small landscape using red cedar.
Western nc usda zone 7 8 sep 29 2012. Few branches and keep pinching. Use pruning shears to snip the tips of any lateral roots that twine around the root ball. Examine the root ball while you have it out of the soil.
Evergreen bonsai discussion thuja plicata western red cedar. These specialty pots have wide shallow forms that help to restrict the roots and encourage the stunted growth common in the art of bonsai. As its latin name already indicates western redcedar isn t a true cedar like lebanon atlas or deodar but rather an arborvitae. Red cedar is an evergreen growing 40 to 50 feet tall in an oval columnar or pyramidal form very diverse and spreading 8 to 15 feet when given a sunny location.
Height 36 width 26 species.