Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana Ellwoodii Bonsai

Tiny red male cones are conspicuous in a few cultivars.

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ellwoodii bonsai. I know it needs a bigger pot now i m sorry to say i got side tracked with a trip. I didn t do eather and it had been doing very well until last month. Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ellwoodii is a staple of the nursery industry a familiar neat cone of bluish green juvenile foliage when young. Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ellwoodii lawson s cypress ellwoodii will reach a height of 8m and a spread of 2 5m after 20 50 years.

Group planting one day many years ago i noticed a neighbour pruning a specimen dwarf cypress which was growing in his front garden. Conifer evergreen shrub 6 10 ft 1 8 3 m narrowly upright conical densely arranged and ascending branches thin blue green branchlets. Reddish brown bark and bright green foliage with purplish brown cones. Highly decorative chamaecyparis lawsoniana ellwoodii lawson cypress is an upright evergreen shrub of dense columnar habit with short sprays of soft feathery silver blue foliage turning steel blue in winter.

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ellwoodii grow and care tree of the genus chamaecyparis also known as ellwoodii plant portor ford cedar ellwoodii chamaecyparis lawsoniana ellwoodii perennial evergreen pinophyta used as ornamental hedge plant and can be bonsai can grow in temperate or subtropics climate or indoor as houseplant with the right care and growing in hardiness zone 5 10. Family cupressaceae genus chamaecyparis are evergreen trees usually of narrowly ovoid or columnar outline with much branched sprays of small scale like leaves and small globose cones. Reminiscent of a juniper. There are several hundred cultivars of this species.

Very versatile it is a popular choice in a number of gardens. It says chamaecyparis lawsoniana ellwoodii the little tab also says you could plant it out side or move it to a larger pot after the holidays. Slow growing 1 6 in. 2 5 15 cm per year.

Leaves have a needle awl form i e tapering to a slender stiff point blue green becoming steel blue in fall. I asked if i could have one of the branches that had been removed so that i could take some cuttings. Lawson cypress port orford cedar neither a cedar nor a cypress it is hardy in zones 6 8. Here is a brief photographic guide to a chamaecyparis lawsoniana as a bonsai which was exhibited this year at chelsea flower show.

Original tree purchased from a garden centre and initially worked on and placed in a bonsai training pot the tree over ten years on now developed with a full canopy of lush green foliage.