Picea Abies Nidiformis Bonsai

The shrub gets its common name from a depression in the center that makes it look like a bird s nest.
Picea abies nidiformis bonsai. Spruce picea abies often termed common spruce or norway spruce. Often grown in dwarf form little gem maxwellii. Spruces can become 60 m 200ft tall when mature and have a typical conical shape. Description a slow growing dwarf cultivar that is appropriately named bird s nest spruce due to the depression nest in the middle of its tight compact mounded habit.
Picea abies nidiformis is a very well known nesting form of norway spruce. Premiered may 26 2020 i m doing some spring pruning and clean up on my bird s nest spruce picea abies nidiformis bonsai. It make a low flat topped densly layered mound of light green cascading needles. The tree a birds nest spruce picea abies nidiformis as bought to the demonstration by president of the bonsai society of greater hartford bob neems.
Its new foliage emerges lime green in spring. The spruce is an evergreen coniferous tree genus which is widespread in the northern hemisphere. Foliage is dark green flattened needle like. Suited to all styles except broom.
Don howse of porterhowse farms adds that the nest in the center may disappear with age. Their needle shaped leaves are are four sided and attached singly to the branches. The branches are spreading horizontal to slightly ascending making its form a dense broad rounded shrubby flattened globe. Today s update is my american elm that i dug up from the front garden.
Nidiformis spruce picea abies nidiformis. Grown for its beautiful foliage. Collected in a garden in switzerland. Spruce picea care guide for the spruce bonsai tree.
Bird s nest spruce bonsai tree picea abies nidiformis bird s nest spruce bonsai tree. Has orange brown bark when young which turns to purple grey when mature. Picea abies nidiformis 69 95. This dwarf bird s nest spruce is the best known of all the cultivars of the norway spruce.
It grows as a flat topped spreading shrub with dense horizontal layers of branches becoming much wider than tall with age. Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 to 7. As a fourth generation bonsai grower he is dedicated to furthering the understanding and practice of bonsai directing people away from the notion that it is only a rich or old person s hobby.