Western Red Cedar Bonsai
Where to get one.
Western red cedar bonsai. I have been working on a few cedars to date and my advise is to keep it simple. Select an area of the garden which receives full or partial sun ideally with a little afternoon shade during the heat of the day. As a native american plant from the pacific northwest whipcord western red cedars perform best in climates with cool summers and regular precipitation. Bonsaihigh bonsai 572 views.
Y our western red cedar. Bonsai talk 94 904 views. Styling western red wood cedar bonsai duration. There are some sources for seeds for the atlas cedar and the lebanon cedar if you wish to try your hand at growing one from seed.
However they will be closing for good and every tree was either sold being held or not for sale. Evergreen bonsai discussion thuja plicata western red cedar. The fruit is a blue berry on female trees and is ornamental when produced in quantity. It develops a brownish tint in winter in the north and is sometimes used in windbreaks or screens.
Cedar trees are rarely sold as bonsai. Transfer the cedar to the bonsai pot planting it in coarse well drained soil with a high sand content. A close relative eastern whitecedar thuja occidentalis is a popular tree for bonsai on the east coast and in canada. Because it is very cold hardy drought tolerant and relatively fast growing.
Few branches and keep pinching. 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. Western redcedar thuja plicata i bought from a nursery in vermont.
Step 3 prune your cedar tree to begin forming the desired shape. Firm the surface of the soil in the pot and spread a 1 2 inch layer of sphagnum moss over the surface. The deodar cedar is particularly popular in the western u s. While western redcedar doesn t seem to be used much as bonsai material there are so many of them at my in laws that i decided to collect two of them to experiment on down the line.