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This is recombobulated from post #233, "What’s your latest Bonsai related purchase?" thread so as to provide a place for others to commit the same crime against nature and bonsai.
It's Christmas time so the stores are selling these Cupressus macrocarpa 'Wilma'/ Wilma Monterey cypress retailers call Lemon Cypress. They have tiny foliage and I have always wondered if they would make good bonsai. I'm going to find out.
I haven't looked inside, but it has some modest wood so I will make it whatever size the wood inside there supports. I don't buy stock to grow into bonsai, I make bonsai out of the size I buy and then then they mature into what the species will, and given that, I will wire the branches and trim back to where the foliage has to start so that it will finish at some shape that will be believable. Sometimes it works, and sometimes....
I looked around trying to find examples of these as bonsai and found zero that I would condescend to call starters. There were some that others thought were "bonsai", but we all know how abused the term is. We shall see what this critter looks like when I butcher it back to something approximating a starting point. I need your prayers.
Anyone with experience or advice should pipe up.
It's Christmas time so the stores are selling these Cupressus macrocarpa 'Wilma'/ Wilma Monterey cypress retailers call Lemon Cypress. They have tiny foliage and I have always wondered if they would make good bonsai. I'm going to find out.
I haven't looked inside, but it has some modest wood so I will make it whatever size the wood inside there supports. I don't buy stock to grow into bonsai, I make bonsai out of the size I buy and then then they mature into what the species will, and given that, I will wire the branches and trim back to where the foliage has to start so that it will finish at some shape that will be believable. Sometimes it works, and sometimes....
I looked around trying to find examples of these as bonsai and found zero that I would condescend to call starters. There were some that others thought were "bonsai", but we all know how abused the term is. We shall see what this critter looks like when I butcher it back to something approximating a starting point. I need your prayers.
Anyone with experience or advice should pipe up.
