Fidur
Chumono
When I begun to buy trees, I was spices guided by what I could read in the internet. Yes, I'm very new to bonsai, but in the last year I've been working with something like 25 species of trees, including some very popular in bonsai, junipers, pines, maples, elms, olives, .....
After this time, I can now recognize what a difficult species means (my most difficult tree till now is the chamaecyparis lawsoniana elwodii ), but what I couldn't anticipate is that the "best for me" could be one hardly listed anywhere as a bonsai friendly species.
I'm talking about my chamaecyparis thyoides rubicon (White atlantic cedar "rubicon").
I bought it in a nursery (8$), but it came to that nursery as a lone specimen mixed with other conifers, and never before and I guess never again it will be avalaible. When I asked about it in the nursery they said they didn´t know what it was or why it was there (I bought yesterday a japonicus cryptomeria because it resembled the look of it).
This species (at least where I live) has had no pests or bugs. If you cut anywhere in the tree, it will back bud and grow. Also the cutting will root without problem (I have 22 rooted cuttings from this).
I you try to bend any gauge of branch, you'll see it can be done without any hassle. It has natural tapering and its foliage is very attractive. It turns reddish in fall (not in my climate though). The problems I can forsee are that it has only 2-3 inches heigth of annual growth and maybe it doesn´t behave as well as here in other climates.
The only refferences I have found about this species are :
1) An old entry in a bonsai page: https://browardbonsai.com/2011-trees-of-the-month
2) A youtube video from a colombian owner:
So, I must say this is an underated species, and if you ever find one it's worth a try.
Which species do you think are also underrated in the bonsai world?
After this time, I can now recognize what a difficult species means (my most difficult tree till now is the chamaecyparis lawsoniana elwodii ), but what I couldn't anticipate is that the "best for me" could be one hardly listed anywhere as a bonsai friendly species.
I'm talking about my chamaecyparis thyoides rubicon (White atlantic cedar "rubicon").
I bought it in a nursery (8$), but it came to that nursery as a lone specimen mixed with other conifers, and never before and I guess never again it will be avalaible. When I asked about it in the nursery they said they didn´t know what it was or why it was there (I bought yesterday a japonicus cryptomeria because it resembled the look of it).
This species (at least where I live) has had no pests or bugs. If you cut anywhere in the tree, it will back bud and grow. Also the cutting will root without problem (I have 22 rooted cuttings from this).
I you try to bend any gauge of branch, you'll see it can be done without any hassle. It has natural tapering and its foliage is very attractive. It turns reddish in fall (not in my climate though). The problems I can forsee are that it has only 2-3 inches heigth of annual growth and maybe it doesn´t behave as well as here in other climates.
The only refferences I have found about this species are :
1) An old entry in a bonsai page: https://browardbonsai.com/2011-trees-of-the-month
2) A youtube video from a colombian owner:
So, I must say this is an underated species, and if you ever find one it's worth a try.
Which species do you think are also underrated in the bonsai world?
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