Deciduous Conifers at RAKUYO Bonsai
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- In this video Andrew shares some of the deciduous conifers at RAKUYO bonsai and discusses his plans for their development. Check out our new bald cypress bonsai, as well as a couple dawn redwoods showing a diversity of form. We're on the hunt to add more deciduous conifers to the garden to help provide more high-level education on the deciduous conifer group. We also introduce Birch, the newest member of the RAKUYO family!
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Incredible Mr., incredible!
Thanks
Lovely trees Andrew. I love my deciduous conifers and have 2 group plantings planned for this spring. Nothing so big as your trees, but the scale is perfect for my needs. I would be honored if you watched along.
I'll check it out, good luck with your group plantings!
Beautiful specimens Andrew. I agree with your styling philosophy for your bald cypress. Looking forward to watching you repot and develop it into the future. Thanks, keep growing
Thanks, will definitely share updates along the way!
Thanks for the video-- keep making them! I love seeing your nursery.
Thanks, planning on making more in that style
I totally love your RUclips channel Andrew. It’s so informative. Love the new puppy. to Birch.
Thanks for tuning in! Glad you’re enjoying it!
I love dawn redwoods, they are so tough and vigorous. The Chinese elm of conifers.
Very vigorous!
Bold statement about the bald cypress! But i agree. I have one in the coniferous style and prefer it... unless you go all out and denude almost all of the trunk apart from a couple of branches and then the flat top. That can be stunning.
Me too, would be nice to see more bald cypress in the style of which 99% of them grow
Great inspiration to be more constant and dream about the future of our trees. Thank you Andrew! 🎉
My pleasure!
A pleasure to watch your videos Andrew! Thank you for posting!
I think I recognize Lee’s Dawn Redwood from Mirai Elongating Species course back in 2017. Great to see the progress!
Also, thank you for showing me around Mikael Hagedorns garden back in 2017!
Great to see your own garden, trees and content!
Greetings from Sweden!
You're probably right, that dawn redwood has been around for a while. Cheers!
Thank you Andrew I could watch you talk about your beautiful trees all day 😊
Birch is adorable ❤
Thanks, he’s a handsome pup!
beautiful deciduous trees and I agree with natural style for deciduous trees 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
I’m excited to see what you come up with on the bald cypress, I am not a fan of the flat top ones so looking forward to seeing it develop.
It would be nice to see more that look like most of them do!
I love Dawn Redwood and they can produce such an inspiring silhouette. Love the new addition too :)
I wish we saw more dawn redwood in bonsai, they develop so quickly!
I agree totally - I have so much fun with mine. Despite the impending cold snap due in a week they are already starting to swell :)@@rakuyobonsai
Nice, however I live in Florida and have seen some super old bald cypress swamps. Trust me they definitely tend to grow in the flat top form when really old. I like the flat top form but it will be cool to see other forms such as the more traditional conifer form you mentioned.
I spent 5 years living in Florida and know they can make a flat top form in nature, but in my experience it’s less than 1% of the cypress that I’ve encountered. I definitely respect that style but prefer the form of the 99%
@@rakuyobonsai Idk why I'm so triggered by your statement lol. First off, you said "in the Carolinas" not Florida. FL also has a lot of pond cypress which has a different growing habit than BC despite ppl waning to call them the same thing. BC definitely naturally grow into flat tops in SC. Having a preference of one over the other is fine, but making a blanket statement calling a natural form unnatural is misleading and incorrect. It's okay to have both. I have both. The conical form looks like any other conifer for the most part IMO. The flat top is what makes bald cypress unique.
That said, I look forward to seeing you create a conical form with natural taper and no gigantic wound on the back side of the tree. Most people that make conical forms with large trunks tend to desperately make sure that you only look at the tree from one specific angle.
@@Bonsai_Bentley I agree, I think most of the older cypress I've seen tend to be flat tops as well. I am 29 and have livd in Florida my whole life and have seen many massive old cypress flat tops. This tends to be much more common when they grow in close proximity also, maybe if an older cypress is isolated from others and has more sun exposure on more of the trunk it may lean towards a more conical form. However 80% of conical forms are just younger trees still.
@@BeesBonsai a form I've been toying with is a tree that's transitioning to a flat top. Basically a flat top with lots of lower lateral branching.
@@Bonsai_Bentley I like that, a nice way to break up the monotony and add some visual interest. I have a nice old collected baldy from around where Mary Madison collected. It has a natural flat top already but I also like the Idea of fostering some of the lower branching and buds. However, I have to be careful they don't run wild and sap the upper canopy's energy. After all, I guess bonsai is a great deal about balance.
thanks mr anderw..love your channel ..much inspiring..
My pleasure!
my golden puppy loved to play "fetch" with my trees on the ground lol. so cute tho! nice collected tree too btw
They’re fun garden dogs!
Another great video. I’m always seeing these huge bald cypress’s on Instagram, would love one myself but you just don’t get them this big/grown much in the UK. You got such amazing pieces of material. 👌
Thanks, try hard to source some special trees from all over North America
Amazing trees!🌲👌🏻
Thanks, really excited to whip them into exhibit shape!
Some stunning trees to work on. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for following along!
The music is nice but i think it would be awesome if you recorded a little flute thing for the intro/outro. Great video!
Unfortunately my music days are behind me, but working with some musicians to get some better music for the channel
Andrew , really love your work! Dawn Redwood"s triangular form for sure, but having spent my entire life in the swamps of the Carolinas practically all really mature Bald Cypress are flat tops, Please dont make it look like a Dawn Redwood.
I’d love to make it look like a mature bald cypress
Amazing trees, but where are the larches?
Don't have any in the garden yet, hopefully one day!
Do you have any Dogwoods? I love the bark on the Cornus Florida.
Yes we just got a big dogwood in the garden
I see those knees on my Metasequoias all the time.
Would love to see more of them in bonsai bald cypress! They add a really nice feeling
No larch?
Not yet, I’m desperate for some good ones!
I love your trees, and content. My only observation (and it's not a criticism) is that it's not relatable to most hobbyists as the trees you feature are normally goliaths. If you have 30 to 60cm trees perhaps that are attainable for most, and did a bit of content on them too it may help to grow the channel along with the monster trees 😊
Thanks for the observation, you’re totally right. Even though we enjoy big trees we have plenty of smaller ones around, will make a note to feature some more!
@@rakuyobonsai Agreed, a Shohin and/or Chuhin video would be cool… not much information out there about Shohin bonsai so a video about the subject would be nice to see 😊 birch is adorable btw 😍
Bald cypress don't grow as flat tops in the south? Weird, I've seen hundreds of them when i lived in South Carolina. 🤔🤔😂
I didn't say they never grow like that, you definitely see hundreds of them but my point was more that you don't see millions of them
birch looks like trouble BET
He’s been a good puppy so far! 🤞🏼