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bald cypress bonsai in the ground?

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Posted by aspen0 z5 MI (My Page) on
Mon, Mar 19, 07 at 16:59

I saw some large bald cypress bonsai and I fell in love, I have to try it.

I just worry about hardiness. I know I'm at the upper end of bald cypress cold tolerance, and I know they grow in the ground here, but I don't know if they'd survive outdoors potted since that usually moves you up a zone.

For such a large bonsai I wouldn't have room indoors for it, and I don't have large enough windows to provide light, and I have cats which eat almost all my house plants.

So, it'd have to be outdoors.

Could I do it still if I planted it in the ground? How often do you really need to prune roots?

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RE: bald cypress bonsai in the ground?

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Well, your in the same boat as my mom. She is in Pennsylvania and I sent her 25 2' bald cyprus for christmas. The instructions that came from the nursery state that she needs to wait after the last frost to plant them. Once the roots take hold then the freezing will not harm them next winter. Its the realy small, under a foot, that can not handle the winter.
From what I have read online, it supports this too.
Ill be able to answer this much better in about a year when we get to see if the trees made it past the winter.

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