True cypress is the most suitable material for bonsai. It is green all the year round, with dense branches and small leaves. It is suitable for viewing all the year round.
In fact, true cypress does not need to be pruned repeatedly, and it is not resistant to pruning. To prune it, you can take off the top part of it, which can make the side branches grow better.
Spring in the new branches and leaves, to timely prune, not to allow the free growth of branches and leaves, damage its compact tree shape, pruning to cut.
1. When pruning the new shoots, try not to use scissors to cut them off. You can directly use your hands to cut them off, so as to prevent the cut with scissors from turning brown, which will greatly reduce the viewing degree.
2. If you want to prune large branches, you should choose to prune them when they are in dormancy.
In Taiwan and Japan, many plant modeling masters like to let their bonsai models have some dry branches on them. They call these dry branches "sacrificial stems", which is also a very popular practice in Taiwan and Japan. They are based on the nature of trees due to some reasons caused by local dry, broken and other phenomena to create a "sacrificial stem", with "sacrificial stem" bonsai has a unique ornamental effect.
Now let's enjoy some masterpieces of true cypress.
