Creating Your Own Swamp Cypress Bonsai Grove: Step-by-Step Guide 

Incredible work. Quality of the video is also very high

I hope I get to see this in 10 years. It's going to be EPIC!

Oh, thank you! I just purchased 7 bald cypress rooted cuttings . Still deciding when, when and how ..this is very inspiring!!

Very clear display of forest composition loved it👍

Your explanations and break downs of how you do things and all the tips and tricks you share are out of this world. I cant thank you enough for your fantastic content.

Great presentation, thanks for sharing the video Terry.

Wow fantastic

Truly beautiful!! My one go at making a forest showed my what a great amount of patience and dexterity is required. I would love to see an update when the planting leafs out - I know it will be stunning!

great work. can't wait to see it in a year.🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲

Beatiful Swamp Cypress Bonsai Grouping Forest. I hope the bonsai grows well. I am from Indonesia, appretiate for your activity Sir. Good Job Sir. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="592">9:52</a>

It already looks quite lovely. Great work and thank you for sharing Terry.

Excellent new project and video! Thank you Terry 🙏

Beautiful Bonsai 😍 Like it ❤️ My friend, thank you for good sharing 😊 Have a good day

There be no Naa Sayers with bonsai. Take a tree and style it like nobody else does including nature and to me you have something special

Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) typically do not die back to points. They rot from the center outwards. This creates a dead hollow of wood at the top. Take a paper cup and tear off a section of wall, that's a more typical deadwood form. Good looking forest. Keep up the good work.

love it!

Awesome work!!

I will say I have about 25 bald cypress on my property. During deer season I am in the swamp more time than out of the swamp. I have never seen a natural bald cypress with downward sweeping branches. That said, they are beautiful in that style.

very nice and educational video again Terry...Thanks

Nice video and explanation as always! ❤Terry

Very nice planting.

Terry, Thank you for your contribution. Forrest planting is a skill quite different from growing individual trees. You did not talk much about the advantage of starting with fairly mature trees ideally developed for the purpose of a group composition. Starting with young trees may seem tempting buy I think your approach is better. It's not wrong to wire branches in a manner that's different then what the inherent nature of the tree is. That said it's generally better to stay true to the natural growth pattern of the tree when styling. Doing so allows the tree to continue to grow consistent with the styling design. Adding tight turns to the trunk of straight growing trees will eventually become a curvy trunk with straight branches unless the tree is constantly wired against its natural instinct. There has been a lot of discussion of lowering branches on bald cypress. Some of this comes from a story of a Japanese judge at an American bonsai show who downgraded a bald cypress because the branches were not wired down when the judge was in fact not familiar with what these trees look like in nature. The art of bonsai is without question a balancing act between the manipulation and natural development of the tree. Both are integral and each artist has the right to interpret the correct balance of how trees should or should not be best manipulated. Some bonsai artists believe in a more naturalistic style while others try to create trees that would in reality never being seen in nature. Both schools have their merit and perhaps the greatest trees of all are those that find the magical balance between the two. Happy growing to you, Mats H

Thanks!

Looks like Rambo's booby traps from the First Blood movie haha. I like the placement of the trees, it will look great once it fills out👍

Thanks

Would love to see what this looks like now. Also, I want to do a project like this but needing advice on whether to go to our cypress swamp and hand select some saplings or to buy some that are already a year or so old.

¡Gracias!

Hi Terry

I have a lot of questions so I would really love to bounce some ideas and get some advice from you.

Beautiful. How long did you keep the branches wired? Thanks.

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My question is about height. Will these 7 saplings get taller, given the tops are now deadwood?

Bueno pues ya Tenemos estacas para el conde Drácula 😂

How does this tree responds to bare rooting?

Sir the carving on the apex of the trees will remain like this or they need to be treated with something?

I've never heard anyone call it swamp cypress. I had to look it up to confirm you were talking about bald cypress. Is that a South African dialect difference from U.S. English?

Curious how old are those cypress trees? Im trying to get the same effect with mine but mine are very adolescent right now.

Where did u get those cypress did u grow them your self

You are a beast; but you have very very small ears

shame to reference that with Naka... all trees looks same, like pencils... deadwood work at it worst,,,,