It’s a popular bonsai plant especially suitable for those new to bonsai.

Why would bonsai lovers love a Bald Cypress?

While it grows slowly, its easy to maintain. Its leaves turn out light and feathery in autumn tones of orange-brown. It can also be cultivated in a wide variety of soils and climates.

How should someone care for a Bald Cypress?

Keep it in wet soil, outside if possible. It thrives best in full sun. In the spring, you’ll want to fertilize weekly with balanced fertilizer (10-10-10), decreasing to every two weeks by late summer through fall. No fertilizer is needed in the winter dormant season.

Bald Cypress
(taxodium distichum)

* The Bald Cypress grows in many areas of Louisiana and Florida particularly in swampy areas.

* The Bald Cypress has been designated the official tree of the state of Louisiana.

* The bark is fibrous and has a reddish-brown color with small flat ridges and shallow furrows.

* The leaves of the Bald Cypress tree are deciduous and spread in flat planes in a feathery pattern on its branchlets.

* Good for indoors.

* Ours is grown from seed.

* 49 years old.

* 54″ tall, 48″ wide.

* Trunk base diameter 11″, nebari 13″.

* Potted in a 36″ brown oval mica container as shown.

* Crated and trucked