Help with finding pond cypress (Taxodium ascendens)

31-Jul-2005	#1
jfecme bonsaiTALK Master Join Date: Mar-2005 Location: Georgia Country: USA USDA Zone: 7A AHS Heat Zone: 8 Posts: 326	Help with finding pond cypress (Taxodium ascendens) If anyone knows where i can find one, raw material, shippable, please let me know.

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31-Jul-2005	#2
rockm bonsaiTALK ArchMaster Join Date: Oct-2003 Location: Fairfax, Va Country: USA USDA Zone: 7 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 4,561	Might be helpful if we knew where you live, in the U.S., what part? IF you llive in the S.Eastern U.S., you might do better with going to a nursery and buying a bald cypress landscape tree (a smaller one, with about a 2 inch diameter trunk. If you live in the Northern U.S. you might do better going with a bald cypress. Pond cypress isn't as fast growing or as hardy in those parts, in my experience. Raw stock prepared for bonsai use can be pretty expensive. Miamitropicalbonsai.com, bonsainorthshore.com have some nice BC stock, but it ain't cheap. Both ship.

31-Jul-2005	#3
BrianBay9 Trunk Collector Join Date: Sep-2003 Location: Loveland, CO Country: USA USDA Zone: 4 or 5? AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 1,362	Daytonabonsai (member here) has or had pond cypress, and he ships... Brian __________________ There's a difference between taking your art seriously, and taking yourself too seriously.

31-Jul-2005

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Originally Posted by rockm

Might be helpful if we knew where you live, in the U.S., what part?

IF you llive in the S.Eastern U.S., you might do better with going to a nursery and buying a bald cypress landscape tree (a smaller one, with about a 2 inch diameter trunk.

If you live in the Northern U.S. you might do better going with a bald cypress. Pond cypress isn't as fast growing or as hardy in those parts, in my experience.

Raw stock prepared for bonsai use can be pretty expensive. Miamitropicalbonsai.com, bonsainorthshore.com have some nice BC stock, but it ain't cheap. Both ship.

Thanks. Actually, both do well here in the southeast. I'm in hot and wet middle Georgia. I often see stands along the highway, but even if I got permission to go after one I don't think I could do it safely because I'm not swamp (pond) prepared. I have tried several nurseries in this area without success, because folks generally want the faster growing bald cypress (taxodium distichum) for landscaping. I already have a couple of those as specimens, and a small forest planting.

I will inquire of Daytonabonsai. Appreciate the help!

31-Jul-2005	#5
rockm bonsaiTALK ArchMaster Join Date: Oct-2003 Location: Fairfax, Va Country: USA USDA Zone: 7 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 4,561	If you're after pondies, Miamibonsai has a pretty extensive listing, under specimen "Bald Cypress." Almost all of those look to me to be pond cypress, juding from the leaves...

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