Blue Atlantic Cedar Bonsai Maintenance and Shaping

This beautiful Blue Atlantic (Atlas) Cedar, Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca' is in need of a clean up and to be made beautiful again. This is an annual job for all cedars at Bonsai Matsu and it is essential. Plucking, pruning, wiring, guy wires and styling are all part of the work. Care needs to be taken with rough handling any cedar as the small branches and buds can be quite delicate. Enjoy this video of the annual maintenance I undertake for cedars and see the transformation.

[@oussamachaachoui3727]

Beautiful tree
Thank you for explaining 🙏
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[@razor2ts]

One of my favourite trees to use for bonsai! Great demo, thank you from the UK :-)

[@erickonigsdorfer544]

Love that tree!!

[@trenseni]

Very nice ....Blue Atlantic Cedar bonsai...👍

[@user-cw2pk8zq8p]

Beautiful tree.I’m no expert but you have to be the best bonsai artist in Australia.Can’t wait for your demo’s at the Central Coast bonsai show.

[@BonsaiMatsu]

Thank you!! I’m really excited for the Bonsai Open too and make sure you say hello when you’re there too.

[@raymondplodzien7459]

Looks amazing!

[@grahamleonard8060]

Beautiful !

[@gregorynewey4089]

Hi beautiful tree. It would be great to see a close up of the needles you are plucking away, especially for those who don’t have much experience with Cedar trees? Is it a similar process that’s used on Black Pines? Cheers.

[@BonsaiMatsu]

Needle reduction work is done on black pines as well.

[@Juan_bonsai_Avila]

Suscrito y like, gracias por compartir 👍

[@sanitychelle]

Gorgeous! Also realised I've had a photo of this tree on my phone since 2020! Small aside, we need to get you a lapel mic for these.

[@BonsaiMatsu]

It’s coming 😉

[@noloenglish]

Any tips for repotting an atlas cedar from a grow pot to a bonsai pot? I’ve heard the timing is very crucial and cedars don’t like too much root work! Thanks for always being inspiring in your content videos and podcast!

[@BonsaiMatsu]

Thanks very much! Very kind of you. I’d do it gradually and make sure the tree is really healthy. It may need to be reduced over a few repots to get it small enough for the perfect pot but there’s no rush. So around one third this repot then in a year or two reduce again by about a third. It will depend on the actual rootball size in the pot too, not the pot size.

[@noloenglish]

Thanks for the advice! I’m going to go slow and steady with it!

[@perpetual1358]

Este árbol es un espectáculo, lástima que aquí en el sur de España sea casi imposible mantenerlo con vida

[@RobyCantafio]

In what month is needle cleaning done?

[@BonsaiMatsu]

Where abouts are you? This was filmed in Melbourne, Australia

[@RobyCantafio]

Milan Italy