A week of great new trees

Josh88

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IMG_0397.JPG IMG_0397.JPG IMG_0398.JPG IMG_0399.JPG IMG_0400.JPG First up is a Rocky Mtn. Juniper that I received yesterday. I went to get some copper wire from a friend and gave him a hand moving his large trees out of the greenhouse. As a thank you he gave me this beauty, collected by one of the northwest's most respected yamadori collectors. What an awesome thank you! Safe to say that I'm the grateful one now.
 
IMG_0377.JPG Next up is an azalea collected at the hospital I work at. I have talked with our groundskeeper about possibly collecting landscape material when the hospital is going to get rid of it. He gave me a heads up on Friday that they are going to clear a small section this weekend, and that I should dig anything I want before it disappears. I found this awesome trunk all ready to go. My first lunch break hospital yamadori! Pic is from the back of my car in the parking garage since we were having a rain and wind storm when I got it.
 
I just found out what I thought was "shimpaku" was entirely wrong...
I thought the technique of attaching a tree to a large piece of deadwood, was shimpaku... but that's something else (name escapes me, tituku or something like that).
Every shimpaku I see looks like it is a large piece of deadwood with some alive tree on it, so I just started thinking that lol... well that's embarrassing.

Lovely looking trees. The Rocky Mountain is my fav. Wish we had stuff like that where I'm from.
 
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