Post em' Up! Non-Coniferous Yamadori in the Americas

[Anthony]

Hmm what is a collected tree?

Is it extreme age - say 100 to 300 + of age?

Is it just a collected tree, say from a hedge?

Was it a tree / shrub, collected and being untouched by human hands, left untouched to grow in a pot ?
Admired because it survived a harsh life?

Definition ---------------------- anyone ?
Good Day
Anthony

* Stacy on our side, on the windward zones, seagrape will completely defoliate if they need to in the Dry season for about a month.
Our Dry Season follows your winter's cold.

 

[Vance Wood]

We can go round and round about what a Yamadori is when actually the word it slef means from the mountains. If I am wrong please correct me. You can call a tree a collected tree if rescued from a hedge or landscape somewhere but true Yamadori, in my understanding, are trees whose existence is from the process of nature being nature outside the influence of man.

 

[Anthony]

http://www.nibonsai.co.uk/bonsai-knowledge/yamadori/

http://www.ausbonsai.com.au/wiki/index.php?title=Yamadori

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penjing
Earliest Versions [ section to read ] - These naturally dwarfed plants were held to be endowed with special concentrated energies due to age and origin away from human influence

Good Day
Anthony

 

[Vin]

We can go round and round about what a Yamadori is when actually the word it slef means from the mountains. If I am wrong please correct me. You can call a tree a collected tree if rescued from a hedge or landscape somewhere but true Yamadori, in my understanding, are trees whose existence is from the process of nature being nature outside the influence of man.

I would agree with that. I always try to differentiate the two when I speak of them.

 

[BrianBay9]

I just call all of them "collected trees"

 

[Dan W.]

Does anyone know what happened to the "Edit" button on our posts? My photo's are messed up on an earlier post and I can't find a way to edit...

Here are the pictures that were lost. Aspen:

Thanks for sharing!
Very cool material. I would love to see a closer image of the Aspen! And the damage done by beavers

Thanks. Here are closer shots of the beaver damage:

 

[Dan W.]

Here's another aspen that I had for a couple of years, and was just beginning to get the design in place. I unfortunately lost this one this year. But do I think the species has potential.

 

[coh]

Does anyone know what happened to the "Edit" button on our posts? My photo's are messed up on an earlier post and I can't find a way to edit...

Once posts reach a certain age, they can no longer be edited. I'm not sure exactly when that point is.

The aspens look interesting. I'm going to try experimenting with a few, we've got them coming up all over the place around here. Will be digging a couple of small ones in the spring.

 

[mcpesq817]

Here's a few of my Yamadori. Winged elm, Pin oak, Bald cypress, and an American elm.

Nice trees, really love the winged elm!

 

[jk_lewis]

as to what is or is not true Yamadori?

Or a false one, for that matter.

 

[sorce]

beaver damage

You can only edit for I think an hour now....

Thanks for posting that aspen again!
Looking good!

And......nice beaver damage!

Sorce

 

[Tentakelaertje]

Well send me a beaver and we'll rule the deadwood bonsai world.

Nice stuff!

 

[thumblessprimate1]

I'd like to wait for spring, but can ligustrum be collected safely this time of year?

 

[aml1014]

I'd like to wait for spring, but can ligustrum be collected safely this time of year?

Probably with extremely good aftercare but it would probably be easier on you and the plant to wait till spring

 

[ghues]

Great thread and hey Dan W......I agree that Aspen could/can make a nice tree, I've had one in a pot for a number of years and was thinking that I should dig some more (there's a grove of them right outside the back yard) and make a forest.
This year the one I have, showed that maybe its time to re-pot it, as it has sent out/up a sucker/shoot which grew to about 10 inches........maybe I don't need to dig anymore and just let this one do what they do naturally to create a forest. One slight issue with the one I've got is that some branches die back seemingly without reason? Cheers G.

 

[crust]

Here's the aspen this fall after leaves fell. I placed a few wires mid summer to direct the few branches that were there.

I should take a better picture of my crunched aspen.

 

[sorce]

ligustrum

Check out this thing Alain did!
I have faith in it.

http://bonsainut.com/index.php?posts/253301/

Sorce

 

[Mellow Mullet]

I posted this in another thread, it was a trash pile rescue so I don't know if you could really call it a yamadori, but it is a non-conifer.

John

 

[Nomiyama]

Nice trees, really love the winged elm!

Thanks a lot I appreciate it. I was lucky enough to buy it a couple of years ago. To be honest I had my eyes on it for 2 or 3 years prior, and he finally sold it to me. It's a monster, from what I remember it was collected in Oklahoma.

 

[jk_lewis]

I'd like to wait for spring, but can ligustrum be collected safely this time of year?

Assuming you are speaking of L. sinensis, yes. Especially in the Dallas area.