The 2025 Yamadori/Collecting Thread

[The Barber]

Bought a 10x20ft tent style carport for the frame, then hung shade cloth to protect my yamadori, then did my weekly fertilizer yesterday. Summer is coming up fast. Gonna build benches in there next.

 

[Cajunrider]

Uhm, semi-natural ebihara sweetgum. By semi-natural I mean it occurred on its own in the relative wild of abandoned truck stop being flattened for redevelopment. The rest is completely unnatural...
This tree grew over the carpet remnant and had no taproot whatsoever.
It's all do or die. The area is being bulldozed, I am glad I stopped on a holiday.
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Wore gloves while I was chipping away at the yucky carpet and it grew in the area rife with poison ivy too.
There is quite a bit of fine roots. Hope it makes it.
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And the yuck
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Good find!

 

[The Barber]

Did some light wiring while the branches are still young on a few of my collected hornbeams this evening.