Underhill field grown stock

[RaginCajun]

Evan Pardue at Underhill Bonsai in Folsom, Louisiana posted this short. I read a recent post about the current market and price for material versus the quality. I can personally vouch for this nursery. Everything is cutting or seed grown.. or air layered.. their field stock gets dug up every year or every other yr and they work the roots.. they’re all grown on tiles or something to grow good roots. They have a great selection as well. Here’s a link of a recent video they posted. I’m not affiliated with them in any way other than being a customer. Just thought I’d share a gem of a nursery with yall. Their website has some of their stock but email Gavin or call him.. they are very personable.
Happy Good Friday!

 

[BobbyLane]

Thats a lot of field grown stock! I may pop in at some point, depending on traffic

 

[RaginCajun]

Thats a lot of field grown stock! I may pop in at some point, depending on traffic

They’ve got several greenhouses now. And rows and rows of benches full of all kinds of stuff.

 

[baldone]

Why don't they put these for sale on website for those who live too far away to drive?

 

[Cadillactaste]

Why don't they put these for sale on website for those who live too far away to drive?

He said they will be on his website... maybe he's just not had time to post them.

 

[RaginCajun]

Why don't they put these for sale on website for those who live too far away to drive?

They have too many of each individual species to list every single tree. I do agree their website is sparse but if you’re looking for something in particular if you email or call Gavin they will send you photos of different trees for you to choose from.

 

[leatherback]

Evan Pardue at Underhill Bonsai in Folsom, Louisiana posted this short. I read a recent post about the current market and price for material versus the quality. I can personally vouch for this nursery. Everything is cutting or seed grown.. or air layered.. their field stock gets dug up every year or every other yr and they work the roots.. they’re all grown on tiles or something to grow good roots. They have a great selection as well. Here’s a link of a recent video they posted. I’m not affiliated with them in any way other than being a customer. Just thought I’d share a gem of a nursery with yall. Their website has some of their stock but email Gavin or call him.. they are very personable.
Happy Good Friday!

cool stuff.

I find it funny when I post videos of nurseries I go to, I get loads of people saying "We do not have this in our country". Often from people in the USA. I see this video and I was thinking.. Wow, I would love to know a nursery like this . Every place has a few gems for raw material.

I was surprized at the carving done around the big elm chops; Somehow I always feel that cuts need to be depressed, rather than concave. Any thoughts, anyone?

 

[Shibui]

I was surprized at the carving done around the big elm chops; Somehow I always feel that cuts need to be depressed, rather than concave. Any thoughts, anyone?

That was my initial rection too.
I suspect this is to improve the look for immediate sale rather than longer term progress.

 

[Potawatomi13]

cool stuff.

I find it funny when I post videos of nurseries I go to, I get loads of people saying "We do not have this in our country". Often from people in the USA. I see this video and I was thinking.. Wow, I would love to know a nursery like this . Every place has a few gems for raw material.

I was surprized at the carving done around the big elm chops; Somehow I always feel that cuts need to be depressed, rather than concave. Any thoughts, anyone?

Depressed and concave are the same thing

 

[Shibui]

Depressed and concave are the same thing

Not sure about that. I've been depressed sometimes but cannot remember being concave

 

[leatherback]

ah

Depressed and concave are the same thing

well, convex then. Life gets complex trying to operate in 3 languages in parallel.

 

[BobbyLane]

cool stuff.

I find it funny when I post videos of nurseries I go to, I get loads of people saying "We do not have this in our country". Often from people in the USA. I see this video and I was thinking.. Wow, I would love to know a nursery like this . Every place has a few gems for raw material.

I was surprized at the carving done around the big elm chops; Somehow I always feel that cuts need to be depressed, rather than concave. Any thoughts, anyone?

Yep, I was once that guy, jealous of all the raw nursery stock folks were getting in the North of England. It was only when I started to do some proper research, I realised I had access to these kinds of places too.

A few tree nurseries here are adding a bit more variety now, ive recently seen Parrotia, Seiju elm, Lagerstroemia with decent trunks.

 

[BobbyLane]

They’ve got several greenhouses now. And rows and rows of benches full of all kinds of stuff.

I couldn't make it down yesterday, the bloody bridge was out again

 

[RaginCajun]

cool stuff.

I find it funny when I post videos of nurseries I go to, I get loads of people saying "We do not have this in our country". Often from people in the USA. I see this video and I was thinking.. Wow, I would love to know a nursery like this . Every place has a few gems for raw material.

I was surprized at the carving done around the big elm chops; Somehow I always feel that cuts need to be depressed, rather than concave. Any thoughts, anyone?

Evan says that with some species, in his vast experiences working with these particular species, the callus growth is so aggressive around the big chops that it actually creates a bulge that requires more carving and he believes that you get a better taper much faster by creating a sharper angled chop. he carves a shallow trough or ditch around the edge of the chop so the callus rolls into the trough or ditch rather than bulge out before beginning to roll over the wound. I have followed this technique as well with the species he lists for this technique and it does help with the bulging and they heal so fast the chops are sealed in 2yrs. Bald cypress, most all elm species and trident maples.

 

[RaginCajun]

Here’s a couple imperial size bald cypress at Underhill, I took these photos at “C’est Bonsai” show at Underhill the last weekend of March. They just posted a video of the trees in the show, I highly recommend you check it out.
You can see in the photos I posted how the sharp angled, convex cuts make much better taper and with bald cypress those big chops heal over very fast.

 

[RaginCajun]

ah

well, convex then. Life gets complex trying to operate in 3 languages in parallel.

I don’t have to operate full time speaking multiple languages but I understand the struggle as I do speak 4 and 1/4 languages. The brain kicks out knowledge constantly to store more useful knowledge .. or rather knowledge we utilize most often. Thanks for joining in and thanks for the time you put into your channel, I enjoy watching it here in West Monroe, Louisiana.

 

[RaginCajun]

@leatherback @Shibui
Here’s the link to a video Evan posted recently explaining why he carves the wounds convex and demonstrates it.

 

[BobbyLane]

@leatherback @Shibui
Here’s the link to a video Evan posted recently explaining why he carves the wounds convex and demonstrates it.

Are those water elms in the background? If its one species you guys seems to have in abundance out there its Bald cypress