Urban city ditch privet!

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IMG_0688.JPG I'm new to the bonsai lifestyle ,
And of course like a lot of people the first thing I want to try my hands on is a privet.
But I'm the type of person that doesn't want just any privet, I like to look for trees that are being abused by humanity .
I like to save them from almost certain death . But like every beginner I have killed a few trying to save them .
But anyway ,,I was driving my little girl to school A couple of months ago and noticed The highway department cutting Old privet bushes back away from A major highway .
I didn't think much of it but as I went to pick her up that evening I noticed all they did was Cut everything into stumps while leaving The trash that has accumulated There over the years just lying about .
Fast forward to the present day Everything is still how they left it . So sad!
I decided to get on the phone and get permission from the highway department to collect some of these privet stumps.
( and that was fun trying to explain to them what I wanted to do )
But they granted me access and away I went, ,, I had to dig through some trash but I found this little guy And decided to take him home.
It ended up having lots of feeder roots and in my mind has great potential .
I built a custom cedar training box for it and will keep y'all updated in the morning with pictures .
Would love to have some input to see this little guy survive .
 

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D805

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Very nice. New to bonsai as well. I can't count how many times I've driven down the road and wanted to pull over and dig up a tree. :) Good on you. Look forward to seeing the progress of this tree.
 

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Good collecting. Nice box.
You didn't leave that hubcap there did you? :)
CW
 

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Hey bro....

You wanna have a contest to see who could find the most fucked up thing in their Urban City Ditch?

Sorce
Working in Brockton Massachusetts a few years ago I found a sanitary pad that had absorbed so much water it looked like a jellyfish.
 

Bonsailane

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Hey bro....

You wanna have a contest to see who could find the most fucked up thing in their Urban City Ditch?

Sorce
Now we are talking about plants right ? Lol
If that's the case I would love any competition that involves saving plants from areas like that and turning them into bonsai .
 

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I think we're losing the meaning of this post .
I was wanting to inspire people to collect specimens in places where humanity is destroying The environment .
For example here is a winged Elm That I found growing along the side of a ravine in the country .
This spot is where a lot of people go fishing and shooting their guns so of course they continuously dump their trash there also .
No more than 15 feet away from where I found this elm there was a water heater and and tires That someone had dumped .....
This particular elm people were putting bottles on the Limbs and using it for target practice .....
So I decided to relieve them of their target .IMG_0649.JPG IMG_0653.JPG
 

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I was wanting to inspire people to collect specimens in places where humanity is destroying The environment
Come on out to one of our job sites.
Right now we're doing in oaks that must be at least 150 years old. Some are over 4 feet in diameter.
We don't call it destroying we call it clear cutting.
 

BrianBay9

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Props for going to the trouble of getting permission. Many wouldn't bother. Good for you.
 

sorce

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I think we're losing the meaning of this post

I think we are right on target and I'm with you!

I found a "not for insulin" needle in the juniper hedgerow at the strip mall the other week!

Hell...even True Yamadori, iffin that does mean...."from the mountain", is getting destroyed.

Seems The Man from Snowy River was wrong.
NOLA is dry.

Sorce
 
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