The Yamadori Thread

MACH5 · Jun 20, 2016

Thumbless that is a nice hackberry with great potential! Very nice.

Dan and arcina really nice stuff guys!

Here is a sprawling, clump style Rocky Mountain juniper (Juniperus scopulorum) with very tight, almost kishu-like foliage. Collected in the spring of last year by Andy Smith. Probably will be styled in another year or two. At the moment adjusting to life in NJ!

arcina · Jun 21, 2016

Thank you MACH5.

Let's add 2 more. The styled one I really like and it is doing amazing. It was styled in November by Bjorn and I'll repot next year. I am thinking to add a rock to solve a problem at the base. I want the tree looking like it is sitting on top of the rock and the root is growing on one side of the rock.

The next one was collected this year and I was lucky to get all the rootball so the trees has been growing like nothing happened. I am thinking to add it to my website to include the 360 pictures of this tree. It has amazing bends and twists.

www.chobonsaiyamadori.com

arcina · Jun 22, 2016

The following 2 trees are quite large. One is a very big oneseed juniper. I think it is going to make it. It was collected this year and it is starting to show some signs of life. However, summers are very hot around here so it is always hard to know if it will survive the summer. The tree is around 5' tall and 20 inches wide.

The second is a douglas fir. It is doing great. That one is over 5'

Thanks

www.chobonsaiyamadori.com

chicago1980 · Jun 22, 2016

fourteener said:
This Thuja Occidentalis was collected by me in 2010 I believe. It was collected in northern MN. It was grown into a rock formation, but the rock was more sedimentary than much of the rock here in northern MN. One simple use of a pry bar revealed it's root systems in a small amount of duff. The only thing really holding the tree in place was the wedge of rock I pryed off.

The current picture is the slab that Ron Lang made for me.

There is a branch in the middle of the tree that was removed for the sake of opening up a design. This 1.5 inch branch was cut, sanded, oiled, photographed and there were 70 plus rings. This is a very old tree.

Most of my collection revolves around yamadori from Northern MN. I won't post all of them here, but you can check out my photo blog. I have some shohin versions of this tree that I gathered this fall.

Here's the existent thread http://bonsainut.com/forums/showthread.php?10448-White-Cedar-Yamadori

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Great trees! Nice to see some Yamadori from the midwest. I have been looking for a source in this area for the last couple years.

CWTurner · Jun 22, 2016

arcina said:
The following 2 trees are quite large.

Wow! Those are awesome.
You must live in pumice country with that big pile of stone you have.
CW

thumblessprimate1 · Jun 30, 2016

arcina said:
The following 2 trees are quite large. One is a very big oneseed juniper. I think it is going to make it. It was collected this year and it is starting to show some signs of life. However, summers are very hot around here so it is always hard to know if it will survive the summer. The tree is around 5' tall and 20 inches wide.

The second is a douglas fir. It is doing great. That one is over 5'

Thanks

www.chobonsaiyamadori.com

Love the Douglas Fir!
My Elm. Last one to bud out.

Craigm · Jul 1, 2016

Loving All the collected specimens Guy's!!
Great going on getting some Wicked good trees , it's very inspiring.

here is one from down under, pretty close to my first collected melaleuca.
p.s-i changed my user name from meljobu to Craigm, thanks

and keep em coming.

Moonster · Jul 1, 2016

Craigm said:
Loving All the collected specimens Guy's!!
Great going on getting some Wicked good trees , it's very inspiring.

here is one from down under, pretty close to my first collected melaleuca.
p.s-i changed my user name from meljobu to Craigm, thanks and keep em coming.

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thats an awesome trunk! and also an awesome mustache!

thumblessprimate1 · Jul 1, 2016

@Moonster ya need to include an image of a yamadori with your post.

Hackberry collected by me in Dallas. ☺
Previous Elm also collected by me on Dallas.

wireme · Jul 1, 2016

Craigm said:
Loving All the collected specimens Guy's!!
Great going on getting some Wicked good trees , it's very inspiring.

here is one from down under, pretty close to my first collected melaleuca.
p.s-i changed my user name from meljobu to Craigm, thanks and keep em coming.

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Congratulations man, that's super.

mattspinniken · Jul 1, 2016

Some awesome stuff here.

A White Cedar collected this spring

M. Frary · Jul 2, 2016

I don't normally call the trees I dig Yamadori. I like to call them nature aged. But some Scots pine I've been finding lately could fall into the yamadori moniker.

Aeast · Jul 2, 2016

Eastern hemlock (tusga canadensis), collected by me this spring. It has a long way to go but I think it has potential.

Dan W. · Jul 2, 2016

Great trees everyone! Thanks for keeping the thread going!

Here are a few of my pines on the bench this spring. (the ones I don't sell...

) Pomderosa, Limber and Lodgepole. Or, p. Ponderosa, Flexilis and Contorta var. latifolia.

I'll post some individual photo's later. Keep sharing your awesome trees!

Vance Wood · Jul 2, 2016

Mike: Nice tree. Have you ever taken a tally of how many trees you have harvested and placed in colanders and their survival rates compared to others planted otherwise?

Vance Wood · Jul 2, 2016

Dan W. said:
Great trees everyone! Thanks for keeping the thread going!

Here are a few of my pines on the bench this spring. (the ones I don't sell... ) Pomderosa, Limber and Lodgepole. Or, p. Ponderosa, Flexilis and Contorta var. latifolia.

I'll post some individual photo's later. Keep sharing your awesome trees!

How are you faring through all the fires and drought?

Arcto · Jul 2, 2016

Fun thread. I'll try to catch up although I'm not as prolific as a lot of the posters here. Collected this Mountain Hemlock in the North Oregon Cascades the end of May. My permit allowed collecting in the road prism only. A lot of this material was on the shoulders and had been cut down in the past. I refilled a half dozen partially dug trees finding a single main trunk root with a right angle bend going who knows where. This one had enough fine root growth to warrant extraction. I had to go to Portland for a few days after the dig. Parked it in a greenhouse Portland had an early heat wave of 102. The tree and I hightailed it back to the high country where it is doing fine.

Arcto · Jul 2, 2016

A large Mountain Hemlock collected in the Central Oregon Cascades, early May.

Arcto · Jul 2, 2016

Green leaf Manzanita collected from the Central Oregon Cascades, early May. From an abandoned logging road where it was abused by motor vehicles.

PiñonJ · Jul 2, 2016

Dan W. said:
Great trees everyone! Thanks for keeping the thread going!

Here are a few of my pines on the bench this spring. (the ones I don't sell... ) Pomderosa, Limber and Lodgepole. Or, p. Ponderosa, Flexilis and Contorta var. latifolia.

I'll post some individual photo's later. Keep sharing your awesome trees!

What are the cords going through the sides of the boxes? Are these in lieu of wire tie-downs?

Here's a one-seed juniper (Juniperus monosperma) that I collected on my land two years ago. Got it into a bonsai pot this spring. It's putting on excellent growth now, so I may do some minor pruning and branch bending during the summer monsoon (our rainy season), as well as starting to peel the large jins, then more styling and pruning next spring. It's 3.5 - 4" at the base (about 6' tall prior to pruning).

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