Collecting Advice Needed

[rockm]

Tallow and Hackberry are not the same. Hackberry makes good lumber, the Chinese Devil Weed is of no good use for anything. Kill it and then kill it again. And then burn it and bury the ashes deep underwater. And then repeat next year.

Nope, no even remotely the same. Hackberry is a native species Chinese tallow is not. Hackberry, particularly southern hackberry (Aka sugarberry) can make excellent bonsai and can be collected pretty easily--even larger trunks...

 

[Huggz13]

Of all the species you've listed, the one with the most promise is Yaupon Holly. It can be easily collected in large sizes and makes spectacular bonsai. It's long been used as bonsai material and there are some pretty excellent bonsai-ed yaupons out there. Red maple isn't great unless you have the "swamp version" of it Acer Rubrum 'drummonidii' which has tighter growth and shorter internodes than the main species.

Developing Yaupon holly bonsai - a tale of when not to cut - Bonsai Tonight

Yaupon holly has been on my mind this week. I'm doing a demonstration on one tonight at a club meeting of the American Bonsai Association, Sacramento, and

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Some Refinement Tips on a Yaupon Holly Yamadori

This is that update I had promised in the last post on this big Yamadori yaupon Here’s a much better pic of it The original post was here. And this is how we left it, all alone on the bench D…

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Thanks for the links.
Good stuff!

 

[crab apple]

If your going to try a Yaupon Holly some of them have bright red little berries that look really cool. You have to find the plant around Nov, Dec, feb to identify which ones have the berries. I believe your suppose to dig them in spring but the berries could be gone by then so you have to know in advance which ones you want to dig and if they have berries or not. I prefer the ones w/berries, they look really well around Christmas.