M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
I know that when someone digs a stump they like to think they have a yamadori.
To me a yamadori is a tree collected from the wild,growing in harsh conditions,stunted by nature. Be it wind,snow and ice,wind or beat up by an Ibex.
It will mainly be found on a mountainside or in my area a swamp.
Not in your yard. Not in a neighbor's yard.
I've collected a lot of trees but I only consider a spruce I dug up 3 years ago as yamadori.
It didn't need cut down and regrow. It only needed to recover from collection and styled.
I call everything I've ever dug up collected stumps.
I also say surface roots not nebari. I'm not Japanese.
About the only Japanese word I use in bonsai is bonsai.
Mallsai? Potentsai ? Yardadori? Bastardization of Japanese.
Jin ? Dead stub.
Shari? Peeled or wounded bark.
I know some embrace the whole Japanese thing but let's use the words correctly.
A yamadori isn't something you can reach with a power cord from your house.
Yamadori spruce.
Collected stump.
To me a yamadori is a tree collected from the wild,growing in harsh conditions,stunted by nature. Be it wind,snow and ice,wind or beat up by an Ibex.
It will mainly be found on a mountainside or in my area a swamp.
Not in your yard. Not in a neighbor's yard.
I've collected a lot of trees but I only consider a spruce I dug up 3 years ago as yamadori.
It didn't need cut down and regrow. It only needed to recover from collection and styled.
I call everything I've ever dug up collected stumps.
I also say surface roots not nebari. I'm not Japanese.
About the only Japanese word I use in bonsai is bonsai.
Mallsai? Potentsai ? Yardadori? Bastardization of Japanese.
Jin ? Dead stub.
Shari? Peeled or wounded bark.
I know some embrace the whole Japanese thing but let's use the words correctly.
A yamadori isn't something you can reach with a power cord from your house.
Yamadori spruce.
Collected stump.