How 'Old' Were You When?

[JoeR]

Actually I was talking about easier to take care of for me. Mostly easier to water.

Then again conifers are easy to take care of sun wise. Full sun, thats it. With maples sometimes its too much and they get burned.

With my white pine, it gets so dry compared to my tridents and stuff I panick and think I killed it because it got so dry. Butthen I realise its a WP and likes it.

 

[Anthony]

Stopped collecting, when we discovered how to grow in the troughs around the house.
Now a seedling with a wiggly shape is enough.
Oldest Tamarind was a collected, three compound leaves seedling, that was about 30 years ago.
Having so much enjoyment from Chlorophora t. since it was realised that it grows easily from a cutting.
Good Day
Anthony

 

[ABCarve]

I started collecting my 2nd year in. I live on 13 acres and most of it is wooded. They neighbors have woods as well. I don't have to hike, just take a wheel barrow with me. The choices are hemlock, Amer. & hop hornbeam, Amer. beech, hawthorn, red maple, witchhazel, deciduous holly and next year I'm gonna try to do a black cherry (weeds). The trees you choose don't have to be huge and all twisty. The younger the tree the more forgiving. I look for a nice nebari first. I'm not convinced you need to go high up to find good stuff, you just need have an imagination of what the tree can become and sometimes that means putting it back in the ground.

 

[JoeR]

I started collecting my 2nd year in. I live on 13 acres and most of it is wooded. They neighbors have woods as well. I don't have to hike, just take a wheel barrow with me. The choices are hemlock, Amer. & hop hornbeam, Amer. beech, hawthorn, red maple, witchhazel, deciduous holly and next year I'm gonna try to do a black cherry (weeds). The trees you choose don't have to be huge and all twisty. The younger the tree the more forgiving. I look for a nice nebari first. I'm not convinced you need to go high up to find good stuff, you just need have an imagination of what the tree can become and sometimes that means putting it back in the ground.

Isnt the purpose of collecting that you have something you dont need to put in the ground? It is for me at least.

You have quite the variety, huh?

 

[ABCarve]

Isnt the purpose of collecting that you have something you dont need to put in the ground? It is for me at least.

For the most part, yes. But I've put trees back in to develop them faster in good soil and light. I guess my point was, there a lot of good stuff right in your own back yard or woods. More diversity than you may think, growing in a native environment, and maybe some species that you may not see very often as bonsai.

 

[JoeR]

For the most part, yes. But I've put trees back in to develop them faster in good soil and light. I guess my point was, there a lot of good stuff right in your own back yard or woods. More diversity than you may think, growing in a native environment, and maybe some species that you may not see very often as bonsai.

Well I know that theres sweetgum, dogwood, persimmon, hornbeam, hawthorn (conveniently only on my neighbors land), sparkleberry (if I ever figure out how to dig them!), blueberry, a few virginia Pine, and I think thats it. Although Im sure theres more closer to the creek bank.

 

[Dav4]

Put it this way, my son was a Yankees fan for a long time, until he accumulated a deeper understanding of baseball over time...

Ouch!! Glad I'm a Red Sox fan...even this year.

 

[Lee Brindley]

I started off with the usual "mallsai" and had a few as a child. In my late teens I built up a collection of cheap trees from garden centres and I also collected some local saplings. After a few years I realised that my sticks in pots were never going to amount to much and I lost interest.

I was in my late 20s when a friend offered to take me yamadori collecting and this is the first tree I collected...

I have been bitten by the bug now and love to collect my own yamadori material. I am very fortunate to have some great landowners/farmers who allow me to collect material. Here is the same tree today (still a long way to go!)...

 

[ABCarve]

Well I know that theres sweetgum, dogwood, persimmon, hornbeam, hawthorn (conveniently only on my neighbors land), sparkleberry (if I ever figure out how to dig them!), blueberry, a few virginia Pine, and I think thats it. Although Im sure theres more closer to the creek bank.

I've killed very few trees by digging them out. My dead trees came from trying to do too much, too fast.