Spent my birthday at the arboretum and exhibit in DC with the wife. So many beautiful trees, thought I'd see more larch, but this mega beast was insanely humbling. In training for ~400 years. #goals
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So that's the tree that survived the bomb. Crazy how much history that tree has seen.
Amazing, thanks for sharing!!This is an amazing Japanese white pine.
The picture doesn't do it justice. It is HUGE for a bonsai.
This tree survived Hiroshima because it was protected by a wall and was a gift from Japan to the United States for its 200th birthday.
Centuries-old bonsai that survived atomic bomb gets honored 70 years later
At 390 years old, the Japanese white pine was already notable as the oldest specimen in the bonsai collection at Washington, D.C.'s National Arboretum.
Repotting the World-Famous Yamaki Pine — National Bonsai Foundation
National Bonsai & Penjing Museum and U.S. National Arboretum staff have repotted the Yamaki pine , one of the world’s most eminent and symbolically powerful bonsai. Almost 400 years old, the Japanese white pine has survived generations of travel and travesty, most famously the 1945 bombi
That video is *so* interesting.
Not really. It's likely akadama or some other volcanic sourced soil. Very different than "regular dirt" More porous, lighter, more durable and inorganic...That video is *so* interesting.
I'm particularly drawn into the soil they are using (around 9:05), it looks suspiciously like regular dirt to me, or at least very small and powdery akadama. Surely matter for a new sustrate war, methinks >
I love that video. I wonder what joke the guy tells at 11:57.
