Show us your Urban Yamadori

[Dav4]

I tried to save 6 parsons junipers out of our hedgerow at work. Only one survived, it had the least amount of potential, but the most foliage and roots of all six so it was placed in a 5 gallon bucket. Age is unknown to me. I would think at least 10 yrs. Much of the trunk I buried and can be seen by the second broken trunk coming up out of the soil line.

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Nice. Looks like a good bunjin candidate.

 

[jason eider]

Hi Guys and gals, first time posting here. thought I'd jump in and show a rhodie I collected a few years back...

 

[Dav4]

Hi Guys and gals, first time posting here. thought I'd jump in and show a rhodie I collected a few years back...View attachment 44821

Wow...That rhodie definitely has some junk in the trunk. Nice!

 

[BonsaiRic]

Taxus, my favorite species!! Dug from a hedge.

 

[Vance Wood]

It will be perfect for those who are doing "urban yamadori" who haven't posted their trees yet. For me, it is not convenient or practical having posted several already (and multiple on some threads too). Sorry I just don't want to waste my time going through the notion where the end result is the same anyway.

Nice trees by the way.

And----some of us don't want to chase down all of the links to all of your trees posted all over this site. I guess if you have the time to post the links you should have the time to post the pictures. I can go to the bottom of this thread window and click on manage attachments that will open the upload manager. Within this feature I can find the image, good bad or otherwise and post it with little problem.

This took three minutes.

 

[Vance Wood]

And----some of us don't want to chase down all of the links to all of your trees posted all over this site. I guess if you have the time to post the links you should have the time to post the pictures. I can go to the bottom of this thread window and click on manage attachments that will open the upload manager. Within this feature I can find the image, good bad or otherwise and post it with little problem.View attachment 44827 View attachment 44828 View attachment 44829 View attachment 44830 View attachment 44831

This took three minutes.

This only took a couple of minutes to do. Unless your system works differently, or not at all, there is no reason you cannot do similar downloads. I hate to put this out there but when it comes to bonsai and you avoid things, it is really just lazy; laziness and bonsai are not good companions.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

A few urban Yamadori on my benches...

Hawthorn, collected in 2000 near my house
Pyracantha, collected in 2005 in MS
Azalea, collected in 2002 in my front yard
tanuki-dori on a dead juniper from my front yard in IA, attached in 2003

 

[catfish chapstick]

What makes it urban? Or yamadori? Im not sure if I grow urban yamadori or not. What the heck does it mean?

 

[Vance Wood]

What makes it urban? Or yamadori? Im not sure if I grow urban yamadori or not. What the heck does it mean?

Yamadori literally means collected from the mountains but in our culture we have perverted the term to make it refer to any tree collected anywhere from yards, fields, and farms. In short almost anything you have to dig from the ground that you did not plant there is considered Yamadori. If it is dug from the projects during the middle of night while armed and dangerous it is an urban Yamadori.

 

[Poink88]

This only took a couple of minutes to do. Unless your system works differently, or not at all, there is no reason you cannot do similar downloads. I hate to put this out there but when it comes to bonsai and you avoid things, it is really just lazy; laziness and bonsai are not good companions.

Laziness???? So you guys DICTATE now how we should respond? I waste my time the way I want...not yours. Thank you.

This is the biggest BS ever.

 

[Paradox]

This is why we cant have nice things

 

[Wee]

I'm not sure if Dario post pics the same way as I do or not....? I post url links to pics posted on my blog....I only have one attachment and that was from an upload during a dig with my cell phone. So it may not be as easy as just going to your attachments for him....? I will say I enjoy his post on the collected material and he has taken the time to answer questions for me when others here have not.

Brian

 

[Nybonsai12]

Can we please just ignore the nonsense and not derail this nice thread full of great pics.

Here is a japanese maple from my yard that I will try and chop next year.

 

[Poink88]

I'm not sure if Dario post pics the same way as I do or not....? I post url links to pics posted on my blog....I only have one attachment and that was from an upload during a dig with my cell phone. So it may not be as easy as just going to your attachments for him....? I will say I enjoy his post on the collected material and he has taken the time to answer questions for me when others here have not.

Brian

Thanks Brian,

With more than 5,000 posts (which lazy guy would do that?) and several hundreds of photos...it is not easy to find pics. I also have mix of uploaded pics here and photobucket. Most are hosted there now. More importantly (which I also explained my reasoning) is why I chose to do it that way.

People ask for $100 and if you give them $20, you are the bad guy. Talk about entitlement. Sadly, seems like the trend these days.

 

[Mike123]

Urban Yamadori

Here's a Boxwood I collected from a fast food establishment !
Collected last Feb.







Thanks great thread!

 

[Dav4]

Taxus, my favorite species!! Dug from a hedge.

I LOVE yews! Older hedge grown material is definitely underutilized. Unfortunately, yews with big trunks are almost impossible to find in the Southeast (I'm pretty sure I have the only two).

 

[Dav4]

Here's a Boxwood I collected from a fast food establishment !
Collected last Feb.

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Thanks great thread!

That's a sweet tree.

 

[Neli]

This is a cutting I planted long time ago on the farm and forgot about.

I dont know the name of it.
This is a bougainvillea Pixie which I dug out from my garden:

I cut off the bigger roots and left only the small feeder roots removed half of the soil and planted it in coarse sand

 

[Neli]

This is how it looked like 5 month ago

And this is how it looks now:

I chopped off the large branch that was coming off the base and planted it too:

And this is 5 month ago:

I have just too many urban yamadori.... I dug out my whole garden.
But I dont want to bore you with all of them.

 

[Dav4]

A few urban Yamadori on my benches...

Hawthorn, collected in 2000 near my house
Pyracantha, collected in 2005 in MS
Azalea, collected in 2002 in my front yard
tanuki-dori on a dead juniper from my front yard in IA, attached in 2003

Unbelievable trees. The hawthorn is the most accurately styled deciduous tree I've ever seen in person, the trunk on that pyracantha is awesome, and the beautiful azalea in flower is stunning. I would be hard pressed to pick a favorite from that group. Wonderful urban yamadori!