bonhe
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Another big pomegranate.
Bonhe
Bonhe
Show us your Urban Yamadori
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Ignore-Amus
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These are some of my favorite trees of yours, Al.
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Yes, awesome trees!
bonhe
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Thanks Mcpesq817 and Dav4 for your kind comments.
This is a large crepe myrtle rescued from a shopping center parking lot, when my friend was demolishing it.
Last year.
I have been carving its trunk more than a month already, but did not finish yet!!
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PaulH
Omono
Another big pomegranate.
Bonhe
Beautiful pomegranates! I've had my eye out for one to dig for a long time but no luck so far.
bonhe
Masterpiece
Thanks PaulH. You might have to go down to Southern California to get more chance! I saw a lot of old houses here have big pomegranates,crepe myrtles and olives.
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gergwebber
Shohin
About the pomegranates, can you base cut those large trees, or are you keeping some longer roots? Does it take a long time to chase their roots back to a pot size?
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
Another big pomegranate.
Bonhe
Awesome trunk. Has this tree ever been wired out? It seems to have a faint outline of a canopy in there.....
bonhe
Masterpiece
Hi Gergwebber, pomegranate is one of the specimens that can easily make a large cutting survive! You need to give its surrounding environment lot of humidity after the cutting! Same as olive! That means you can cut its root all the way close to the trunk base!
Thanks Smoke. I have been training this tree for three years. I let those branches grow freely in the summer, then cut them back in the end of the winter and wire them at the same time. I have been trying to build up its apex.
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youngsai
Mame
Whoa that is a phenomenal Pomegranate, here are a few of my junipers, some of them I have high hopes for! There are 4 I'm collecting this spring which blow these out of the water in terms of snaking and sinuous bending trunks.
youngsai
Mame
and some more, the taller one with the decent circular nebari I hope to make a nice literati one day. The other I guess an informal upright, I'll probably soften that harsh curve by shifting it heads on a bit (facing the curve directly).
youngsai
Mame
This is a good photo of where i think my front for the literati is.
QuintinBonsai
Chumono
Tamerix. $1 raffle win. Alot of dead wood with one small live vein. It's going to take years for this thing to grow some decent sized branches.
Neli
Omono
I would style this like baeckea...View attachment 45140
Tamerix. $1 raffle win. Alot of dead wood with one small live vein. It's going to take years for this thing to grow some decent sized branches.
bonsaibp
Omono
The ficus was a tree in a clients garden that froze mostly to the ground. The following spring it started to grow again so we dug it up. I don't know if you can tell in the photos but the original main trunk died back to just about the roots. I spent about 10 years trying to get the scar to roll over. I was going to fill the void with cement and try again but you bought the tree. I'd like to see a current photo if you have any.
ghues
Omono
Urban J. maple rescued in 2007 from a landscape reno in town- went straight into a pot (didn't have grow beds back then)- , photo#1-Jan 2008, next two are from late this year.
Si Nguyen
Omono
Cool trees everybody! Thanks!
Here's my urban yamadori. It's a brush cherry that was a big garden topiary in my backyard. The trunk was about 5-6 inch. I chopped it down to the ground level in 1995. But it kept growing back. One year I forgot about it and it just took off. Then I decided to keep it and train it as a small bonsai in the ground. In the ground it was a very conventional double trunk design. I never saw that weird root curve. After I dug it up, I discovered some very interesting curve roots and some serious rot.
I decided to keep the weird root and exposed it further. I like that it looks like a wild yamadori instead of an "urban" yamadori. Here it is after a few years.
This picture is from a few years ago. It is much fuller right now. It needs a hair cut bad. I will submit a more current picture later.
Here's my urban yamadori. It's a brush cherry that was a big garden topiary in my backyard. The trunk was about 5-6 inch. I chopped it down to the ground level in 1995. But it kept growing back. One year I forgot about it and it just took off. Then I decided to keep it and train it as a small bonsai in the ground. In the ground it was a very conventional double trunk design. I never saw that weird root curve. After I dug it up, I discovered some very interesting curve roots and some serious rot.
I decided to keep the weird root and exposed it further. I like that it looks like a wild yamadori instead of an "urban" yamadori. Here it is after a few years.
This picture is from a few years ago. It is much fuller right now. It needs a hair cut bad. I will submit a more current picture later.
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