The 2023 Yamadori/Collecting Thread

[Sticks 'n' Triangles]

Dug this shrub up from the garden. I think it's Euonymus japonicus ‘Macrophyllus Albovariegatus’
Got some potential as multi-trunk

Noticed some tiny scale insects though, hopefully I can deal with that before they suck it dry... Any pro-tips for scale? I have some neem oil if that works outside?

 

[trigo]

Well... it's a big boy. Jabuticaba or Jaboticaba (myrciaria cauliflora) yamadorish.

Hope it recovers.

 

[Frozentreehugger]

Well... it's a big boy. Jabuticaba or Jaboticaba (myrciaria cauliflora) yamadorish.

Hope it recovers.

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Damm

 

[Cajunrider]

Well... it's a big boy. Jabuticaba or Jaboticaba (myrciaria cauliflora) yamadorish.

Hope it recovers.

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Wow!!

 

[Cajunrider]

Had fun with a few BCs.

 

[Shogun610]

I can’t wait to start collecting March-April… I’m JONESING

 

[sevan]

Yesterday I pulled up a wisteria from my yard as part of my invasive removal plan. I'm debating if I want to chop the top off or air layer it. Right now it is really top heavy, so I have it propped up a bit; it's wired in, but the plastic Anderson flat is having a hard time keeping it up. Chopping it would solve the problem, but there's a decent top (not pictured) above the straight section at the top of the photo.

 

[Shogun610]

American Elm or a birch I think it’s an elm.

 

[Shogun610]

The ideal angle but it’s sitting like this

 

[Frozentreehugger]

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The ideal angle but it’s sitting like this
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Very nice I don’t think it’s a birch . But I have been wrong before I’m married . Where is it from always interested in . Conditions growing environment. Where collected trees come from . Good idea for us to share . May inspire someone’s search area

 

[Shogun610]

Very nice I don’t think it’s a birch . But I have been wrong before I’m married . Where is it from always interested in . Conditions growing environment. Where collected trees come from . Good idea for us to share . May inspire someone’s search area

It was in a rock pocket

 

[Shogun610]

Very nice I don’t think it’s a birch . But I have been wrong before I’m married . Where is it from always interested in . Conditions growing environment. Where collected trees come from . Good idea for us to share . May inspire someone’s search area

Last fall when I scouted it

 

[Frozentreehugger]

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Last fall when I scouted it

Nice I suspected a rock crack tree . From the pic of the roots . I often have similar opportunity . A vast amount of Ontario is large outcrops of rock . Creating pockets . Without mountains . It’s some of are best areas . Have you got into expanding a rock pocket . Or just take what you can access in the crack

 

[Rcritter01]

Cedar elm I saved from a chain link fence being torn down.

 

[Frozentreehugger]

Always need to be on the lookout . Delivering stuff for my wife to a local farm. So driving down a backroad stopped because snow removal equipment is blocking next intersection for a few minutes . Look over at old farm pasture this is what I see . For scale both are about 4 to 5 feet tall . Have a very wild apple look about them . Will have to track down land owner ( may not be easy ) and ask permission . But we will see

 

[crab apple]

Here's a BC I dug the other day, its got some character including some dead wood I will carve out. I also dug two juvenile BCs and planted in a little stream by my house.

 

[Cajunrider]

Among the BCs I collected last month was this little gem. I think it will be potted in a bonsai pot next year.

 

[Frozentreehugger]

Among the BCs I collected last month was this little gem. I think it will be potted in a bonsai pot next year.
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Considering how prolific a grower BC is . Have you considered creating a style you would not traditionally see a BC . Semi cascade for example just curious

 

[Cajunrider]

Considering how prolific a grower BC is . Have you considered creating a style you would not traditionally see a BC . Semi cascade for example just curious

I’ve learned not to fight BC for a cascade. I might buy a cascade fall BC to create a cascade.

 

[Backwardsvg]

What is a cascade fall bc?