Who needs mountains?--these qualify as "yamadori?"

[rockm]

These two junipers have been growing in a parking lot island near my house for 40 years. Over that span of years, in winter they have been constantly smashed by snowplows with up to ten feet of snow plowed over them and left for months, In spring and summer, they have been bashed by kids with baseball bats/bicycles/soccer balls/etc., abused with weed wackers and lawnmowers by the grounds crew and are growing in extremely compacted clay soil.

I could probably get permission to dig them pretty easily, but having tried to shove them or wiggle them, they don't move AT ALL. Their roots have probably re-emerged in Australia or China by now.

 

[ChefB]

Is styling in place a thing? I’m familiar with niwaki, but has anyone styled a wild tree where it stood?

 

[rockm]

Is styling in place a thing? I’m familiar with niwaki, but has anyone styled a wild tree where it stood?

A bit of a hijack, but I'll bite.

I never have. Don't know why you'd do that, eliminate design options before you even get the tree out of the ground. Also, if you're trunk chopping/doing extreme work on a tree onsite, it will likely die. Trees in such stressed locations are fighting to survive competing trees, plants, etc. In doing such work, you remove substantial resources from the tree, in a lot of cases, that will be enough to send the tree over the edge, or allow competition to overshadow and outgrow it.

Things are different once that tree is in a container and out of the site. It is no longer at the mercy of natural selection/climate/nature. It is the collector's responsibility to give it what it needs.

 

[ChefB]

Certainly didn’t mean to hijack. I was just kind of thinking if you weren’t gonna dig them would you work on them? Or has anyone ever done that?

 

[hinmo24t]

the homeowners association wouldnt like that

cool trees

 

[ChefB]

How much roots are guys getting when they pull trees out of cracks in the mountains? I’m sure it would take a lot of effort, but could you trench around and Sawzall and cut it out of there? Would you get more roots than something coming out of a mountain?

 

[mattspinniken]

I would try it, they look much better than most "yamadori" I see. If they are solid in place that is a good and a bad sign. On one hand they probably have enough roots on the other other they are going to be difficult to dig. The trees that wiggle ALOT tend to die when collected.

 

[Shibui]

Their roots have probably re-emerged in Australia or China by now.

That would explain those roots I have to chop whenever I dig a hole in the garden.

 

[Shogun610]

I’ll come snag one

 

[Shogun610]

Are you gonna dig them up or what .

 

[HorseloverFat]

Around me, the flatter sections of Lakeshore dunes create ridiculous trees...



We need an English word that represents the struggle of these trees NOT from mountainous regions...

Like "Hard-Having Trees"!



Those are sweet.

Y'gonna dig em, big-guy?