Yamadori Excursion 2023, Part 1
First part of an article covering this year’s yamadori collecting trip.
Yamadori
Another Swamp Monster in the Making
The early beginnings of a great informal upright bald cypress that was collected from the wild.
Hanging out with the Austin Bonsai Society
I had the pleasure of giving a demonstration and workshop in Austin, Texas, this past week. I was invited out to their beautiful meeting space at Zilker Botanical Garden. We share a lot native elm trees with central Texas but one in the particular that I’ve always have wanted to work with is the cedar …
A Stump of a Tree
Okay, it’s time to clear up a lot of things up about these little potted stump trees we have everywhere around the nursery. For those who don’t know, I’m referring to all the freshly collected yamadori. They are the trees that were dug up, heavily root pruned, and tied down into training pots this season. …