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Category Archives: yamadori
A matter of taste or, the past is prologue
Time for a haircut. In more ways than one…….Yeah, lookin’ like a crazy man here recently. In fact, it’s getting easier and easier to lose oneself in the electric lime green foliage of this tree….. Dumm dum duhmmmmmmm! I’m a … Continue reading
Posted in branch placement, philosophical rant, rare finds, refine, updates, wiring, yamadori
Tagged bonsai, celtis laevigata, Ficus salicaria, Hackberry, nerifolia, salicifolia, sugarberry, trees, willow-leaf ficus
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A flat-top, bald cypress bonsai story, and a question.
I posted a pic in the social media jungle a few weeks ago. It caused some debate (aside from the flack I got from the recycle bin in the background, that is). It wasn’t really my intention to stir the puddin’ … Continue reading
Sugarberry….aw, honey honey…..you are my bonsai tree….and I think I love you!
Two collected hackberries. If’n you follow me on Instagram or the Facebooks, you’ll remember that I was lamenting the loss of a stand of native celtis nearby. Now, granted, it’s been heavily collected from by fellow bonsai practitioners but, as some … Continue reading
Posted in branch placement, Horticulture and growing, rare finds, styling bonsai, yamadori
Tagged bonsai, celtis laevigata, florida bobsai, Hackberry, native trees, southern, sugarberry, trees
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Collecting from the wild (actually, my nursery)
I have this tree that I’ve been growing out (well…..I have many trees, but this one is in the ground, it was a volunteer, maybe deposited by bird trying to poop on my head, a southern hackberry, a name I … Continue reading
Posted in Horticulture and growing, rare finds, roots, tips and tricks, yamadori
Tagged bonsai, celtis laevigata, collecting, Hackberry, native trees, root suckers, southern hackberry, sugarberry, trees
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Winter Silhouette Expo, 2016
I think I have enough pics to to write at least three posts on the Winter Silhouette Expo but I’m not sure if I will. I could do one on show prep, one on the demos and extracurricular adventures and, … Continue reading
Posted in goings, pictures, refine, yamadori
Tagged Adam Lavigne, bonsai, kannapolis, north carolina, Owen Reich, rodney clemmons, trees, valavanis, winter silhouette expo
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A Party in Five Photos, The Drunken Literati
Let’s have us a quickie! I’ll let that above phrase tickle your funny bone…a bit…. Release your creative juices….. Stimulate your mind….. We are talking about a conocarpus erectus…..after all I could last… all day with the double entendres but … Continue reading
Posted in Art, branch placement, rare finds, videos, wiring, yamadori
Tagged bonsai, Buttonwood, conocarpus erectus, trees, yamadori
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Adamaskwhy on YouTube!
I’m excited to present to my readers this preview trailer for my first YouTube video! With the help of my new partner in crime, Richard Bonn, we filmed all the footage, we just need to edit it all together and … Continue reading
Posted in goings, refine, wiring, yamadori
Tagged bonsai, Buttonwood, conocarpus erectus, mangle boton, video, YouTube
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