Category Archives: yamadori

A matter of taste or, the past is prologue

Posted on May 4, 2017 by

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 →

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A flat-top, bald cypress bonsai story, and a question. 

Posted on March 6, 2017 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Sugarberry….aw, honey honey…..you are my bonsai tree….and I think I love you!

Posted on January 31, 2017 by

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 →

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Collecting from the wild (actually, my nursery) 

Posted on January 18, 2017 by

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 →

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Winter Silhouette Expo, 2016

Posted on December 9, 2016 by

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 →

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A Party in Five Photos, The Drunken Literati

Posted on October 3, 2016 by

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 →

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Adamaskwhy on YouTube!

Posted on August 9, 2016 by

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 →

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