Category Archives: yamadori

Some trees are show-ers, some trees are growers

Posted on December 5, 2018 by

Rainy days and Monday always get me down. What to do on a rainy day while sitting in your PT Loser, waiting for the kids? Well, today, I think I’ll do a little whittling. The tree in the back seat … Continue reading →

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Did you just call me escambron again….that’s it, I’m gonna….wait, what, that’s the name of a tree?

Posted on October 1, 2018 by

Escambron, a tree native to Puerto Rico. If you say escambron with just a little bit of the emphasis on the right syllable and slur it a bit, you might just be saying a bad word (shut your mouth…) Let’s … Continue reading →

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Taming a She-Oak

Posted on August 28, 2018 by

Today, for your narrative and viewing pleasure, we have an: Aussie pine, she oak, ironwood, horsetail tree, beefwood, whistling tree, and every combination of the above. Here in Florida we call the casuarina equisetifolia an Australian pine. Some call it … Continue reading →

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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 puddin’ … 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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