johnbonsai

Hi Aleksa, welcome, I thought your thread would show pictures of big fully grown trees' in their natural surroundings so we could use their images as inspiration for styling. However trees' such as these in your thread, we would refer to them as yamadori, this is a Japanese word meaning from the mountains. The word's meaning goes back to naturally dwarfed trees' that have been colected from the mountains in Japan and planted into pots using bonsai techniques. Nowadays we loosely use this word for field grown trees'- plants that have been grown in the open ground before being- "bonsai'd". Calling your pictures Yamadori might give you some more excitement towards them because good specimens' of Yamadori are very highly prized! If you can create bonsai with these trees' and keep them true to themselves, meaning, the one that has its roots clinging to the ground, if it could be potted still showing the roots clinging and holding on for example, these plants will make very beautiful bonsai yamadori. You are making a very impressive start, I just hope you can treat these plants' the way they deserve. Please keep in touch with bonsai talk and get any advice you need. And also show us your work with them, I'm sure there are lots of people both new and old that would love to see how things go!

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