Trees from nature

Aleksa

Hello, I'm new one here. I'm Aleksa from Montenegro. I don't speak English very well, but I hope you will forgive me. There are 3 trees that I'm planning to dig in Spring. What do you think about them?

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Jay Wilson

Hello Aleksa,
You write english very well. At least you use capital letters, punctutation marks and spaces, which is more than a lot of people who have english as their first language bother to do. Thanks, it makes it much eaiser to read.

I think the trees you showed us look pretty good also. I like the second one. Good luck with them.

Jay

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Aleksa

Thank you! I think that the second one is the best too... I'm going to have problems with the third one, that Carpinus betulus...

bonsainotwar

I like the second and thrd ones,and wouldn't bother with the first one.Are they all the same kind ? You have a great eye for spotting good trees !

Aleksa

Thank you!

The first and the second one is Fraxinus ornus, and third one is Carpinus betulus!

ElGringo

lol!

Aleksa, I think those are some good trees. The one in the 3rd photograph is really beautiful. Good luck, there is always lots of friendly advice here if you need it!

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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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Aleksa

Thanks for advices! I do not speak English very well, so i"m sorry if you haven"t understood something! I'm planning to dig these trees from nature, and create bonsai from them! I know what yamadori is, and i have decided to collect bonsai from nature because I think that way is the most interesting, and the trees are wonderful! I would speak more, but I can't find proper words to explain that! I will stay in touch with you while collecting these trees!

Bonsaifreak

Welcome to the forum Aleks! I like all three! Keep us posted after you dig them up in spring.

Jorge

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