Yamadori Larch

Candy_J_Shirey

Here is something that you don't find very often:
(1) beautiful taper from bottom to top
(2) strong rootage
(3) good branch selection
all on a four-and-a-half foot collected larch!

It is easy to see a future for this one and in five years, you just know this is going to be a nice specimen tree.

This is my new toy. (Time to start scoping out a future pot.)

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Camay123

Great find.

The only thing it lack, is lower branching.

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Candy_J_Shirey

Camay -
Maybe it isn't quite apparent in the photo but there are a few nice branches at least half way down the trunk. I don't see this tree lacking with branches. I guess you just have to see it in person to see the potential. - (or wait five years for the final product .)

pdbbonsai

Candy,

Nice tree. Are you still collecting these this time of year? I have very good luck in late winter to late spring. about 40% during the fall collection (survival). But never have collected during summers..... just wondering.

A friend of mine has a similar collected larch. He is concidering a future of tucking another smaller tree into the base of the taller one. He will cut a wedge into the area near the base, and fit the smaller tree up against the base. This will "fill" the space needed from the side that is empty. A thought.


Paul

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Ralph

I agree, that will make a fine bonsai. Good luck with it.

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bonsaial1

Ahhh... Christmas in July, and you now have the tree! Very nice speciman, keep us posted on this ones development.

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stonemonkey

Hi Candy

You have a great looking tree there. I suppose I am a bit biased as I do like Larches, I have got one in my gallery. Especially when those "little green shaving brushes" emerge in Spring.

I think that by wiring all the branches down and even keeping and jinning the dead ones, wil make this tree a statley specimen.

Good luck with the styling

Andy

"May your trees go from strength to strength"

Candy_J_Shirey

Paul-
No this was not "just collected." It was collected in the bogs of Maine in the spring by a forester friend of mine. As you rightly suspect, it would probably not be a very good idea to collect this larch at this time of year.



Thanks for the thought but I believe that this tree can stand on its own. I have spent many hours in the galleries of Nick Lenz - he has been called "The King of Larch" - with some of the finest bonsai larch specimens, so I have a fair amount of inspiration to carry to this tree.



Andy - That's a wonderful larch in your gallery. I love larch also and especially like watching them change through the seasons. I actually have several collected trees. Some, you may remember from this thread.



At this point, that is exactly my plan.



That's it! It does feel like Christmas and I am a kid with a new toy. All this new found enthusiasum could not be contained - so I spilled a little here on the forum

-Candy

W3rdSmyth

Thanks for sharing your tree and your enthusiasm! Both are very encouraging to new guys (of which I am one). My project this weekend has been building a six foot long, three foot wide two tiered bonsai display/work table that will hold the few beginning trees I have as well as expanding as I develop more skill.

I don't have much of an eye yet for what is good and what is bad according to the way things are supposed to be done, but my comment is that I think that is one very cool and THICK tree. Thanks again for sharing. Best of luck!