Yamadori stories.

carmi

This year I had a good Yamadori season with good survival ratio.
I had collected few trees, olives, pins and oaks, and a very strange wiled almond.

The most interesting Yamadori story is about the wiled olive and the wild almond.

I did a preliminary tour in the planed yamadori area, on the mountains near Jerusalem.
While finding some pins that were trying to survive on the rocks surface, I had raised my eyes and suddenly my heart missed a beat, at a distance of about 50 meters I had seen an olive BONSAI planted in the stone surface of a rocky area.
Not leaving my eyes for this Bonsai tree I had began stepping towards it. At about ten meters away it still looked like Bonsai. Suddenly I had stopped, I really don't know how and why, at my feet was a huge hole, an opening of a cave, and I had almost fall into it.

I had surrounded the cave, there were old stairs carved in the rock and other signs of an ancient inhabited cave, and then I reached to the tree, it was a very unusual tree, it had two trunks, one cascade very old trunk about 30 to 50 years old and one informal upright about 10 to 20 years old.
It began from a seed that fall into a small hole in the rock surface, and in a very poor conditions it had grow the first old trunk, then one of its roots found its way out of the hole to a more fertile environment and than grow the younger trunk.

On the "roof" of the cave growing in a crack in the rock was a very old wild Almond, one of its branches made a lairing in another crack in the rock and grows a very small and old tree.

A month later I had collected both trees, unfortunately on both occasions I didn't had my camera with me, but I want again to the same area and took some photos.

I had a lot of thinking what to do with the two trunks olive, eventually I had decided that as a bonsai I have to separate them.

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carmi

Olive "operation"

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PatArizona

Moshe...

Nice story...good find!

Pat

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carmi

The wild Almond

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Moshe.

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carmi

Some more this year yamadori trees:

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Shalom (Peace),
Moshe.

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kcpoole

Very nice collecting there Carmi

Enough there to keep you very busy in a couple of years when you start to work them.

If you have too many, bring them here when you next visit and I will help you

Ken

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carmi

Thank you Ken, will do .

The first two photos are of Quercus itlaburensis, first photo at collecting and second form last week.

The second three photos are of Jerusalem pine, first photo at collecting and third photo form this week.

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Shalom (Peace),
Moshe.

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carmi

The olive with the old trunk repotted to a locally hand made pot – any guess for the pot price?

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Moshe.

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anttal63

thats amazing carmi great finds good luck to you

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