More Yamadori Finds (part 3)
Since I last wrote about the hazel yamadori I spotted I have dug it up and brought it home. It’s been planted in the ground of my garden for the past week or so recovering from the move. I didn’t leave it there long because I didn’t have to do anything drastic to it like cutting off a lot of roots. All it’s had is a little trim of the roots and that’s it.
Today I dug up my yamadori hazel and begun creating the jins ready for the pot. It took me a good 2 hours to create the jins that I liked the look of. I cut off the top section of the tree as it was a bit too tall for a bonsai sized tree.
I got to work on the tree after cutting the top section off by peeling back the bark from the top downwards. When that got too difficult I went to work on it with a knife, scraping the bark off and gouging out a few hollows and holes. Finally I tidied everything up with my dremel making sure that all the bark was off and that the jins were a good shape.
I planted it into a plastic training pot and painted lime sulphur onto the new jins to preserve them.
All in all I am very pleased with the results so far and can’t wait to see the new growth starting in spring.
