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23Jul2008
Yamadori
There is a lot of interest these days in 'Yamadori' or collecting bonsai material from the wild. In trendy contemporary bonsai circles especially in Europe, America and Japan, 'Yamadori' is all the rage. Yamadori is not a new concept or practice. Even in the olden days when the Chinese started making bonsai, it was generally recognised that the plants from the 'wild' places i.e. the
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Collecting Yamadori in Southeastern Europe
Andrija and I are from Croatia, we live together in Kaštela (region Dalmatia), a small town on the Adriatic coast, in a Mediterranean climate. We grow home Mediterranean species: Olive Tree (Olea Europaea), Mock Privet (Philyrea latifolia), Strawberry-tree (Arbutus unedo), Evergreen Oak (Quercus ilex), Phienicean Juniper (Juniperus phoenicea) and others, and plants from somewhar colder
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