I found a peach tree / Prunus persica yamadori that I'm collecting for Bonsai material from a rubble pile.
Yamadori collecting usually happens in a natural environment. However, we can often find bonsai material even closer, in the urban environment where trees manage to grow naturally in the strangest places and they are in most cases unwanted by the land owners. So collecting trees for bonsai can be also done from someone's garden or, in my case, a rubble pile from a construction site. So the next time you plan on going on yamadori hunting consider taking a walk in your neighborhood.
The urban yamadori (or urbandori) that I'm collecting this time is a peach tree (Prunus persica) that I noticed recently in a rubble pile from a construction site not far from my home. It's far from being the perfect yamadori material as it has many wounds, probably from some rabbits or other animals that were chewing on it, although I'm not excluding the possibility that it was also stepped on at some point. In this video I'm digging it up and planting it in a basket like pot to experiment with air pruning of the roots. Some pruning was also in order to remove all the damaged branches.
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