Yamadori Olive Bonsai

Wild olive olea yamadori 8 years 9 months ago 956 hey guys iv just joined the forum and want some advice on the wild olive that i dug out as a yamadori.

Yamadori olive bonsai. Angel mota invited me visit his garden and take a look at the spectacular olive bonsai that he works. Getting an olives root system and soil right is important for success in bonsai. Yamadori wild olive bonsai material olea sylvestris is a small leaf variety of olive tree native to mediterranean regions. His house and garden is in the capital palma and we spent a few hours discussing ideas and swapping yamadori hunting stories.

Large volumes of moler cat litter or akadama are a definite no no. I left an older trunk of 3 4 and 2 feet tall that had emerged. Olives are incredibly robust trees that are perfect for bonsai cultivation. It s a yamadori olive dug out of the mountains of italy about 5 years ago by a friend of mine.

I was holidaying with carolyn on the island of majorca just off the coast of spain. The olive bonsai needs a place with full sun which also helps to reduce the size of the leaves. It was cared for for 3 years till i got it. Bonsai must be approached as a journey of creativity the destination being the tree finished although we all know that a bonsai is never actually finished this olive has been developed over the last two years nobody was interested in the raw material when it was for sale at the noelanders trophy in 2011.

I collected a large olive stump last november and put in large wood box with pumice. The stump had shot up five or six talk shoots about 1 to 1 1 2 inches in diameter and 6 or more feet tall. It is best to place the olive tree in a cold greenhouse which is kept frost free. I have been doing bonsai for about just under a year now.

The bonsai the olea europea silvestris commonly known in mallorca as ullastre grows predominantly in mallorca and it is a wild variety of the olive tree that we offer almost exclusively. I trimmed those back to about 2 feet. I know some japanese artists recently started working with them and excepting them as bonsai. Suitable growing media for olive bonsai in the uk any growing media should be alkaline olives naturally grow on limestone.

When it was dug out he chopped the top off and planted it in plastic container.