Saturday, 15 March 2008
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
Friday, 7 March 2008
Tuesday, 4 March 2008
More on Trunks
Frozen snow on ash trunks in Sussex, and extraordinarily bendy holm oaks in Provence. Hard to know the history of these holm oaks, perhaps they grew as part of a dense scrub, and have been tidied up for the public- they're at the village des bories, old dry stone shepherds huts, near Gordes.
OK, not really topiary or niwaki, but they could be!
Saturday, 1 March 2008
Dai Mochi
More trunks: this is what happens when you graft berry-bearing bits of Ilex integra into big old trunks (also of I. integra). Like Dai Sugi before, the dai bit means base (referring to the trunk), and shouldn't be confused with another, more common meaning of the word; big, or great.
Top picture at Ise Jingu, bottom one on a nursery in Osaka.
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