Yamadori
Stonecrop
Juniperus communis
Off a Cairngorm slope in 1991, under licence
Literati · 91 cm · c. 320 yrs
Price on request
ExhibitedNursery collection
Scars
Pinus sylvestris · Scots pine
The nursery’s own. It is not going anywhere.
The tree the nursery is judged by, and the reason half the people who visit make the drive. Struck by lightning at some point before it was collected, which accounts for the shari running the full height of the trunk.
Not for sale
Nursery collection
No tree leaves here on the strength of a photograph. Come and walk round it first — we will hold anything for a fortnight while you decide. Delivery is by hand, in our own van, anywhere in the British Isles.
Every tree goes with a year of aftercare: repotting when it wants it, winter cover, and a standing invitation to bring it back if it sulks. Most people use it. Nobody has ever been charged for it.
Part of the nursery’s own collection, and not for sale at any price.
Through the year
- SpringCandles late, and unevenly
- SummerFoliage tight to the pads
- AutumnBark goes orange in low sun
- WinterWhite deadwood against black needle
The tree
- Style
- Slanting · shakan
- Age
- About 250 years old
- Training
- In training since 1986 · 40 years
- Height
- 104 cm
- Spread
- 128 cm
- Pot
- Unglazed oval, Gordon Duffett
- Keeping it
- Kept where it can be seen from the office window, which is the only care instruction that has ever mattered to it.
Where it came from
Collected in Perthshire in 1986 by the nursery’s founder, on what he described for the rest of his life as the best day he ever had. Shown eleven times. Offered for sale twice, both times by mistake, both times withdrawn within the hour.
Alongside it
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