Yamadori
The Gower Hawthorn
Crataegus monogyna
Shaped by forty years of one prevailing wind
Windswept · 69 cm · c. 180 yrs
£16,500
Yamadori
Stonecrop
Juniperus communis · Common juniper
Off a Cairngorm slope in 1991, under licence
A literati juniper with more deadwood than live vein, on a trunk that took the mountain three hundred years to make and a collector one morning to lift. The single live line runs the length of it and is the only thing keeping it alive.
Price on request
Available
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.
Arrange a viewingor ring the nursery on +44 1273 841 209
Through the year
- SpringNew growth barely perceptible
- SummerBlue-grey foliage, silver deadwood
- AutumnColour drops out of the live vein
- WinterBronzes off — the shari goes white
The tree
- Style
- Literati · bunjin
- Age
- About 320 years old
- Training
- In training since 1991 · 35 years
- Height
- 91 cm
- Spread
- 54 cm
- Pot
- Unglazed crescent, Japanese, maker unknown
- Keeping it
- It has survived worse than your garden. Full exposure, sharp drainage, and never repot it in the same decade you style it.
Where it came from
Collected in 1991 with the estate’s permission, from ground being cleared for a track. It spent nine years in a box recovering and was not touched with wire until 2004. We have the original licence, the collector’s notes, and a photograph of the hole it came out of.
Alongside it
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The nursery’s own. It is not going anywhere.
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Not for sale