Price I think is because they are quite slow growing but are a large size. Seems reasonable to me, having been trained beautifully as well. Lovely to see.
クリスさん、ありがとうございました。これからも日本の写真を紹介してください。☺️
Thanks, Omori. The price does seem fair considering.
These are such venerable looking trees - especially that Black Pine! And the maples too. It's amazing that garden centres offer such mature specimens, and I presume to offer expert advice when moving the trees because it would be awful to lose them (:
Thanks, Molamola. I wondered about that too. I suppose they must offer the full service. Perhaps families that traditionally do this type of thing would have even better specimens than at this garden centre.
Once again, your photos are endlessly fascinating, Chris. What an opportunity to see the ordinary Japanese gardens and nurseries we rarely get to see. Do you have an instagram where you post these too?
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Thanks a lot @carletonexotic. I don’t, but that’s a very good idea. I’ll look into it and be sure to let people know when I do. Thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks a lot @AnnaB. That’s a good question and I’m not exactly sure. There is a garden design plan which came along with the house plans. Though the previous owner told me they had incorporated some previous trees from before, now I think of it, his wife seemed to say many were new at that time. That would make many of the trees about 30 years old (not including however long they spent in a nursery before that time?).
Checking online about the Maki tree, it seems to say they can be very slow growing in the wild and a bit faster with care. They are about 3m. Which would mean about fully grown. Conflicting stuff online though. I’m not sure.
🙇 (cue Japanese emoji of person bowing in apology).
Thanks for taking the trouble to post all theses @chris.elsdon, very interesting. There is a nursery in Enfield N London that sells mature cloud pruned trees, but they are way more expensive than those you have shown, not really surprising as they are probably imported.
Just a quick question. I hope that’s OK. I have been posting about Japanese gardens. Today, I happened to be in my local library in Japan and I found some books that may be of interest to members on this forum. But I wondered about copyright issues. I did search the forum quickly, but could not find anything. Do members think it’s OK post images from a Japanese book? (Especially if it’s slightly older and out of print).
It’s just that living in Japan I might have access to books that would be of interest.
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Thanks, Molamola. I wondered about that too. I suppose they must offer the full service. Perhaps families that traditionally do this type of thing would have even better specimens than at this garden centre.
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Just a quick question. I hope that’s OK. I have been posting about Japanese gardens. Today, I happened to be in my local library in Japan and I found some books that may be of interest to members on this forum. But I wondered about copyright issues. I did search the forum quickly, but could not find anything. Do members think it’s OK post images from a Japanese book? (Especially if it’s slightly older and out of print).
Chris
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