I spent a long day digging yew from a site that is about to go under construction. In all, eleven members of the Northern Virginia Bonsai Society came out to get their hands on some really fantastic material.
I estimate that these shrubs have been on the site for 40 to 60 years, and their size corresponds as you would expect. The base measurement of most of the specimens was somewhere around 8 to 10 inches, and while they all have multiple trunks, we were all able to find plants that had one or two dominant trunks that will inform the future design of the trees.
As you would imagine, getting material of this size out of the ground and into your vehicle is no easy task. These folks really earned these trees! I can’t wait to see them show up at NVBS workshops in a couple of years after…
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