Friday 27 March 2009

Tree Collecting

Who said you cant find yamadori these days, you just have to walk down the road......!!
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'High on a hill was a lonely goatherd,
Lay ee odl lay ee odl lay hee hoo'
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You've not seen me........right!
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'Men on a road with a load to tote heard,
Lay ee odl lay ee odl-oo'
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One for the garden
(Trying hard to think of a clean joke about what it looks like..........but cant!)
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Trip to Snowdonia.
Where we collected mostly Larch, which we were able to just pull up with hardly any effort and very little digging involved.
It was a quarry area so they were growing mainly in slate & came away easily.
A few Oak, Silver Birch & the odd Juniper, as you can see Jean had to have a pine that was growing on the side of the mountain- when we got it down it was decided to make a 'garden' bonsai of it!!
Participants-

Dave B, Dave Y, Sean, Jean, Mark K, Arthur & Brian

Words and pictures by Brian M Productions.

1 comment:

Nitsuj said...

hahahaha good one... about the joke hahaha funny

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