23:13Turning a 500-Year-Old Yamadori CA Juniper into a Bonsai
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A 500-year-old tree is hard to picture, and here it is, a twisted, silver trunk that looks like driftwood. The presenter's hands on it show the scale. You click to see how anyone reshapes something that old without killing it.
The title is aimed at bonsai insiders, with 'Yamadori' meaning collected from the wild, while the thumbnail keeps only the part anyone understands, 500 years.
500-YEAR-OLD BONSAI sits on plain grey space, away from the tree, and the presenter's bright red cardigan against the silver deadwood makes both stand out at feed size.
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