tree project

Graciela Cassel - Chinese hackberry sprouted

the persimmon, the ginkgo, and one of the hackberry seeds successfully germinated and are now small seedlings.  Thank you Hiroshi, I love my trees. Briggs Clinco

堀口さん、 ご無沙汰です。 エノキと銀杏が家で育っている模様です。両方とも長く冷蔵庫に入れてあったので生きていただけでも吃驚です。 砂入 Hiroshi Sunairi sunairi.wordpress.com “What the modern movie lacks is beauty,”  said D.W. Griffith , “the beauty of the moving wind in the trees.”

One seed grew.  This picture is of the young Hackberry tree and me. He grew outdoors until just a few days ago. The frosty weather has brought him into a cool room.  He's living now, in a cool sunny room for the winter.   I will try to bonsai the tree next summer, once he a little more established. Craig David

I plan on planting the seedlings as part of a food forest project I've been working on for the past couple of years.  I blogged about the seeds here:  http://www.foodforestgarden. org/seeds-of-history-hibaku- the-a-bombed-trees/   and  here:   http://www.foodforestgarden. org/five-figs-and-five-hibaku- seedlings/ Thanks again for the opportunity.  I'm very interested in future seeds, especially from food bearing species! --- Zack Dowell

My Tree Project! A sturdy sprout towering but I forgot which seed I planted here...either Ginkgo or Chinese Hackberry seed of the trees that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima!! -Hiroshi Sunairi

砂入さま、 こんにちは。 お元気ですか？ 長らく芽がでなかったのですが、暖かくなって来たら、 ぐんぐんと成長しはじめました。 そろそろ大きめの鉢に植え替えなければと思っています。 鈴木ゆみ -------- Hi, Mr. Sunairi, Hello! How are you? For a long time, it hadn't seem to be sprouting, but then when it got warmer,  suddenly, it's growing so much. It's also about the time to replant it into a bigger pot. Yumi Suzuki

Hi! Here's finally a couple of pictures! It's me and my sons, with the seedlings in our garden in Skjetten, Norway. 4 Gingko  and 3 enoki! Question: I sometimes get questions about radiation and mutation in the seedlings. What should I answer? Best, Per Arne ******************* Hi, Per Arne, To answer, I quote from tree Dr. Horiguchi who take care of Hibaku trees in Hiroshima and is from my documentary, "Tree Project Film" There are traces of radiations in annual rings of these trees. According to some scientists, for about 3 years after the A-bomb in 1945 till 1948 these trees had grown larger than usual. After those 3 years, annual rings of the trees got slimmer, and their growth toned down. This implies since enormous damages were done to the trees externally, to protect themselves the trees poured their energy to grow stronger for three years, mending and healing themselves. After 3 ...

無事引っ越し終えました。 育ってくれるといいなぁ タカコさんも面白い人ですね。今度ご近所でまた会いましょう！ We just finished moving (planting) them. I hope they grow!! I enjoyed hanging out with Takako ! Let's get together in our neighborhood! Joe and Aki

砂入さん Hi, Hiroshi, 今日は悲しいお知らせとなってしまいました。 I have a sad news to share with you today. ４月頭に芽をだしたtree projectの木ですが、今日お家に帰ってきたら 「うーんもうだめ」となっていました。 My Tree Project seed sprouted at the beginning of this April, but I found it down on the ground when I came home today... he didn't seem to be well at all. 先週末に手に入れたおもちゃの電柱を植木 鉢に 加えて、ほくほくしていたのに。。。 I was so excited, especially after getting a toy street lamp last weekend, having it join the tree in the pot.  実は今日の夜か明日にでも砂入さんとお知らせしようと 思って今日の朝写真とったところだったのに。。。 I was going to report to you about my bitty tree tonight or tomorrow with a photograph from this morning.. 毎日話しかけていたのがプレッシャーとなったのかもしれない。 Maybe it was too much pressure for the tree that I was talking to him every day. （というのは、種を植えた後一週間くらい毎日じっくり気になって 見つめていた間は発芽しなかったのに、 週末ボストンに旅行に行って 家にいなかったら発芽していた、という過去を踏んでいるから。） (Well, because, it didn't sprout for a week or so while I was looking at it really closely every day... but it did happily during my ...

 2009 Now in 2010

"Last December, Hiroshi kindly gave me this large plant that had full of leaves on its branch when he had a solo exhibition in Horticultural Society of New York. After his exhibition had finished, I took the plant to my apartment. but the leaves started falling off because of the cold wether. ............ One day in June, while I was going out, I put the pots on the fire escape to give them sun light. that was the time a big squirrel I had sometimes saw came and dug the soil in the pots and bit the plants at its root..........to read all the texts along with his beautiful pictures, take a look at  http://www.flickr.com/photos/katsuhirosaiki/sets/72157624816952658/with/4931031039/

"Congrats, Verònica!!"

I will be a group exhibition with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yoko Ono and more. I will show Tree Project documentations, my Hibaku Japanese Hackberry seedling and Hibaku persimmon seedling. I hope to see you guys there. --> For immediate release: contact: alex@thedropnyc.org Exhibition Title: 2012+ Date: Opening and Arts Festival: Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 From Noon-5PM The special exhibition 2012+ will be open through October 17, 2009. Location: 4th Floor Gallery 521 W. 25th Street Between 10th and 11th Aves New York, NY Visit: www.thedropnyc.org FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC The Drop: Urban Art Infill presents the special exhibition 2012+ curated by Alexandra Chang and Mie Iwatsuki. The title is partly coined from the Mayan calendar, indicating an upcoming shift from one phase of life to something new about to take shape. As the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012, a certain sense of impending urgency is represented by th...

Last year, I received 5 Hibaku seedlings from Tree Doctor Riki Horiguchi in Hiroshima, Japan. They were Japanese Hackberry, 2 Ginkgo and 2 Chinese Parasol Tree seedlings. This summer, 2009, they were grown much bigger and I decided to give them away to various people. This is Japanese Hackberry tree seedling. This was given to people at the City Museum of Contemporary Art. This was a Ginkgo Tree seedling. This was planted in a ceramic elephant foot pot that I made. The pot with the Ginkgo was sold to a collector in Tokyo, Japan. This Ginkgo was to be left at my parents' place. This Chinese Parasol Tree seedling was given to Mr. Yuso Takesawa. The Parasol Tree with Mr. Yuso Takesawa. Temporarily, the Parasol Tree stayed in Mr. Takesawa's friend's place. And the last tall Chinese Parasol Tree seedling was... planted in a ceramic elephant pot that I made. Now it is loaned to a collector in Hiroshima, Japan.

Congrats, Barry!!

‘Religion is the wound, not the bandage.’ -- Dennis Potter Tom Gilroy, t he end of June, the Japanese Hackberry seed sprouted and this pic was taken on July 26, 2009 July 2, 2009 Dr Patrick So: in reverence abandoned Hackberry bows forth Congratulations, guys!!

Originally I have sent Japanese Hackberry seeds to Kathleen and while being sent, all the seeds were smashed.........since then I have been sending seeds wrapped in plastic bag in an envelope. Thus, I sent Kathleen Sendan and now it sprouted! Congrats, Kathleen My Sendan trees have either lived on my window sill or on the roof of my house. I live in an apartment in one of the older historic homes in Bristol, RI. My apartment is on the second floor and I am lucky to have lots of wonderful light for indoor plants. Out of one of my windows I have access to the roof of the enclosed porch below and from there I established a small summer container garden. Along with the herbs and tomatoes, my little Sendan trees thrived all summer in the open air. Then in September and more urgently in October, their leaves began to turn yellow and fall away from the trees. I became worried about them and thought they might be dying. When Hiroshi asked me to send images of the trees and a statem...