tree project

"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/

"Hello Hiroshi, I wanted to send you pictures of our Persimmon tree because she's been doing so well this summer! She was in the show at the Horticultural Society. They took very good care of her. They said she was very healthy. She did have a little bit of a white bug type thing under her leaves and they explained that that often times comes from the soil that we buy in the store. They sprayed her leaves with dish soap and water and the little white bugs left. We brought her home and I got concerned that the underside of her leaves were going to get the bugs again so I started misting under her leaves. I have no idea if I'm right about this but I feel like it made her feel tickled and good because now she's been growing like crazy! I've sent 3 pictures. One of them shows a leaf that is not the typical shape. It is kind of heart-shaped. Is this normal for persimmons? There were two and then one grew out into the typical oval leaf shape. The other one is continui...

George Pisegna - HSNY Director of Horticulture wrote about the day Jimmy Mirikitani came to Tree Project exhibition at HSNY at http://hsny.blogspot.com/2010/02/jimmy-mirikitani-at-hort.html

NYU Photo teacher and photographer, Sean Justice wrote about his planting Hibaku Persimmon seed with extensive photo-documentation. Take a look at his beautiful photos of The Horticultural Society of New York and his refrigerator.........!! His blog is about his thoughts on photography and images. http://seanjustice.blogspot.com/2009/06/tree-project-start.html

HIROSHI SUNAIRI at The Horticultural Society of New York LEUR L'EXISTENCE – TREE PROJECT Welcome to the Tree Project! “ Nature tells us with no ideological standpoint about war, atomic bombs, peace, nature, and the environment.” – Dr. Riki Horiguchi Over sixty years ago, the city of Hiroshima was burnt to ashes by one nuclear bomb and people thought that nothing would grow for 75 years. However, sprouts sprung up from the remains of burnt trees and weeds came out of the ground. The trees that still live from the time of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima are called, Hibaku trees (A-bombed trees). This new life gave encouragement to the people who had lost hope. Since 2006, Riki Horiguchi, a tree doctor in Hiroshima, has provided me with seedlings and seeds of Round Leaf Holly, Persimmon, Chinaberry, Chinese Parasol, Japanese Hackberry, and Jujube. These seeds are the second or third generation of Hibaku Trees.　By sharing these seeds with people in the US and elsewh...