Bonsaify | Clip and Grow is the Way to Go with Yaupon Holly PLUS a Tea Tease!

[@wreagin1]

As a teapot maker that also makes bonsai/ bonsai pots this video makes me really happy. Thanks as always!

[@Bonsaify]

Hi Mark, do you have a website of your pottery?

[@therisingofroninbonsai]

Love small mini bonsai. Easy to carrying ... bit need more to care.. hi hi hi

[@northascrowsfly]

The scar on your left hand makes me wonder what epic bonsai battle you survived. 🌿😁

[@Bonsaify]

Lol. Well, that's actually from me carving a blob of wax in 3rd grade. If you can believe it, my teacher at the time handed us sharp chisels and never thought to tell use about not cutting ourselves. No such thing as kevlar gloves at the time and I ended up cutting myself not once, but twice. And the second time I ended up getting about 5-6 stitches. What's more, since I lived in the middle of bum-f**k nowhere, the doctor who did the repair wasn't very good at that type of thing, leaving me with a much larger scar than would probably formed given proper aftercare. But se la vie. It's a good story, but I've learned since that half of your concentration while using sharp knives should be on where the rest of your body is placed. And, using sharp knives for carving wood, bonsai and other things is perfectly safe once you learn how to control them with your hand, rather than trying to use your bicep.

[@potreliefbonsaibatu5035]

Wew 😉brew tea full👍💚☕🍵

[@Bonsaify]

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[@bonsaibaby8257]

I love that tree!

[@Dylan-ok6ft]

I just discovered Yaupon holly recently as another tea similar to Yerba Mate (a South American holly). It’s great! Can’t wait to try growing them as Bonsai

[@borismaiorov3358]

Ilex paraguariensis.

[@henzobonsai]

Awesome 👍

[@snakejumper3277]

My granddaughter & I have two of these ready to Bonsaify. She is hoping they'll look like little apple trees when the berries are on them. We usually see berries in the winter.

[@Bonsaify]

Oh, now I need to order some seed and get some females going....all mine are male.

[@questionablecooking7019]

The yh's I have are just about indestructible, very forgiving of my learning curve ... would you treat these similar to ficus where you repot later in season when it's warm ?

[@Bonsaify]

Interesting idea. I have not tried that. I've been repotting them during late winter. I'll give it a try to see.

[@andywesselsphotographyart]

Very much a beginner .... found a nice little tree in one of the local nurseries here in South Carolina which turned out to be a Yaupon Holly. Haven't done too much with it yet, but was excited to find this video as it is giving me some ideas. The leaves on my tree appear to be a lot smaller than the ones in this video. Any thoughts?

[@Bonsaify]

Leaf size will vary depending on the growing conditions and number of leaves on the tree. There are also named cultivars of the species, but none that I have seen that are particularly noteworthy.

[@andywesselsphotographyart]

Thanks for the response. I went back to some photos I took at the nursery and saw on a label (that did not come with the "tree" itself..... which I got for $4 as it was a little neglected) that it was actually a Bordeaux (Dwarf) Yaupon Holly.....Cheers @@Bonsaify

[@ryanashby2459]

I just this discovered this little holly today. Can these be kept inside similar to a Ficus or Fukien?

[@Bonsaify]

TBH not sure. They are native to south eastern US, so it's possible. Give it a try!

[@borismaiorov3358]

Ilex paraguariensis is the yerba mate tree. It grows in the north of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. Is this ilex also tropical?

[@Bonsaify]

Not tropical, but close. They are native to the southwest US, so definitely warm, but they tolerate freezing also.

[@liquidxskin19]

Between Zelkova and Holly which grows faster?

[@Bonsaify]

Zelkova can grow 5 feet in a year. Easily faster than the happiest ilex.

[@9daywonda]

They do say that the best tea is white (at least according to the Chinese that is)???

[@Bonsaify]

Dunno what this green tea is equivalent to, but it's quite mild.

[@9daywonda]

In a way not unlike your bonsai tutorials?

[@laurencebaumgartner7654]

Pouvez vous donner le nom en latin, merci pour vos vidéos

[@Bonsaify]

Ilex vomitoria

[@zonnig46]

Are you sure you can drink this tea ? This plant is called Vomitoria !

[@Bonsaify]

Lol, yeah that doesn't help with marketing. But, as with many botanical names, the designation has some back story.... Here is an excerpt from this page: www.herbalgram.org/resources/herbalgram/issues/109/table-of-contents/hg109-feat-yaupon/ Although high concentrations of caffeine may cause vomiting, research by Fuller et al. reveals no other properties of yaupon tea that would have an emetic effect.7 The confusion about yaupon being an emetic seems to have originated when English naturalist Mark Catesby called it an “emetick broth” in the 1700s.8 However, in 1564, French explorers visiting the east coast of Florida made observations and illustrations of the Timucua people, who were later depicted in a series of engravings, including one showing a group of men drinking from shell cups and vomiting.9 Maude Grieve, in A Modern Herbal, also writes that yaupon has emetic properties,10 although the leaves are not generally considered to have such activity.**

[@snakejumper3277]

Early English traders in the Southeast noted that the Natives drank the tea & deliberately disgorged it as a means of acquiring ritual purity before considering important matters. Some thought it was an emetic, hence the unfortunate name, Vomitoria.

[@danparish1344]

They also drank it daily though too, with evidence it was traded all around North America despite only growing in the south