Wood Turning a Salty Species of Tree | inVASEive species
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ม.ค. 2025
- It's time for another episode of inVASEive species, this time one of the most frustrating invasives in my neck of the woods, the tamarisk.
These things are all over the rivers here in the west, just a real pain in the neck. So saddle up, watch while I take some tamarisk wood and turn it into another vase for our collection, and learn a little more about what's made this tree such a problem around here.
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The Mimosa. I I has one in my yard when I bought my house. At first I thought it was very pretty, until the next year, when small plants were coming up everywhere. I cut it down and killed the stump. 10 years later, I am still battling new Mimosa trees in my yard.
I'll second mimosa/albizia. They're really pretty. I know they're invasive in parts of the USA, but they're still a really cool tree.
Oh man, I love those
I use mimosa in my food forest as a chop and drop since it grows so fast I just keep cutting and feeding to the system
Reminds me of visiting a mangrove swamp once as a kid and getting to lick the mangrove leaves. Sure enough-- salty! (And thankfully not invasive.) I didn't know there were other plants that do it too, and in such a different habitat as well! Very cool :]
And that vase turned out gorgeous!! What a lovely color and fascinating shape
Interesting! When I lived in FL I saw a lot but never thought to lick one 😅
I’ve licked the salts off the mangroves in many parts of Australia even the colder places. I do get to go out more to those mangrove places when I was doing field ecology. For the context of this video series, some species of mangroves are considered invasive around the world including the ever cosmopolitan species Avicenna marina (grey mangroves). I’ve read it’s invasive in Hawaii.
I could totally invision you having your own early morning PBS show or something with this series and your cooking series. You put so much effort into the research, videography, and we always end up with a beautiful piece by the end and sometimes s delicious recipe. I hope you are doing better. We are all glad to see you back again.
Omg yes like Bob Ross
I love the reddish hue of the tree once the oil was applied!
Super interesting! I'd not heard about the tamarisk before, despite living in the American west. What's neat is how much the explanation reminded me of the Russian Olive, an invasive tree I'm much more familiar with. While the russian olive also tends to dominate near streams, it also handles other environments well enough to have been used as a wind break on farms all over. They're both the same class of noxious weed in Colorado, but the olive covers over twice as much territory, so I guess it's not surprising I'd be more familiar with it!
And I love the vase!
Yeah very similar types of invasive! Lots of overlap. I’ll definitely be doing a Russian olive episode soon
The vase kinda looks like a flower. Very unique and beautiful
Clover leaf came to my mind
I thought it kinda looked like a mushroom
Or mushroom! So cool
You took a tamaRISK with your creative choices making this vase and they paid off! Love the strong silhouette on this one and you did the trunk shape justice. Nice work
That is a gorgeous colour, and I've never heard about the tamarisk problem in the States. Eucalyptus might be an option for the next inVASEive episode, I know that it's a big contributor to the wildfires in California because of it's papery and often self-combusting bark. It's also a lovely red colour on the inside, not what I expected when I looked up the wood.
I understand that _Casuarina cunninghamiana_ (which I call "river she-oak", but you might call "Australian pine") is an invasive weed in Florida. The timber is very pretty - I have a couple of pieces of furniture made out of it - but I'm told that it is very hard on tools.
As a former Americorps member who worked along the San Juan River, I appreciate the shoutout.
Another fun tamarisk fact, perhaps something of a tall tale among corps members: the tree is also said to absorb an abnormal amount of minerals, causing chainsaw chains to spark or stop altogether when cutting larger specimens.
We have invasive Black Locust and Buckthorn in my corner of Wisconsin.
My scout troop volunteers for many brush cleanings between those and Garlic Mustard.
Wow that grain reveal was a shocker! The vase is really fun. It’s like a platform for a flower. It would be great to have that wide disk at the base of a vase as well.
Can I just say that hearing you pronounce "San Rafael Swell" correctly made my day. My family does a Thanksgiving ride every year, so I've grown up loving that place.
One of the reasons I love American Beech. The irregular shape and the grain when spindle turned looks like a cascading waterfall. Got a slightly orangish color and nice weight to it.
Love this idea. I spent three summers in the ycc removing invasives. You should try the Mimosa or Bush honeysuckle next if it tickles yur fancy!
This was a tree I truly knew nothing about. Great video!!!
And very nice to see your content again!! Missed you.
just wanted to say i hope you are doing well and i love your videos!
That turned out nicely. How about the Mimosa? Have you covered it before?
Very mushroomy, absolutely lovely vase.
That was a fun vase, and the color is beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Your videos always brighten my day. ❤🎉
when the title said salty i immediately knew it was going to be tamarisk. love this series !!! pls keep it up
I just got back from one of my favorite destinations to Santa Fe New Mexico and I paid a lot more attention to the native flora since I started watching your channel. I found some mountain mahoganies and thought of how that became your defining tree that sparked this channel and your passion. Anywho, I think your vases would look great on display or for sale in the Santa Fe area. Lots of artists sell their art there, and I feel like wooden art is underrepresented there. Cheers.
I can confirm that getting rid of these things is a nightmare from start to finish.
my jaw literally dropped when you put the oil on the finished vase! what an absolutely beautiful color/grain
That is an exquisite vase. Perfectly captured the unusual patterns in the grain. Please may we see it filled with wildflowers? One of our invasive species here in Texas is the Ash Juniper, I am trying it out for counter tops.
Absolutely stunning. I’d love to have a vase like that. Just beautiful.
This video is what helped my channel improve over sometime so nice vases. And great 5 minutes of a video.😊
Have you though of doing the melaleuca trees from the everglades? They are an invasive tree down in FL.
Vase came out great and the story was cool too
I'd never heard of tamarisk before! The finished vase reminds me of a baobab tree, and I love it. 😄
This is such a fun way to learn about trees
Hey Justin, just wanted to say I hope you are doing well and thank you for taking your time❤
So informative, could be a cake stand?! Australian Pine is invasive in the south. I’m not sure but I think its needles are designed to come down to harm competitor trees.
Welcome back dude, another quality addition to the family!
that might be my favourite piece of yours to date! it's got a great colour, and a cool shape. I like it!
I love this channel so much! I was so excited when I scrolled down through all the new subscription vids and saw this! I saved it for later thinking that will be an awesome little thing to look forward to later but I couldn’t resist in the end 😂❤❤❤
That wood is absolutely stunning! 😍 ❤❤ I’m in the UK and hadn’t even heard of this species! It’s now one of my favourites as it’s stunning! 😍 ❤❤❤
Another inVASeive you should do is the Chinaberry tree. it's an issue in the south east where I live and the history of how it got here, or the legend, is kind of funny.
What an informative video with a beautiful result in the end! Awesome
Wow, you never cease to amaze me with the pieces you make! I love that you decided to keep some of the natural shape. The bits at the top of the vase sort of remind me of reishi, or other banded shelf fungi. Which is fitting since you see them growing off of wood.
Ooh the next inVASEive could be the Siberian/Chinese elm!
Thank you for your work in highlighting invasive species!
Wow, that turned out really beautiful. I love how you're able to work with the material and let the shape of the vase kind of find itself through the work. The top has an almost fungal quality to it, vaguely The Last of Us-like, though less postapocalyptic 😂 I mostly tend to think simple shapes go best with complex/figured woods, but this is a clear exception to that rule.
Your videos both teach me about trees and teach how to turn trees. I'm going to start selling some of the stuff I've turned at a trade show each month.
Okay I take it all back. That is absolutely gorgeous!
Beautiful vase. I've seen some of those trees in my travels. Too bad they are so constructive, they are nice to look at.
Brought over from somewhere else goes/went wrong a lot.
Maybe you've heard of Kudzu or the Nutria. Both would die back in winter in their native countries. But the American South doesn't do winter and they went WILD. 😎
I love your videos! It’s such an interesting way to learn about trees and you make such cool stuff!
it's real chatoyancy hours
That honestly looks totally awesome. It looks like a shelf mushroom.
Love to learn about these invasives!! I recently moved to an apartment complex with a little strip of unmanaged woods behind it and I've been debating whether I want to try and control the english ivy in it or not.
English ivy can be killed by occlusion and occasionally cut backs so I'd go for it. I've also had luck introducing native to my area Golden ragwort to replace and help compete with the English ivy. Though make sure you check your area's natives and soil conditions before planting anything aggressive.
I think I may have just found a new favorite channel :). I don't know that it's invasive but Manzanita grows all over in the hills of CA and as far is I know, everyone who owns property near it, hates it. However, it's really beautiful, a very hard wood, and it's always nice to see it used by other woodworkers so that would be my suggestion for your next video.
Beautiful wood! Nice piece!
Your video and "history" remind me the book "The Monkey Wrench Gang", nice feeling, thank you for your work Justin !
One of your prettiest vases ever.
It kind of looks like an agate vase! I adore this series and learning about plants whilst watching your work.
this vase is my favourite looking one yet! it looks almost like a wooden flower itself and that natural shape wide lip of it or whatever you call it is just begging to be used as like, a sunglasses stand or something. That big crack down the side of it adds a lot to the character of it, that's a doorway vase if ive ever seen one. Demand all your visitors to look at it especially. xD Really neat piece!
What I remember of growing up around salt cedar is that grandma would pull off a switch to use on us kids when we were being brats. Not only did the switch hurt when it hit your legs, the salt made it sting until you could take a bath later.
That said, there was a salt cedar in the local park. After it rained, the salt could be seen on the top of the sand marking where the water trickled by. No grass grew around it so the sand was fun to play in.
Give the privet (Ligustrum lucidum) a go. Many privets are used as hedges and remain as so with regular trimming. For the volunteers that spread (robins and waxwings love the berries), they quickly grow into a tree like plant with extremely dense wood.
My favorite invasive tree by far is the Russian Olive! Yes they're thorny and obviously invasive, but you can't beat their sweet smell in the early summer.
I LOVE how the vase shape turned out!
Towards the end of the school year, my science classes had the opportunity to go down to the local delta and pull tamarisk plants. It was honestly really interesting and a cool opportunity.
Would love to see you turn a piece of Box Elder/Manitoba Maple. This tree is invasive in Ontario, Canada, and the wood can get bright red swirls in its grain if the tree was subject to stress. It's a sort of soft hardwood, so it's easy to work with, really gorgeous with the red flame in it, but it doesn't often get used because it's generally weaker.
gorgeous result!!
Oh that came out so beautiful
I was just thinking about your videos!!❤❤ that vase came out amazing!! Very funky. 🥰
Black locust next, please. :) The tamarisk looked good. It's much loved here in Greece, because it's the only tree that provides good shade on the beach! We just call it 'the salt tree' (almirikia).
Paulownia tomentosa aka Princess tree, empress tree, royal paulownia. It’s got really impressive large leaves and when in bloom some gorgeous purple flowers but it is invasive.
Also I’ve seen it mentioned but Albizia julibrissin aka Persian silk tree, pink silk tree, mimosa tree. Really unique pink wispy fluffy looking flowers and cool frond-like leaves but it does rapidly spread and disrupt native plants (and the dead blossoms are annoying and get everywhere)
Oh good you’re back!
Hope you’re doing ok!
I think you’ve done things with it before, but Russian Olive is another interesting invasive. It is everywhere in my part of Montana. It does have beautiful wood though, I made a spoon from some recently.
Back home in Israel, it's considered a native and protected species haha I didn't even know it was salty, or that it was introduced in the US. It's called Eshell in Hebrew, and is even mention in the Bible. When you said salty bush I thought of a different tree that we have there, that's considered a trail snack for some haha
It's the Saltbush or latin name Atriplex. We call it Maluach which literally translates to Salty 😂
I just love trees! Thank you for starting this passion for me and I believe many others 🙏☺️
Also the vase turned out stunning! ❤😮
I recommend profiling the Chinaberry (Melia azedarach), and Glossy Privet (Ligustrum lucidum); both species are a problem in Central Texas riparian areas. A Texas native "invasive" is the Ashe Juniper, which moves in when competitive biodiversity, fire, and bison are eliminated. There is no 'cedar' that smells finer, so here's an excuse to work some
Thanks for the video, I learned a few things. Keep it up.
The thumbnail made me think you were playing a recorder that you had made, and I got so excited!!!
I have a beautiful late-medieval model tenor recorder built by a German maker out of Canadian maple, aka acer saccharum, aka sugar maple 🍁
Make me an alto? 😉 Mine got stolen just before Xmas after a gig 😢
I’ll pay you in gallons upon gallons of maple syrup!!! 😂 thanks for all your wonderful content ❤❤❤
I suggest Norway maple next!
You should use the vase for a candle holder. Neat shape!
White mulberry! they're one of the few invasive trees I can think of that primarily spreads through seed!
Justin!!! ❤
This is my favorite vase
Any tree is invasive if it's plant in the right place :)
Please do common buckthorn
You should do the bush honeysuckle! It's truly a nightmare now much it's spread up here in the midwest (and other places too)
Russian Olive is an invasive tree here in southern Idaho. I think it might be tough to get any usable wood since it's often more shrubby like than as a tree.
plenty of people have commented mimosa and I agree! I feel so emotional about mimosa in particular because in my childhood memories visiting my grandparents in China, I loved seeing fluffy pink mimosa flowers, but they're destructive in the US
It'll be impossible to turn but are you going to talk about the tumbleweed ?
I’m bullish on doing a tumbleweed vase
@@Justinthetrees like to see you do one
Can you make a empress tree vase, they are a major problem in the Maryland and Virginia area, bonus points if you can include the famous ornate flowers in the vase somehow
I really love your videos!
I'll mention Rhododendron ponticum, invasive over here in Scotland and I believe in some areas over the pond too
yippie! new video!
How about Siberian Elm.
Buckthorn please! Beyond a nuisance where I grew up. They choked out any small native trees trying to grow and made the ugliest dead stands of black, twisted, thorny evil.
Privet! It tends to invade riparian areas in the eastern US as it appears tamarisk is out west.
Nice one! Another 2-3 million vases, and we’ll be on the right track 😂
Can’t wait for eucalyptus trees. Why is that most of the invasive trees in the south west were introduced by the railroads?
We have 2 of those on my mom's property. I think they're about 70 to 80 years old, maybe older, because they are HUGE.
these are the best videos coming from shorts
Perfect thumbnail
That is beautiful wood! Make a market for it, and it will disappear! But seriously, that is cool and funky. ❤
Suggestion: Russian Olive, Norway Maple
Fun time!
Honeysuckle.!
Welcome back! Hope you’re doing ok (:
Have you ever worked with Pepperwood?