I'm Nigel Saunders and this channel is all about creating living miniature trees. Most of the work I do is "clip and grow" in a "realistic" style. I am trying to create miniature versions of trees found in nature. I will be posting movies of local bonsai shows and educational videos on the art of bonsai. I am from Southwestern Ontario, Canada. I have been growing trees since 1993 and belong to the Kitchener-Waterloo Bonsai Society and the Toronto Bonsai Society. Check out the clubs on Facebook, and for information on our club meetings. See the links below. Be sure to check out the playlists for individual tree progression, and also for bonsai shows and tree documentaries! Thanks for watching, Nigel
That surely were some quite painful decisions to make - I was also watching anxiously - but I'm sure in a few years you'll be happy to have made these decisions. Beautiful tree!
Greetings from South Australia Nigel. We have the same problem with that creeping oxalis on this side of the world, and it is such a nuisance, once you've got it it's a never-ending job to eradicate it. I'm enjoying your videos ,cheers from down under .
I hope the nightshade vine will recover and you'll get some good back-budding in the right places! The Wisteria really shot up high. Good to see it growing well.
A weeping willow never dies truly, unless infected by a parasite. I grow up with generation after generation of loggers and I used to log to and I’ve seen some Willows looking bad, but they somehow always produce new offspring and their same old drunk that died away.
Maybe you can find the way to outlive those trees & even meet the souls in their memorial tombs ? John chapter 5, verses 28 - 29 .🙏 ( regards from england for the Bonsia Zone )
Unfortunately, you will never be able to make decent bonsai without wiring. It's such a huge part of bonsai styling. It's like not watering the tree hoping that it will rain.....
I think Nigel's clip-and-grow technique is a nice alternative to the unnatural manipulation with wires. There is room for more than one style of bonsai in the world and whether it is "decent" or not is really in the eye of the beholder.
Lingnan bonsai styled with clip and grow only are considered some of the best bonsai in the world. To say a decent bonsai cannot be styled without wire seems to contradict this? I find it strange that you are insulting me and trees that I have developed. Maybe it's time you think about yourself and what kind of person you want to be? Maybe you have never watched the channel and your comment is based on ignorance? Maybe you are a frustrated person and are just taking it out on someone else? Anyway, keep wiring your trees and create "bonsai looking" plant art, and I'll keep working away on mine, trying to create excellent looking miniature trees!
What a great video, nigel! Perfect executed pruning on the ficus and very interesting to see the thjua on the graveyard. I have so many thuja on the go . So full grown trees is fun! I thought the bark was smoothing out on them as they where older
It's interesting looking at the bark on Thuja trees! So many trees have different bark as they age, I think they go from smooth to rough as they get ancient!
I found a little mini Crown of Thorns yesterday at a local nursery and I bought it! First time I’ve seen one, not that I’ve been looking for one but I thought of yours when I saw it and just had to buy it😅 It’s only about 10cm high but it was only about $3😁
Seeing the thermometer I always wonder how you're not sweating (much) with almost 40°C, especially with all the humidity due to the plant's watering. Anyway, the ficus looks MUCH better now that you shortened it! I think the height of it is perfect, can't wait until the shoots widen the canopy
Thanks so much, it does get hot in the greenhouse mid afternoon. I drink lots of water and you get used to the heat and humidity as summer progresses!! The Ficus should look good once it fills out again, at least I hope so!!!
Lots of BIG CUTS came up today! Have you considered other possible fronts? The “healing side”, and angles around it, offer other very interesting and pleasing possibilities for fronts, to my amateur, untrained and experienced eye. The sphere shaped bulge in the front doesn’t appeal to me and the healing side seems to have better flow to it. Very BOLD cuts and styling today. Agree with you, all for the better. Thanks.🪴🪴🪴
You are my idol in bonsai! You are so much more casual than all other bonsai masters on youtube, and i love that! Thats how I've learned so much from you in the last 2 years even as someone in their late teens! Your frequent posting also posts a smile on my face too!
I do love videos from Nigel, especially that he works on smaller trees that are not just the common bonsai species everyone else shows even though I do have a thing for Japanese maple trees myself Nigel is fantastic for details, I would also suggest Herons Bonsai, Peter is one of the best for confidence when it comes to rough pruning for basic shape and making more trees from the ones you have and Bonsai Mirai for getting into the nuts and bolts of it all Between these 3 they cover everything a person could ever need to know in ways that are easy to understand
It tends to have a moderating effect, evening out the changes in temperature from night to day. In the daytime, it tends to add 10 C to the outside temperature. At night it slows down the cooling, but it eventually reaches the outside temperature after about 1 hour.
As I start viewing your video's again, I just realized that this is the first specimen tree in your collection of videos...No wonder I have admired it for such a long time, it was the first one you worked on for the KW Bonsai channel...It looked stunning even way back then...Always brings a smile to my face...Thanks again...
Cars leave me cold, but doing something with your child that you are both passionate about is priceless. I go to Folk Festivals with 2 of mine, and they are the best weekends of the year, bar none!
Is that GT3 RS custom or does it come that way originally? Been too long since I've been really into cars (around 2010 I guess) so I'm not up to date about specific design details as I used to be. Was fun watching it and took me back around 15 years, thanks Nigel!
@@TheBonsaiZone 3 speeding tickets within the first 6 months of owning it..😄 the early RX-7 looked like the old Dotson 280Z. Mazda redesigned them to be closer to Porsche in later years.
That was so cool!! Some unique mazdas, that old porsche, a custom brat, oh and that old chevy was a treat. Ive met very few people who had a passion for both cars and bonsai, but for those who are passionate about the vehicle they own, the two are actually very similar hobbies in my opinion. Thanks for sharing that nigel!
Hiya, i think the flowering tree is some sort of Hydrangea, the usually flower at this time of year. Thanks for the updates! The PA forest looks awesome 💚💚💚
