Creating a Desert Rose Bonsai Forest, The Bonsai Zone, March 2022 

One of the things I love the most about your channel is that you're not afraid to try out new species and innovate with different ideas. Traditional bonsai techniques and styles are nice, but it gets monotonous if that's the only thing you do. Nice work!

Nigel, you’re going to need a bigger greenhouse soon if you keep growing all these tropicals! But they do look good.

A masterclass in creating a forest landscape! Thank you Nigel! 🙏😍

Just when I thought I’d seen it all with Landscapes and Penjings Nigel delivers something totally unique. Absolutely amazing. Thanks, keep growing

That Socotra landscape is AMAZING, Nigel! I really love it! And I can’t wait to see your second island, with the jade dragon blood trees! It will be fun to see how those evolve over the years under your care!

Looks very authentic Socotra landscape. Will be magnificent when in blooom ❤️ Now only to paint the mini-figure!

The Adenium forest looks good, can't wait to see it in the future when it flowers.

Excellent choice of music for this Beautiful "National Geographic Quality" tour :)

Nigel that is drop dead gorgeous. It’s amazing that you created that in 1 day. The only thing I feel my eye is drawn to the stark whiteness of the photographer. If he were done in a light gray or light green he or she would blend better into the composition.thanks again for sharing your beautiful work

Love the composition!

I've falling in love with adeniums since past 1 year I spend hours and hours with them

Can't wait to see your updates on this!

Woow it so very nice and beautiful. I have a lot of this flowers I love it

Making these scenes is like playing in dollhouse. Fun and calming.

I love the idea of created a mini landscape with desert roses. We will have to give it a try.

Wow super good, love it 🥰🤗😊❤️

Socotra has incredibly unique plants. Frickin love that place.

hi, i am crazy Adenium lover, this project is more interesting for me

This is one super fantastic landscaping!!! Landscape 101 with Bonsai Master Saunders.

Omg the wonders of the Creator are truly astonishing! I’ve been interested in these plants for years. I’ll enjoy watching yours grow.

Turned out wonderful…..love the island feel ….thanks for sharing your great imagination

Sekilas seperti bentuk aslinya hanya dirubah menjadi bonsai minimalis. Sungguh luar biasa 👍 Terima kasih sudah berbagi ilmunya ♥️♥️👍

The windswept trees are awesome!

Your eye for composition is so trained and experienced! Every time I can't see your vision until the very end when it all comes together so perfectly! This will be a favorite of your work for sure!

AMAZING.....❤

This is absolutely fantastic, and I look forward to seeing its growth!

Thanks, Nigel!

Complimenti veramente un bel lavoro, fatto bene, proverò a replicare qualcosa di simile anche se sono alle prime armi nel mondo del bonsai, di ritorno dalle vacanze alle Canarie ho comprato delle bellissime piantine di rosa del deserto, grazie mille per i tuoi consigli e saluti dall'Italia.

Phenomenal Soccotra pics!!! That is inspiring! Thanks!

Wonderful to see another option to the twisted pine. Your forest may encourage many to try something new. Great work.

COOL!!!!

Wow...so freaking cool.

My word!!! Those are massive!!

Great video.

I wish my local nursery had those things. Those are neat. I like thick trunk succulents.

Curious trees these are. I like them...

Wah...👌👌👌

Beautiful

Great. job.😊

We need a desert rose update this spring

Bautiful. Inspiration idea... thanks nigel...

Fantastic!! I'm spellbound with your idea.❤❤❤

That’s a nice landscape and beautiful island... I found a pot on the street and purchased a dessert rose this May similar to the ones you have there in small pots from a convenience store. After some growth and pruning and fertilizer it’s looking awesome, but no flowers yet. I water a couple teaspoons every few days, so it is always both wet and dry, it likes it.

Very cool planting! Can’t wait to see it as it grows out.

Excellent landscape.

I was very excited to see this project and I am not disappointed. It's fantastic!

Loved the montage. The music was beautiful!

i freaking LOVE your Socotra Island! and ironically, my beautiful mature adenium rotted out just the other day. i barely watered it, but it just retained too much of the water. so i watched your work on this planting with a mixture of both envy and glee! well done, Nigel.

Turned out beautiful, Nigel! 👍

Its about time you gave us an update on your Adenium Socotra Island landscape isn't it Nigel.....please!

This is a fascinating video. I love your plants!

Hi Nigel. Great to see you and your channel back again. Your rocks look like Seiryu Stone, the one aquascapers use in planted aquariums. Really nice planting, inspired me to buy some Adenium seeds.

Ufff, Nigel, I worked and lived in the states but retired to Medellin (City of Eternal Spring). Watching you deal with all the snow there gives me nightmares. jejeje but your lessons outweigh the horror of snow!!!

So much yes!

This is my new favourite from your collection. I absolutely love it! 😍

Quite remarkable Nigel. Awesome - as everyone has said. I do have reservations about the photographer...

Inspiration work Nigel ,thanks for sharing

Nice good 👌👍♥️🥰

This is wonderful. I feel you certainly captured the Socotra Island vibe. I really enjoy learning about how you do your landscapes. Thank you for the post.

Really like this planting

Nigel, you can add one more tree with the last tiny one...then it will look better 👍 ...i think 🤔

Excellent start, you have such a good eye for compositions

I have started Desert Rose from seed this winter. They are not growing very rapidly yet, but I am thinking they will take off when spring gets here. Thanks for another great video.

Wow😍 Waching your video give me lot of inspiration😊

That turned out really nice. I like it

Super cool. Love it! Anson.

Sieht super schön aus Nigel. Ich liebe Desert Roses. Ich habe auch welche,leider nicht soviel Platz. Tolles Video.

Looks good! Very authentic :)

Amazing alien looking plants

It came out so good!

Genius👏beautiful Nigel

Your most exciting group planting. I realize how you don't need to travel much as you make the world come to you. That's a concept worth selling to a wider public.

Gorgeous desert landscape - outstanding interpretation....

Dang they get that big in the wild

Love the Socotra Island landscape!!! Love the caudiciforms there, like people guarding the Island. Warm outside? LOL Love that other bonsai mountain stream . Wow!!! Beautiful Socotra Island arrangement. how do you keep the Adenium small?

Like Matt said elsewhere in the comments: “keep growing” 😁🙏

I feel so tempted to try my own take on this

Had to laught, Fairly warm out today ( meanwhile snow and ice everywhere 🥶🥶)) 🤣🤣

at least the gravel wasn't frozen!

I love it! The only thing that doesn’t look that good is the photographer, maybe you should paint it a little bit with cream and brown colors so it would look more as part of the landscape. Otherwise, it’s beautiful!

Absolutely fantastic! I most certainly learned a thing or two here!

Nigel, Adeniums will get wrinkly and feel soft when they are dehydrated. Good luck with growing them. They are a total different monster than trees. Which I am sure you already know.

Your forest arrangements are always exceptional!

Great composition. I've had mediocre luck with desert rose, also nobody has them in Calgary on a regular basis so super harf to get. I hope yours do well. Take care Nigel

BTW thanks to you I also made a larch forest xD

Very cool!

Cool man very cool🙂

I wonder how old those addenium are in the real island?

The recommendation of the ficus book was wonderful. Thank you.

What a beautiful landscape you're very talented man. Thank you for sharing

This planting is a huge WOW Nigel! I love it so much, and I can't wait to follow its progress! It is stunning! Love the music you used too! Perfect! Thank you! Lisa

Well done Nigel, this looks amazing!

Wow, great result 👏 👍 👌 unfortunately lost the bottom 3/4 of one of my Adeniums to rot, despite carving out and spraying tons of anti-fungal. Next time I'll just leave it out of any soil to dry up properly

I've been waiting for you to do this one for sooo long! It looks really nice already, but I can already see the future potential there too. They will look great in a few years

Very nice. Loved the Caravans theme music

I never knew that U put the biggest tree at the front that's some cool shit I'm Gunna try a forest or something similar now cheers central coast Australia

You so inspire me. I have three varigated Portulacaria Afra bonsai trees that I have placed near a west facing window and they are doing great. I have had them over a year and they look so beautiful. You were my inspiration to try them. I'm glad I did.

So fascinating to see it brought to life. Wonderful job.

Mantap👍👍👍

By the way, I found some pre-made bonsai soil prefect for just about anything if you want the brands name. My adeniums love it, cacti love it, ficus love it, I think it's a pretty well all around balanced soil for just about any zone.