In this video Corin works with some garden centre brought Blue Cedar trees, he sets up the trees for their future as bonsai with an initial styling. Please LIKE & SUBSCRIBE Website - www.bonsai.co.uk
Corin, you and Peter Chan are the only ones I watch on youtube. You two have helped me tremendously in my hobby. You are a true artist with a great sense of scale and proportion without a hint of being pretentious. Thank you for your efforts and I wish you all the success you deserve.
Corin, you never cease to amaze me. I thoroughly enjoy when i have 30 or 40 mins with a coffee to just watch you work. Really not much more to say today than that. Thanks
@@lump88 -a yeti? Like as in bigfoot? I don't get it? Bigfoot when he's not roaming the woods photobombing on people who use potato's as cameras he freelances as a barista and master of the long lasting fine brew? I'm just playing dude. Though I really don't get how a yeti fits in.
In the Netherlands these trees are not often used as bonsai material, but now that I have seen this. I can't wait to buy one myself to make it into a beautiful bonsai
I love Corin's eye for trees -h e sees such simple, elegant, and beautiful 'solutions' or designs. Thank you for explaining your thinking so clearly, you are a real talent when it comes to teaching.
Another nice demonstration Corin, seeing you take a garden centre fined and producing something that has a good basis for the future is inspiring thank you.
I like it when they do it for the long term health and growth and styling of the tree.. and can still look cool and have a general bonsai look. But don't much like the trend of all the "magic demos" of finding a really nice prebonsai stock...often collected or grown and trained for bonsai.... and getting some big shot to come in and transform it into a "finished" tree in an hour or whatever. And do everything to it that should be done slowly over many many years even all the jinning and carving and lime sulphering etc so as to get there before and after shots for their website or whatever. Basically with the goal of showing off and making themselves look good and their profile... not the tree. And beginners see and think that's normal and mimick it. But don't tell them that they've just killed that nice tree and fine potential bonsai stock and that the vast majority of those are sacrifice trees that are discarded after. Idk just don't seem right to me. This guy seems to do it pretty good though .
Brilliant! Just brilliant! I took a 50 minute journey down to your place yesterday, your brother was most helpful and informative, the intention was to purchase a gift for my parents, well! I ended up buying a Bonsai for my parents and one for myself😊 I think I have found a new hobby. P.S. love the videos, very informative and well presented.
Appreciate this training vid using nursery stock, your narration through the branch selection and the detail wiring ~particularly the apex~ plus your commentary on the (2) trees. Thank you.
Brilliant... Loved this tutorial! Going to have to keep an eye out for one of those cedars at my local nursery. I love working with larch but never tried a cedar. You've inspired me to have a go! Love all your videos by the way
Fantastic work saving these Blue Cedars. Loved the manner you changed the structure of the trees and I can see they will grow into beautiful bonsai specimens. A very good lecture especially removing all the top useless soil and mess, opening up the top and keeping the roots undisturbed, by doing this, the tree will not be into too much shock. I prefer the bigger specimens they are more resilient to getting hard pruned. The video was most enjoyable and encouraging to also try our hand. I would like to see a professional Bonsai Grower close should I loose nerve he/she can rescue my attempt, it must e quite daunting giving it a go for the first time.
it is impossible for me to make a bonsai from this tree because it does not grow in our place. but the idea and mindset of making this bonsai can be used to make bonsai from other trees. Thank you for sharing ..
Living in the high mountains of Arizona I'm enthralled with trees as they are mainly Ponderosa Pine. I'm constantly looking them and the Alligator Juniper. You're amazing in you concepts of a dwarf tree.
Yet Another fantastic educational video from relatively cheap garden centre material, it’s amazing how easy you make it look, never ceases to amaze me how much more expensive they appear at the end of the demonstration 😜 and what can I say that bench is stunning 🤩
One of my favourite trees, they look stunning when mature. Got a street near where I live with around ten fully mature trees growing. Great vlog, love the concept of seeing the whole raw material start to wired and shaped finished starter bonsai.
This is the first of your videos I've watched. I have subscribed as well. I am only beginning bonsai so I haven't actually done a tree yet, but I've learned a lot from you today and I look forward to watching more. Thank you.
@@greenwoodbonsaistudio Hi, it's Kate from Shetland again. I just wanted to ask if you sell young trees which can be kept to grow until they are ready to be made into bonsai. I have planted a few trees by seed but of course they will take some time to grow even a small amount. At the end of the first week in June I plan to buy a few trees. I'd like to buy from you because I feel your enthusiasm and professionalism is so impressive. Do you have some young trees for this purpose? PS I used to live and work in Nottingham!
Nice video. I like your style of making a video and the way you work with trees. Blue cedar I am thinking about it. Buying one I mean. Of course a like👍👍
Hi corin I wish I had just 10% of your experience you amaze me every time you do work on a tree . I guess I started to late I am 56 now but way back in the eighties I did try bonsai but there was not a lot of information about those days and gave it up .thanks to you and many others I can now get the information I need .I will have to make a trip one day and see your amazing nursery.thanks for sharing your knowledge..
Thank you Corin for giving your time and sharing your expertise. The learning curve in bonsai is ever expanding, in others words, none of us, from beginners to experts will never stop learning. Love all your videos as many others do too . . . Keep up the good work.
this was awesome. I just picked up two of the most insane wayward cedars from a nursery that had been neglected in the back corner of the nursery, with crazy fat winding trunks and random mishmash branches everywhere, I they were both quite large too one was 5 feet tall the other around 4 feet tall. So this vid is perfect and gives me some ideas for how to go about starting on them.
I bought a blue cedar in June this year, like you said they are often lanky, I managed to find one with a bit more growth near the bottom and cut the top part off. It shows all new growth now on the existing branches.
Watching your decision making skills is very enlightening. Cutting of those thick branches and then the top made a huge difference in the overall appearance immediately. I like seeing you work because it gives others the confidence to try it.
do appreciate these video went to a fair few or your dads demos in the past at events and at greenwood years ago..do like how you explain clearly what your about to do and show the results thank you..... will be there in spring to get a larger pot as a tree 43 years old bought from greenwood back in the day when your mum sold heathers is getting too big for the pot it is in.
