Late Summer Jobs Around Herons Bonsai 

On the topic of lockdown mental health... I found taking care of plants and trees has kept my mental health well during lockdown thus far, i started growing trees to make in to bonsai with a couple of other plants (which is partly thanks to Peter and his videos) and i have struggled with depression in the past and having to get up every morning and open the curtains for the plants and trees forces me to not stay in bed all morning and keep my curtains closed all day and wallow in self pity or depression. Knowing i must get up and water and make sure they get enough light and warmth aswel as learning how to take care of them as they grow to becoming bonsai gives me all the mental stimulation and inner happiness that i need during these testing times. Again thanks Peter and the team for inspiring people like me to learn something new and growing the love for gardening by making charming and informative videos for free.

How awesome would that be to have all those trees to play with at your fingertips!!!! Peter has the best job in the world!!

I'm sure youre aware of this, but those large callouses are worth a lot of money to wood workers. Perfect material for violins, cellos, guitars and other instruments. If a big tree with a large callous happens to die, you should try and sell it, or use it yourself, they also make beautiful bowls or bonsai pots.

Week 42 of Sunday breakfast with Peter I love the variety when you treat us with this type of video. As always stay safe and well as we endure this forth coming lockdown.

I adore Peter. He says, “mildew”, the way Ze Frank would, and that makes me so happy. 🥰

Nice blue sky overhead for the show around! 😊

Late summer!! We have snow!!! Ugh you people and your warm places! Send some of that summer here

"In bonsai we learn to be patient" - now there's a lesson I'm hoping to learn from bonsai!

Peter in the woods! Wonderful!

Good thing you get so much rain there. Even though my location is not very dry we still need to water potted plants almost every day.

Beside all the amazing trees, you can see a man do what he loves. I mean for example 46:20 - 47:00, that's pure joy right there on Peter's face. :)

I would love to work at your nursery . Great people and trees

No one could accuse Peter Chan of lacking passion.

You certainly are not lazy, nor are you a fool! You have so much advice, experience, the how-to to share; thank-you for sharing with us. Bless you and all those there.

Love seeing peters summer wardrobe

Those crab apple fruits look so yummy!

Wow, this video was just packed full of content....loved it! Can't wait to see you work on all those items you pulled out. Thanks so much, Peter. For those of us who are stuck inside you are an inspiration and a chance to live vicariously!

👍 can't go wrong with a Maple...love them, colors amazing...its like the el Dorado of 🍁 maples

We do not think you are crazy, we know you are an inspired GENIUS !

Woohoo.. Surely we would love to help prune and all when we can Peter.. beautiful trees, what a lucky guy indeed. Thx for sharing..cheers.

I've been growing this for 25 years. *throws tree* I love it lol

summer, we are halfway to spring haha !

Thank you for sharing those gorgeous plants,it really gives positive vibes! Happy gardening watching from Japan🌹💕☕️☕️😊🤩👍🏻🌿

Thank you ever so much for bringing bonsai and nature into my evening. Your video brings much joy to a student during exam preparations!

8:53 "Just let me put it down gently here" 😅👌🏻

Peter, I think I'm in love with your nursery.

Peter is a Bonsai Superman. I am watching these videos because I am so stressed about the U.S. election, although I live in Canada.

I can't believe you can dig that large tree in August!! My weather in the U.S. is hot during this time also.

Love the shirt, Peter! (and the amazing advice and wisdom, of course!)

I can tell you take great care of your plants. They look so happy and healthy

The view @29:23 triggers my trypophobia in the most interesting way. I love it!!!

The maple that u was working its nice to this Hallowing day, It has a terrorific wind.

“Many people think I’m lazy or a fool, but I don’t think I’m quite that” No Peter, you are neither lazy nor a fool, but you are adorable! 😂

Wow oh my word, herons is absolutely full of hidden gems, wish I lived near then I could visit, maybe one day 👍🏻👍🏻

I'll keep my eyes peeled for the sale or a volunteer day. One day I'll get the pleasure of visiting that beautiful place. In the meantime I'll have the joy of watching the seeds you sent me so promptly. Hinoki Cypress is the first tree I bought for myself.

Pinch, prune, first Peter of the month. Peter needs a go pro and head mount so we can have PPOV (Peter's point of view) cam

素晴らしくてゴージャス! beautiful garden and beautiful all trees ... healthy& growing well because you care them with love& heart, Sir. Waiting for “ハゼの木“ upload Sir.. thank you. 🥰

Sorry, I kept looking video: AMAZING AND CURIOUS SNAKE ROOT!!! :-O

Wait till the end for Mr. Peter to go back to the willow and I think he run out of time,hopefully next video with the hinoki. Thanks Mr. Peter!!! And yes you’re right I can send you my right arm if you send me one/any of those lovely maples

I wish covid would be over already so i can fly to Europe and help you tame the wild trees 😢 Great work Peter, as always

I enjoyed the video. Some exciting looking raw material. As you have shown the pruning need not take too long. It's the tidying up afterwards I find a chore. I hope there are not too many only left armed people buying the trees. I have tried, successfully growing Shindeshojo airlayers following you earlier videos. Such a fun way to get new trees. Keep up the good work.

Some serious stuff for sure

48 minutes very well spent watching this amazing video. You are an inspiration sir i love watching you in your garden and listening to your passion for Bonsai and nature. Thank you.

Thanks Peter. I have a shohin Antarctic Beech. Lovely tree for bonsai, small dark green leaves turning a beautiful bronze colour in the Autumn. The bark is nice as well. Still got a way to go before its anywhere near good though. It didn't like the hot spring and summer either.

Thank you.... 🙏 😔 🙏 Dr. Chan your works are so educational and so inspiring, how could one be bored. Thank you for showing arround. It is so amazing the variety of trees that you have. I must tease a little about the temperatures that you guys call hot. 30 degrees is beautiful weather, we don't even think it is warm until we reach 39 to 40 C (101 F). Well that is dependant on the relative humidity. If The Gulf decides to favor us with too much moisturizer that nice temperatures can change quite readily. Now, to serious matters, I had been seeing the greenhouse where you have the Maples that get mildew easily, but I had noticed, the greenhouse is quite closed off. If you can move the plants that are getting mildew to a shade area that is more open, where there is a slight beeze, this will dry the leaves quickly after watering. It might increase the water demand of the trees some, but the open and breezy area will do two things, lower the humidity, yes, but the water droplets will not stay on the leaves as long. Down here on The Gulf coast there is an eternal battle with mold and mildew. You cannot change the humidity, but you can allow the wind to air dry things, as much as possible. 🌮🙏🖖🙏😔🙏🙏🙏

I would recommend Green Cure in a foliar spray for the powdery mildew. It's used alot in the cannabis industry to prevent that exact issue. A can also use baking soda in replacement.

I love the big tree cut-backs, I would consider them a "project". I've had zero luck growing out any maple seeds and finally gave up after losing a few hundred dollars on seeds, now I just buy seedlings or big plants and cut them back. I did recently get 50 maple seedlings (gone dormant) and they had fantastic root systems on them, even just being about 6-8 inches in length. If I were there, I'd be following you around and picking up all the cuttings to try and "stick" with rooting powder! Your cut-offs would be my treasure! :)

Nice tour through the "jungle". Thanks, Peter!

Thank you Peter Sir. We are blessed by your channel. You never know how much we viewers learned and appreciated your videos. God bless you more. Love you

So many Wonderful projects you have! Thank you for the tour !

SALUDOS FROM SPAIN, MY FRIEND.

Thank you for the great video. Wish I was in England I would certainly buy 2 of those lime trees.

6:30 I had success with getting roots to grow faster by re cutting the callus. The two sides had almost grown back together, so it seemed like my only option. It's possible that the callus there is healing cambium (phloem), as opposed to adventitous rooting (xylem), different sides of the cambium. It should look like cauliflower for roots. This process is hormone dependant, so slow growing varieties are going to take longer. Lifting up a skirt of bark/cambium could possibly give it more incentive to form callus from the xylem side. Good luck! 🏅

Lime tree harakiri ;-) i love your videos

38:35 is gold

Sycamore Surprise Bonsai! :) I look forward to seeing how that one will turn out!

Excellent video Mr. Chan, I hope to one day visit when this craziness is over :)

I really love your videos! Thanks a lot for sharing!😊👍

good job

Peter, you should grow a tamarind bonsai. They’re very good for bonsai.

Such a good video, thanks Peter

min.46.10 The german name of tilia cordata is "(Winter)Linde". Bless u xx

All these beautiful trees, very inspiring.

Teasing us with that weeping willow peter! I got excited when you pulled it out☺️

Another great lesson from the master. Thank you.

That’s a massive base

Your good teacher sir

This field maple work was to me like someone sculpting a rock. It just looked like a field rough tree, but when Peter started to shape it and let the splendid nebari and triple trunk arise my mind blown. Once again, very good job, congrats.

I just Love watching you work. I had some small Maples in the ground. I think I might try potting. ☺☺☺👧👧🌳🌳🍁🍁❤❤❤

You're a star!

Thank you so much Peter for letting us follow you in your daily routine in a nursery. A myriads of trees and actions on a nursery are invaluable to every bonsai lover I think. The only thing if I just may to suggest. Maybe it's just me. Sorry for that then. Anyway, would there be a way to improve the filming a bit? I find the filming is a little overdone by trying to catch all the surroundings while following you and your actions, which I think should be a primary subject for the video. I have no doubt it's a challenge for a camera man to not include all the beaty around you in a video . Needless to say, less is more :)

I was like number 100!

Peter the way you use your Felco's is amazing, you must sharpen them often.

Love these kind of videos. You forgot to work on the weeping willow though....

Peter, I am wondering when is the best time of year to do a hard chop on a trunk. I have a very large yew that I dug out of a garden and recently potted. I'm hoping to reestablish it over the next year and make a drastic chop in a year or two. Best time? Worst time? Peace and love Y'all! -from Tennessee

Nice ! Merci ;) thx

Peter may I suggest you and the team go around and pick out good raw material for styling and put them on on Ebay with correct postage?

3:30 I'd call it "odds-zen-ends"

THOSE DAMN SQUIRRELS!!!!

that 3 trunk tree looks like the whomping willow from H.P.

Could you please tell me the model or model's of Felco hand pruner's you use! Thank's another great video Peter! Rick Hanson

How many truck loads of soil do you go through a year? I can't imagine it's as much as a garden centre nursery would use because the trees take longer to grow than garden centre plants.

"Odds and ends"; yes i like this

i buy a seed of juniper and sakura to be bonsai :)

Great video as always! I see you have some maples that looks like «witches broom» variants. I also have one in my garden and I think they’re both beautiful and strange. Do you have any tips on how to prune them to get the best out of them?

Peter - Would those black pine have grown faster in the ground (instead of the pot)? I totally understand what you are doing with that stock but was just curious if there was a difference.

From the 16:00 mark and throughout time forwards I will think of you as "The Typhoon Bonsai Teacher". 😊 I am a mere deluge as a pressure washer for 30 years. I can't help but think about that mildew on the red maple. As a pressure washer I naturally followed my service with sealants and protective juices, so to speak...to fight future rot and decay...mildews and molds mostly! I think now all of the Earth has the mildew and mold spores just waiting for conditions to look favorable to reproduce. Would we look at the Tree having a deficiency first or the environment? I think, "Where does this tree feel best in nature?". Maples like moist feet but a dry hat I think because humidity on the leaves weaken the barrier allowing the spore to feed. So is your tree in the wrong place, or is it deficient?

First view and comment!! Thank you for all that you do Peter, love the videos!

what was the scientific name of the lime tree that peter showed? i couldn't get it

I really need help with my bonsai lately it has been dropping leaves and I don’t really know why I’ve given it the right amount of water and the soil is not dry I have been thinking about if it’s because of it getting less light

Hello Peter, quick question on japanese maples please. My local park has loads of mature japanese maple trees. Last year every tree had load of seeds, which i collected and successfully germinated. This year not one tree has had any seeds on? Do maples hit and miss a year? Or is there another reason? Thanks, Joe.

Hmm those black pines took 25 years? Couldn’t you speed up development if you grew a sacrificial branch but pinched candles and shoot select to get back budding and ramification?

Good Day Peter! i am wondering ...can leave size or needles length be cut to encourage smaller leaf or needles?

Hello Heron. Curious if you have noticed trees like pine or redwood killing grass? Also if you may know of types of grasses which may do better underneath these you of trees? Thank you do your time

I thought the UK were going back into lockdown...

How much would a tree in these stage of training cost?love watching your videos here in Illinois.

"lo and behold, the plane goes flying again"

Someone buy this man a tree moving dolly

oak tree root doesnt play around

How'd the python rooted sycamore turn out?