Silver birches are my favorite trees. Your birch forest is gorgeous ❤ I have to create a forest of birches for myself. So pretty and inspiring 🤩 Thanks a lot Tony for sharing yours! 🙋♀️ Cheers Martina
Wow! More and more sophisticated. Love the apparent randomness - makes your composition look so natural. Good work. We all will love tracking its development. Thanks again for another inspiring video.
Thank you. Yes, I couldn't believe how good this looked when it was finished. I'm now looking forward to showing you what it looks like when it first leafs out
That is looking fantastic Tony. No doubt that your channel has become my favorite. You have so many great projects going on and at the same time i´m most likely at the same level with my trees. Therefore it´s much more intersting. None of us can keep up with the trees the bonsai professional has anyway. It´s more fun to follow you and others like you. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for the lovely comment. Much appreciated. I know exact;y what you mean, It is enjoyable seeing the top guys working on huge old ancient trees worth tens of thousands, but as you say, they are generally out of our reach. I'm really looking forward to updating on all these projects over the coming months as they come alive!
Hi Tony I love the forest it looks great really looking forward to see it when it leafs out its going to look amazing and the pot you used is fantastic I love the colour I think its a great match for the trees in the forest
Thanks Anthony. I wasn;t too sure about the pot colour, but I think it's growing on me, and it will be interesting to see what it looks like when all the trees are in leaf in a few weeks.
I haven't no, but Xavier sent me a dawn redwood rooted cutting which is outside and seems to be growing well. They seem like quite a difficult tree to work on. Are you a fan?
@Tonys Bonsai Ha! I was actually looking for a figurine that would show ''windswept' like someone caught in a storm or something. If I find something worthy of your attention, I'll send it your way. Have a good week end, friend!
It's a bit heavy Richard, but a fair bit lighter than that huge rock I put the hawthorns on 🤣. I'm really happy with it though. It looks good on the screen, but in real life it has a genuine feeling of a proper birch forest.
Looking really good Tony it should look like a true forest, some people put two or three trees and call it a Forest I hope they all make it no reason why they shouldn’t, I started making one with a pot around the same size as yours but calling a copse of multi trunk cotoneaster but I think I will take it apart and start again as just don’t like it, the pot has no wire holes so I glued small hooks along the inside so I could link wires through them it seem to have worked well but not happy with the composition. All the best with yours Tony.
Sounds like you went for an ambitious project there with cotoneaster. I can imagine they could be quite a difficult tree to put together in a convincing way. I'm sure you're up for the challenge though and if you don't like how it looks now, I agree. better to have another go.
Hats off to you Tony, that's one big forest planting. Ryan Neil would be proud 😁 it's going to look amazing come summer, can't wait to see it all in leaf. As I've said before your design/compositions are really coming on, it's great to watch your development in all things bonsai 👍
Thank you. I definitely feel like my skills and knowledge are improving, and as you say, when this comes into leaf it's going to look quite beautiful I think.
That’s some amazing trees there dude, them roots have almost filled the pot already and that’s placed on the pottery base, good luck trimming them in a couple of years 😂😂, but that’s a really nice arrangement indeed, grats
I love forest compositions and this one is a beautiful one (it really looks already quite mature which makes the forest not look like it's just now made) ! You'll have a lot of work though , the upcoming years with getting more branching on each tree, to refine each one and to keep the center of the composition open enough for the light getting in, otherwise you'll get a lot of die back and you said it yourself in the video, birches are already from themselves easy 'die backers'. And you already have so many projects going on ! Soon, you won't need more trees, but more hands and eyes !!! 🖐👁😂 But if you take good care of this forest, it will look fantastic in a few years 👍
yes, I will certainly have my work cut out, but I find birch are very easy to prune, and I do expect a bit of dieback inside which would be a very natural process and something I definitely see in birch woodland. My main concern is that a couple of these trees don't make it, but if that happens I'll just replace them next spring.
Amazing material to start with Tony. Fantastic composition as well. I’m a huge fan of forests/Penjing. This one certainly has the potential to be a masterpiece. I’m looking forward to seeing more of this in the future. Thanks, keep growing
@@TonysBonsai l visited a nursery today and looked for silver birch Tubesock but no help there. l fancy a birch forest like yours but may have to wait for springtime in Melb Aust. Cheers and loved your Natural looking forest.
Absolutely fantastic composition Tony. One for the ages. I just love those Silver Birches. What an amazing trunk color. Can’t wait for the first real branch selection and general pruning. Another really good video. What about Tuscany? I think you left us hanging on that one! 😅
Hi Steve. Yes I think I'll do some pruning in late summer I reckon. As for Tuscany, I'll be updating on that in the next few days in a 'take a look at what's dead' video 🤣🤣
Forest first! 🌳💚 That pot is wonderful Tony, I love the colour. Where did you get it from? The composition looks great mate. Really nicely placed and positioned 👍
Watch our for the birds 🐦 in 5 minutes all that moss will be tossed off as they search for insects. I got a realistic owl today in the post, hope that works 🦉 don't get me started on pigeons lol
That looks really nice that Tony I love silver birches I've wanted a silver birch bonsai for ages but can't find one for love nor money where did you get yours from?
By the time I fit everything together and lifted the trees a bit etc, they are all sat on around an inch or so of soil. In the past I've found that If I put too much in at the beginning when working with this kind of material, it all ends up getting kind of clogged up with the roots. If I was using just standard material, I definitely would put some soil down first.
I suppose I should have put down a thin layer first, but I was concerned with the trees being too high in the pot, and after you work the soil down they were probably sat on a good inch
All my previous bare root trees have either been bought online from places like ebay etc, or from local nurseries (I'm lucky to have several really good commercial nurseries within only a few miles). These trees however were supplied by a close friend of mine who has access to some land.
