Making Bonsai From Juniper Procumbens with Padmapriya 

Another stunning upload for our Sunday breakfast with Peter. Great work Padmapriya loved how it turned out. Thanks also to Jack on the camera. Stay well Stay safe

I always struggle with material so dense, the tip to trim weak branches near the center and branch base was easy to understand

Full botanical name! Yes. Thank you! ❤️❤️❤️ This makes it a lot easier for a global audience to identify the tree by the universal name. I often struggle with the local British names for some trees or miss the second part of the name to identify the species.

Curse you Peter and Padma for constantly making me go out to my local nursery every other day to try out a new shrub.

It’s like the tree will speak to you at some point “this is what I wanna be!” Hahaha

Your videos are always the most fun to watch!

Great video. Padmapriya has a very pleasant and calm voice that fits well with the meditative aspect of creating bonsai.

"We use a secret formula [for the compost], and that formula is..." Oh Peter, you do make me laugh :D

I have been teaching myself watching Peter's videos clips. They are always so informative and inspiring. This is so good to see this video too as it makes the process so clear! I have the reluctant to cut off foliage but watching this session it was great to see the bonsai emerge!

Good morning to Peter and the team as well as those viewing this amazing video.Have a productive day and all the best from Trinidad.🌴☀️

Lovely work from Padmapriya as always. I'd love for him to start some series on this channel.

That bird at 3:30 just chilling over there while they are making bonsai

Watch a complete transformation from beginning to end is super helpful. Also, the tag team approach is fantastic. You learn twice as much.

Your comments on not masterpieces but the fun of creating are so true. That is why I watch everyone of your videos

Great tutorial as always! Thank you Padma and Peter, you are definitely the best online! 😘

Thank you for these type of videos! Always wanted to try it so I got into Bonsai last spring and began by watching basic videos from herons bonsai. I'm happy to say I'm excited to begin my second year and continue to apply the things I've learned from this channel!!!!

Padmapriya is a lovely name, a compound of two Sanskrit words Padma (lotus) and Priya (dear). Dear Lotus!

Yay more Padmapriya content :D

Thankyou so much, these videos make things so much easier and always lift my spirits!

I found your channel this week. I have tried my hand at making three bonsais already. Thanks for showing how it can be an attainable art.

"Nothing from the bottom...nothing growing up". Might not make much sense but, that was what I was told, repeatedly. Also, the statement of... "How do you carve an elephant out of a block of marble?" First and foremost, you need to know what an elephant should look like and, then you, simply, chip off everything that doesn't look like an elephant." Ha! Keep up the great work of providing us with entertaining and educational presentations, Peter. Kudos to Padmapriya for sharing his talent with us. I always enjoy creating windswept and cascading styles with beautiful, little Procumbens. Cheers, Dick from Vancovuer.

Such a great video. I am a complete beginner here and this helped me so much. Thank you.

I love the result of the two trees! The large one makes me think of a big sickle moon in the clouds :)

I love this vídeo! Really clever Peter! Passing on the art of bonsai and the art of teaching via youtube to Padmapriya. Padmapriya, you are an artist beautiful beautiful bonsai!!! I'm sure that with practice you will void give your back to the camera and always think that we want to see what you doing... In time will come as second nature. Ah! A go pro for Padmapriya.

Absolutely gorgeous and so much fun!

Padmapriya is a gem and this has been a huuuuuge inspiration for me! I just bought a similar juniper and I'll see what I can do with it after getting a few more things (thicker wire, for one, and proper soil ingredients) tomorrow. Will be my very first try. Btw: I absolutely love Padmapriyas accent and voice. Could listen to him speak all day long!

Such beauty.I love your videos. Thank you.

Oh it’s so lovely, shape and pot‼️. Could watch you both all day😊

I do so enjoy the laid back approach to bonsai. It is supposed to be fun, and in my eyes not always does it have to be competitive. Thank You

That first Bonsai turned out spectacular, love the curved shape, that would be the front for me!

Two very stunning bonsai by Padmapriya! So wow!

I love how you said at some point the tree will speak to me. I've only just started this month snipping away at things, but I feel exactly the same way. Start sniffing the inside, take off the bottoms of the branches, and then at some point the tree kind of speaks to you and the idea comes together. Beautiful

I like this dude, bring him on again💪

Amazing, love the cascading junipers! I-pad watch time has tripled since I discovered this channel. ❤

Beautiful .. going to try it 👍👍 thx for sharing Peter and Padmapriya.

Really appreciate the vocalization of your thoughts as you design the tree. Great video.

Wonderful video So informative and love the wait and see what speaks to you approach. I could see it appearing as Padma worked. Thank you so much Peter and team. Truly a joy to watch you work together ❤

That made me Cry 🥲 it was so beautiful Bonsai when in the pot , like listening to Pavarotti 🎵 🎼 🎶 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

One of my favorite plants to work with

Thank you Padmapriya. That was very instructive!

Thank you both for a spectacular video. Herons Bonsai is hands down the best you tube channel!

They're lovely! I have two procumbens. I can't wait to work on.

Beautiful pieces of work, especially the cascaded tree.

I have about three or four just growing some density after I trimmed them up and guided them. Beautiful cascades, and they are all shaped like little sea stars! I should give them some TCL on this fine Sunday! Thank you for your helpful tips and continued education!

Another brilliant video...thank you!

Thank you gentlemen your program was just wonderful, totaly enjoyed this one.

Truly beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for helping to encourage others to use their talents! You seem to be a good mentor! Perhaps Peter can start his own channel! 😃 Thanks for the great camera work, also! Working in a close up really helps show the details! 😊

I love cascading bonsai. A very inspiring work. Thank you very much :-)

Really fantastic job . Looks great in the pot . Thanks for sharing 🙏

Absolutely magical to watch and hopefully learn. Thank you.

Excellent video, very instructive! Thanks to Peter for the knowledgeable comments, to Padmapriya for the clear and calm instruction (especially all the basics, which we don't always get to see), and to Jack (?) for the wonderful camera work. It was great to see all the action so clearly close up! A great team effort!

Stunning design padmapriya. Thank you for another great video.

Padmapriya 💖

I love Priya's work!

Nice work, Padmapriya.

A lovely cascade!

I want to thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge about Bonsai. I haven't watched everyone yet but I will. Right now I am trying to learn as much as I can about Junipers. I tool your advice and went to our Home depots and Lowes to purchase the Junipers they have in pots, hopefully create a lovely Bonsai.

Just love & appreciate your videos.

I like how the cascading branch large one kind of curls around the pot! Really nice! I never saw this kind of design before, I think.

This is perfect material for beginners like me who go browsing Bonsai nurseries and want to buy beginner bonsais that need some styling and trimming. Great resource to guide us in the right direction. Thank you

What I appreciate about this channel, compared to other bonsai channels, is the honest, down-to-earth approach. Other channels obviously present high quality bonsai; some of them exquisite with high end accompanying video production that are virtual art pieces in themselves. But... they don't explain themselves nearly so well and I come away feeling as though the art is unapproachable and inscrutable. They're perfect specimens, and I'm always somewhat suspicious of perfection. Somehow it makes me feel as though confidence is lacking. Not so here; here, experiments and mistakes are embraced, thinking is done out loud and any tool is used that can get the job done. There's an organic, friendly ease to the whole process. Oddly, it reminds me of Jamie Oliver, who always makes you feel as though, if he can do it, so can you. He's not producing Michelin Star cuisine for the elite, but he produces food for living and to enjoy, without losing the creative art. That's how I feel here.

Those came out very nice.

LOVELY!!!!

Very nice ,Padmapriya ,well done.

I am a third of the way through making a juniper cascade (same variety used here), this is helpful to refer to thank you. I am inspired to get going with it tomorrow.

Great demo, loved the result

Padmapriya my friend, that is a lovely cascade. If you ever get to the states give me a ring and I will give you a local bonsai tour.

Congratulations on such a beautiful creation! I will be starting my own version very soon 🙏🏻

Beautiful trees and great team work. Thank you for sharing.👏👍🙌

Stunning and beautiful ❤️

Just gorgeous! Now I have to buy a juniper.

Truely stunning. Glad I stumbled upon your channel.

Absolutely Gorgeous Bonsai Beautiful

In the past few years I find myself every spring looking for this plant at my local nursery. As well as hiinoki , and acers just to do exactly this. They are very easy to bonsai and look great. One thing about the Hinoki ( you did that in another video) it will not sprout on the trunk or the mature branches so when you cut away, it may not fill in later.. Understanding how each tree grows also counts. I love your series and your advice. thanks for posting this.

Stunning trees

Thank you for the Demonstration good finish for this Tree

thank you so much for the vid heron, you have been the sole inspiror for me to order a procumbens nana :)

Well done Pad great choice of pot again great video just received my birthday present from my husband one of your Chinese elm and a 5group of dawn redwood beautiful thank you Peter 😊🇬🇧❤️ Jane from bath x

Very pretty!

Really beautiful

Magnifique !

Well done! 😍🌳

Good job Padma. It is always difficult working under the eye of the master, even more so before the camera. I like how you described your analytical approach to design. Your “ birds and squirrels” idea is very insightful. I will use that in my own designs. Your cascading example is excellent. Thank you.

is man is very skilled, you are very luck peter to have him working for you

Very nice video. This is gonna be a spring project for me😁👍🏼

Wonderful video, thanks

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It's getting sunnier and my digging instinct is kicking in. I'm starting to repot my house bonsai ficuses and the like )

Briliant

incredible

Lovely gentle soul

Great work 👍👍👍

i already love these two guys the moment i opened this video, i am subscribed! great vibe. and this is good to know. i was looking in a bonsai book and noticed a style that looked a bit like how my baby juniper is possibly developing towards, there are a couple cascade or windswept styles that ive seen that might work for my juniper.

Sweet

I work by the same method, which is very reassuring since I'm a beginner!

I am coming back to Bonsai after a 20-yr break due to repeated military moves killing off my original trees. I have purchased some "started" trees, but I'm always so afraid to cut them because they are expensive, comparatively speaking. I am now empowered to go to my local nursery and experiment with regular stock and CUT! Thank you so much for these videos!

I love the result of work on the larger tree. I would cut the small branches behind the base of the trunk to expose it even more and lift the foliage visually away from the pot.

Wow amazing.

Awesome🔥❤😍👍