Pruning Bonsai in Summer 

Crazy to think that this nursery will outlive Peter and his children and grandchildren’s🙏🏼 bless to witness such life with nature

Peter, you have cured my anxiety.... Thank you

Since I watched a lot of these videos I decided to give it a go and dig up a small oak I had growing by my fence.I did the proper ways to extract and now weeks later I have small branches growing from its trunk again.I hope to be able to bonsai it

Watching Peter Chan videos on bonsai is my evening zen activity.

The most common advice I've seen in the bonsai forums is to get LOTS of plants because the worst thing you can do to a bonsai is show it too much love because it's all you have to work on. Constantly messing with it...Peter has thousands of trees and proves this is true by quickly giving it a haircut and moving on to the next one that needs a LITTLE attention.

It's Sunday. Must be coffee morning at Heron's with a new video ❤

Thanks for showing us your book photo of the famous pine, along with its later development. Love to see such comparisons.

😭 I thought I preferred the first 3 trees until the video continue and turned out I want them all 😁 haha. So many to gawk at and admire, beautiful and healthy. Well done Peter and thx for sharing 🙏 until next one, cheers 🌲🌿☕.

Looking back at what we have done or when we did it, or even looking at our children & seeing them at 40 yrs of age. I sit & think of the time which has passed by us. wonderful thoughts & peaceful. I thought of this when you know when & where you have started each bonsai. I'm sure you have some great memory's looking back at your business & what you have created.

Such an amazing and beautiful story, That Scott Pine is an amazing and beautiful specimen!!

It’s the perennial problem of doing something you love as a calling/career/business: it can take a lot of the joy out of the experience. It’s something you have to consider carefully before taking that leap. Love these videos though and I wish I had the experience to be able to prune with that efficiency. Impressive.

thank you Peter.... I would love to see a time lapse camera video of all you do in one day. I'm sure it would be amazing to see just what you do in one hours time!

There is so much work to do! Always love to watch you at work,Sir! Should love to do these tasks any were,myself,wonderfull!

It's always a pleasure to watch your nursery tours

These trees are magnificent!

Thanks for the lovely video Peter. Such a lot of pruning, and nicely done, you are like poetry in motion. Enjoyed it all, and look forward to the next one.

Brilliant, love to see these nursery tours.

Moin, Thank you for this greate Video! The Gernman version of your Book "Masterclass" is a bit differend. The mentioned famous tree ist not on the outside, it is on page 72 / 73 but it is the same picture. Thank you very much to show the tree and tell the story behind it. For me, if I look at the picture, the first thing I see is definitly the blue pot. This is a very good exampel about the interaction between the Pot and the Tree. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and experience!!!

Thank you... 🙏 😔 🙏 Dr. Chan, thoroughly enjoyed the tour.... Another very dense(filled with information) video,,,, as are all your videos.... 🙏 🖖🙏

✂️🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿✂️🌿🌿🌿🌿🌴 another relaxing start to a Sunday morning! You could of called this video (PETER SCISSOR HANDS)! 😊👍

Wire marks most certainly have a time and place. I wrapped the trunks of a load of larch saplings 3 years ago. Probably frowned upon by purists, but it's given me 20+ twisty shohin trees that have brilliant taper in their trunks now. No wire in sight either as it's now contained inside the trunk! Literally 4/5 years to a very believable tree.

Good morning from Trinidad. I am learning so much.Thanks Peter for your time and tutorials.💕

Thank you for sharing the history of the trees. Hope to see more of these videos.

You're right, the pruning never Ends! Amazing Trees as always!

I'm in love with maples

I just started a bonsai collection so this was very helpful! Thank you!

WOOOOOOW. The same tree. Oh! I ❤️this tree.

I work at an Architecture practice. A lot of our clients' residential developments are in Purley! We are currently looking to develop a site there ourselves. Personally for me, a community-based bonsai/ garden housing scheme would be a dream but alas, finances and planning make that dream hard to envision.

Thanks Peter.

Thank you. Your kindness comes through your intelligent discourse and makes all the information easier to assimilate. I am gathering materials to make some hypertufa pots and tools and was granted permission to harvest from a few neighbors woods... thank you soo much.

Thank you for another great video Uncle Peter!!

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS, Peter! I am fairly new to bonsai - always loved trees and their natural beauty. I appreciate the depths of your videos - all the dirty work, no video cuts. I enjoy listening to you speak about the trees and hearing your thought process on training the trees - it makes me feel like I am in the room with you and learning. So I know you get comments about the length of your videos but I love it! Keep up the amazing content. If I had to have a wish for your videos, it would be for before and after videos, like watching a video from a year or 2 ago, I'd love to see an update of the tree with a before and after :)

thank you sir for showing this, you have a beautiful bonsai garden.

31:21 primary branches of a hornbeam grow upwards naturally

You made a great pun-going to pot! I so admire your talent.

Thanks for your informations you give in your videos. i'm looking all of them.

Love from Bharat!

I love this guy!

Thank you

Love your videos. Thanks

Thank you for good advice kupchak 😂🥰

Stunning vid thank you for sharing. Nice to see the oak in the carpark again. Spring has come early here a lot of the trees are budding but we expected to get minus 2 next weekend so will have to cover them all.

Wonderful demonstration and talk. Thank you!!

Morning Peter iv not long discovered your channel,iv been keeping up with all your videos,iv just pruned my three bonsies ,you have taught me so much ,my trees are 70 years old thank you for teaching us what to do an not to do ,your love for all these trees shine through sending lv Ann uk x-

Well done !!

I enjoyed this very much. I really get a lot of inspiration from watching you work so effortlessly. Makes me realize that my hobby is a form of meditative distraction for me, in my unbelievably, stressful life. I was sitting yesterday evening, looking at my benches full of my trials and errors, and contemplating how I am going to have to chop the trunks on two of my Tridents at some point. They are about 12 years old, but have very slight taper from the root base along their height. ( These were bonsai nursery stock I bought this year ) I have done trunk chopping in the past with my Japanese maples, and Dawn Redwoods, but the massive loss of the tree on these Tridents will mean years of "grow back" just to start training again. At my age, I sometimes find myself just leaving them and concentrating on branch training, and ramification, knowing I may not be here to see them through the process of re-growth....I should have started learning this many, MANY years ago...

thanks for sharing, lov'it!

Great work Mr.Chan , truly fantastic trees! Thanks for the video. Greetings from Belgium.

loved this and I have the book I used to have 20 silver birch but. .. ..sadly all lost now I have quercus, Taxus, horse chestnut , maple, Betula, love your walk about a as it mentions trees I have thank you Peter such a beautiful legacy just hope My saved videos stay saved (thank you RU-vid) I had a stroke in 2020 and I'm enjoying my trees and videos. love your shirts too

I have really enjoyed all the videos he does it has really helped me try to figure out how to care for mine

39:40 It's lovely seeing you're field maple (acer campestre), I have one of my own that is much younger then you'res. I have it wired and have seen some success from wiring it earlier in the year already. I look forward to seeing it's autumn colour, but, of course the real star is the bark. The bark is very rugged looking with those paler lines going down it. It has not produced seeds for me this year, but that's ok. If it produces seeds I'll propagate a few more.

First! Two weeks to my Peter Chan tribute tour to Wisley and Herons 😊 Always very interesting and amusing to hear your stories and anecdotes. 🙏

two different wellies - classic!

I have that book. Had it for many years.

😁the madness method i like but i am always tempted to prune and enjoy the daily cut. Thanks for sharing your knowledge Sir.

Very beautiful.

how many times have I heard from you "how easy it is to cut your finger when pruning trees" ... and so I was not careful and cut my finger with scissors

koleksinya keren om

Thanks Peter, some super trees there, far too big for my garden though.

Nice video!!

learn so much, thanks for sharing!👍

Very good

Nice bonsai

Hi from Pamplona. Peter Chan is the best

Nice

Very interesting story about your famous tree from the book cover.

i like that u wear two different pair of rubber boots ;)

Обалдеть Красота какая😍

Sir respect

1st minute..me...dang he got good trees !

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 thanks Peter

Another great video.. I would love to have any of the maples in that long row that said not for sale lol. That that Japanese hornbean is beautiful. All of them are

Hadir mengikuti, Mantap perawatan bonsai🌳nya mister Sukses selalu 😀👍 salam dari INDONESIA👍

Good morning ...i had caterpillars prun my larch this year.🥲🥲🥲 so no satisfiing pruning for me .tho its has al new growth.im happy it did not die .guess i was rite on time saving it

Super.! Jeszcze proszę pokazać jak formować świerk.

=========maybe a video about seedlings /cuttings? what can now be rooted ?

Godjob👍

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You mentioned chopping the trunk to create taper. Is there a "best" time to do this for deciduous trees? Some say dormancy, some say early spring to encourage healing through the first growth season...your opinion?

Hey Peter, how are you and your family? I wish almighty must keep you and your family best of health and happiness. Great effort ,, the knowledge you share is Priceless cause you put your Heart to deliver it to the subscribers. Seriously hats off to you 👍👍

I would love to work there!

It would be nice to have some videos on tropical bonsais 👍

Another inspiring video, what is the red tree over your shoulder in the background?

理容師になれるね✂️

That tree is as old as me. lol

Hi Peter, What do you use to feed the trees? Do you use different fertilisers for different trees? Best wishes from South Africa.

Amazing Sunday morning viewing Peter. Would love to see how you prune juniper procumbens. 🙏🏻

Video 16:00 regarding the pretty blue pot... traditions are often based in practicality. Are there justifications for using an unglazed, porous pot for a pine to allow the pot to shed salts and allow air exchange? And also, a glazed pot would better maintain humidity for moisture- loving trees such as maples. Curious.

Tradução Pará o português do Brasil GRATIDÃO. Quanto custa um bonsai destes?🙏🙌👏.

Ways question different from other just people love natural turtles like loudly began judgment of no way open 📚reply no longer already just outside warking or anything pirates ✂️have beautiful design no child Drime early 🥰😊

I live in the Black Hills of South Dakota in the United States. Have been interested in Bonsai all my adult life. I'm actually a logger and have made my living cutting Pine, Spruce, Red Cedar, Fir & Hemlock as well as Aspen, from the British Columbian Coast AND the Canadian Rockies down into Washington and Oregon, across to Idaho, Montana, Wyoming to here in the Black Hills of Western South Dakota... and while I know it's odd for a person who cuts down Pines and Spruce to enjoy the Art of Bonsai...or to care about Trees, actually I wanted to get my degree in Forestry and work for the National Forest Service but when I was a Sr. In high school my Father was crushed and nearly killed by a run away section of Ponderosa Pine log that was 35' long and about 8' across at the big end while he was running a Log Skidder so since I was the oldest and we had employees to pay and contracts to fill we worked it out with my high school so I could finish my schooling at night so I could graduate at mid term from High School and help my Mom run the family Logging Business, and I have been in the Timber ever since. When I married and we had children they we worked so both our kids could go to college and now our Daughter works for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service in Yellowstone...and our Son Works as a Forester for the National Forest Service and...the Wife and I....well we still own and run our little family Logging Company and I still carry a chainsaw to the tall timber every day only now we work through the US Forest Service and Thin out over grown forest to help rid us of the Pine Bark Beatles....it's an up & down hill ( honestly) job but very rewarding when we see forest that we thinned 15 years ago now full of beautiful huge Ponderosa Pines and Black Hills Spruce, Blue Spruce and White Fir growing to sizes un-seen and not heard of here in nearly a hundred years...we have Ponderosa now that are 100' tall and 5' across at the stump and they are as straight as telephone poles and perfectly healthy. Anyway Mr.Chan I just wanted to say thank you so much for your videos and your experience and taking the time to teach people who want to enjoy the Art and beauty of Bonsai....since I have been working along with your videos "using the 2 branch method" my blood pressure has dropped so much it's not even funny. The peace and quiet, the beauty and serenity that one creates when working with a nice healthy Spruce or Juniper is simply amazing. Thanks Again so very much. Oh I am told that the Black Hills Spruce is a species of Spruce that grows NO WHERE IN THE WILD BUT HERE ....All I know is they have wonderful snow white wood and are very hardy trees they can and do grow outside in the earth up to 80 to 100 feet tall but yet the will grow on a rock if there is a crack where the tap roots can get water ....I would love to send you some seedlings if it's possible to do so ?....one if my best Bonsai is a Black Hills Spruce that had honestly grown its roots around a bucket size piece of Granite and has naturally stunted growth and it was all twisted to start with ....well It was on a hillside that was going to have a forest service road cut through it so I got permission and removed it rock and all and brought it straight home and put it in a heavy home made clay bonsai pot that my wife made for me in her pottery shop ( her hobby is pottery ) she and I designed one that could hold the chunk of granite it was growing around that I had to bust in half so we could lift and move it later and I have been working on it for about 2 years now ...it's my greatest joy and a reminder of what nature can do on its own so much better than I can. Thanks Again so much Mr.Chan R.C. and Tracie Hill. Post Script: Sorry this was so long a reply but I wanted you to understand how much your kind and selfless act of making videos goes even to people a long way from the U.K. !

About wiring... I wired My plants outside and bended 2 branches that losed all the leaves and now they are redoing the leaves and new growth losing thin branched did this year. (I am talking about my edge plants) Is it cos I did it in the beginning of the summer ?

Where can I find the big shallow plastic pots? Like the last tree in the video?

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Do you sharpen your scissors and secateurs often?

Is there any kind of tree that you wouldn’t shape as a bonsai?

Mr. Chan, in reference to the japanese goumi tree you mentioned, does it have thorns? We have three in our yard that we grow to make jelly out of and they have some gnarly thorns on them some maybe 2 inches.

Is wire a part of a bonsai tree. Can a finished bonsai be really a bonsai only if there is no wire in it.

You have beautiful beautiful do you sell any of them because I love to buy one from you it's real real beautiful and it's a lovely job you have wonderful hands to make bonsai you are very good artists with plants

That tree looks like it has a foot 😁