how can i still be impressed after watching 10000 videos of herons...the sheer abundance on the nursery is crazy! One day...Peter... one day i will have such a nursery!
Speaking from the stands point of a designer I always had to have a vision of what be the final design solution will looks like, just like how you think. In the old days we called it imagination, it is based on your experience. Learn something new today, you plant the tree in a pot to thicken the trunk as the tree grows and mature, very interesting. Thank you Peter and have a blessed weekend. 🙏🙏🙏
I have followed your videos for long enough that I should have known better; nevertheless, about 15 minutes into this one, I began to wonder whether you had lost your mind. Yes, you have a fascinating trunk, but how will this ever become a bonsai? But then you suggested it may become a garden tree, so perhaps that is where you are going, after all. I will be curious to see how this turns out!
Great video Peter, I am looking forward to the follow up video for the dig, repot and style this fall. Also when you mentioned the juniper starting to root, but failing for the bridge you made, (10:30) is there any way to invigorate the roots to grow after you open an air layering and you see that the roots are just bubbling at the cut?
Where to start creating a bonsai from such material would scare the life out of me. Where to start? It just goes to show that the old saying "there is no substitute for experience" is true. I think it would take me longer in years to recognise what and where to cut than the age of the tree. It would be nice to see, if possible, the outcome of turning one of these trees into an actual potted up bonsai tree. Perhaps a future video for next year? Great video as usual Peter.
I agree, I have a couple of junipers I purchased last year that I haven’t cut yet, the more I look at it I start to get a vision of what might be. I used to start cutting bits off straight away and was soon left with nothing so I approach them slowly now
How do you transfer one of these trees into a bonsai form? Do you work on the top first or roots first and how much time does it take to get from one of those growing pots to a 'finished' bonsai pot?
