I begin to pick out and to work on my trees for the KW fall bonsai show. I'm choosing different trees this year, so I can continue growing the rest wild for the summer.
Ella Bella, I'm wondering if you have tried growing any bonsai yourself since you made your last comment a year ago. I'm guessing you would enjoy it, but maybe not. If you don't have a knack for styling, as well as having most importantly a green thumb, then I'm sure the sport could be quite frustrating for some. I've harvested and grown for a decade or so, and I still suffer from some anxiety and regret when I overly butcher a plant, or forget to water, over-water, winterize, etc. and the tree dies. Overall though the happiness it brings for me far outweighs the unpleasant feelings of failure. Continuing to learn and enjoy the experiment myself.
@@Rick-the-SwiftI also love watching his videos, it actually relaxes me. So powerful to see someone so committed to something, it's inspiring. I'm considering growing one myself, and maybe overcome my fear of failure.
@@pryscil4 Best of luck to you in your endeavors! Thank you for your genuine reply, and please feel free to update with any success or failures you may have in the future. Looking forward to more learning myself :)
Wooow!! Nigel dada. I love your videos.Your African landscape is my one of the favorites.I watched the video 4 times! You are my inspiration.You are like my teacher. I have learnt a lot of things from you.
Thank you so much for this wonderful video Nigel. All the trees are looking great. African landscape is getting more and more beautiful after your magical surgery! Thanks again for a very good tutorial video. Wishing all the best.
amazing as always. the African landscape is one of my favorites. the one thing I noticed though is your little safari truck isn't realistically sized compared to the tree. as they don't grow that big. just a thought :)
Thank you, I hope to get a better model of a Land Rover. I have seen some on E bay, but they are really expensive! The bottom of the trees are usually the height of a giraffe standing on it's back legs. They prune all they can reach.
Hey Nigel - please send me an email mjmondrinos @ gmail with the ideal size for your model Land Rover. I can 3D print one for free at work and you would just have to paint it as the build material will be a single color.
Nigel Saunders uuuhh Nigel... hi. I forgot OH I remember now. Why do you prune your trees like that? I'd target the branches and try not to cut the leaves just to get the shape quickly. I wonder what happens to the leaves you cut I legit don't know I'm guessing they stay half cut lol.
Nigel Saunders uuuhh Nigel... hi. I forgot OH I remember now. Why do you prune your trees like that? I'd target the branches and try not to cut the leaves just to get the shape quickly. I wonder what happens to the leaves you cut I legit don't know I'm guessing they stay half cut lol.
While watching this video I realized, Nigel, that you're like the Bob Ross of bonsai! I've been watching your videos for a few weeks now and it hasa inspired me to start an herb garden, and a couple of bonsai with some local trees: Bur Oak, and Mulberry tree.
I watched one of your videos and subscribed instantly. I just love how chill you are, you’re just talking out your thoughts as you work, it’s so awesome to see and hear your process as you work with your trees. It gives me inspiration to shape my trees, as well as provides me with a deeper understanding of the art and how the trees live and function. It’s so clear how passionate you are, and how much you love bonsais!! Awesome channel!! Keep it up!!
i just love watching your videos. especially on a sunday noon as it is right now here in germany :) you're always so passionate about your landscapes. its adorable how you focus even on the smallest details
My goodness, what a wonderful tribute to the shelf frames we sent to you. You have done them up so nicely and made us so very proud of how you used them. I would like to remind you that you 'could' put yet another two shelves onto this frame. One under the one in front, making that a place to put extra items and plants. And the other under the top one. This could be for plants that you would like to be more protected. We have used this one, in particular, for extra vessels for upcoming plantings. We would like to share that this is a patented product :)
Hey Nigel, another great thing to remove mos from the bark is rubin a little bit of vinegar ... and just wait, they will dryout and live the bark crystal clean
@@TheBonsaiZone Thank you very much, sorry for this late reply, I have been busy so far so I can't answer you, really thank you for your support and assistance. A sincere word from a friend wishes you all the best. thank you
Thank you, I'll be working on the tree over the summer. It had a hard time this winter and I almost lost it. I'm not sure why, but it got really weak. It is growing like a weed now that it is back outside again!
I was surprised to see you “pruning“ with scissors with such rough cuts. I would think you’d have several partial cut leaves and that wouldn’t be desirable.
This is a method to get an accurate profile to the top of the tree, it does cut leaves and branches in undesirable spots, but the tree quickly grows in new leaves and the ones that were cut in half can be cleaned up. I would not do this technique right before a show, the tree needs a few weeks before it looks really good.
Mark Dillon, you do realize that when you say the word "desirable", you are assigning that emotion to only some individuals, and many of which will change their definition of "desirable" sooner than they change their underwear. Soo IOW, I guess what the master did was prudent to the master at the time of his suffering. Seasons greetings and happy holidays and may ALL of your cuts- whether clean or rough be desirable to those who care enough to discern.
If you had a 4wd that looked realistic, you could take photos and everyone would think you were camped out in the middle of nowhere but with a great looking place you decided to camp at for the night. Love the vids, would love the pics of how it would look with the bonsai and realistic looking vehicle etc. That would be awesome
their all so beautiful! Very Inspiring! i just ordered my first seeds (jasmine, orange bonsai, sunflower seeds) I can't wait to apply what im learning through your videos! 💟 wish me luck!
Thx for sharing this video, as always I really enjoyed it. I don't exactly know why, but your videos can still keep me on track, while many other videos just bore me. It's probably the way how you lead from start to the result. Also I often think while watching your videos "he should not have done that" and a few seconds later I tend to change my mind again, it's probably a drive of my inside to find something in your videos I can't agree with, but until now it's quite not a story of success :) I like your new place you built to manage your Bonsais and film the process, the black background is just perfect, and it all looks very tidy. Btw. I miss the squirrel, does this little guy still live ?
Thank you Enty Ropy, try watching "Bonsai by LAN" videos. He seems to do everything I would do to his trees, when I watch it's like he's reading my mind! ru-vid.com/show-UCUPnojoIz0Nrjet9XzGBD3Q
Awesome channel, thx for this Link ! I know what u mean, In 99% of the times you do cut something I knew how and that it would happen. It has to do with intuition.
Awesome!!! Even your hair is a bonsai!!! I sub'd! I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos and learning the art of bonsai so that I can start my own. Thank you for the videos.
Dear Nigel, could you, by any chance, show off the current state of the tree you introduced at 18:41? I'd love to see how the moss recovered around the base of the tree. I love your channel. I found it today and it's constantly keeping me from studying maths. =)
I was wondering do you do a job in horticulture or not.Cause you’re really well versed in plants and bonsai trees and it makes me happy you have a deep passion about it.
Are aspens or populas good for bonsai? I know they share a root system and send many shoots. I like the idea of maybe doing a bonsai forest of those. take care Negil you are inspiring
Your the man Nigel i wish i lived near you. I guess not i would just be a pain in your butt. But i do love your work i watch you every day. Your the reason i want to bonsai.
Thank you Mr. Kraft, 40 k, I remember getting 100 total channel views and I was amazed! Thank you everyone, it has been a great journey with the best yet to come!
hey Nigel, i am a bonzai noob, just wondering what you recommend to get started with moss, where to get it, how to spread it, etc...thanks for you awesome videos sir!
Yes an update will be coming. The show will be instead of our regular club meeting, on Sept 20th. I have a lot of fine details to get right before the show.
Hi again Nigel, Im wondering do you wire your pots from the bottom and into the root ball? I was looking through your videos and don't see any wires sticking up. Again, thank you for your beautiful videos, I especially enjoyed watching you create your vision for the pads on the african landscape.
I hope you weren't offended. I just can't help it, lol. I am a big fan. I am pretty sure I've seen all your videos. Some more than a few times. You have been a great help. I have applied many of your techniques to my bonsai trees. I have many on the go right now and in various stages. Some from seed, some collected and others were projects I have purchased. I am going to send in some pics. Hope to see them on the viewers pics one day. Keep up the videos! Thanks
Nigel,,I have really been enjoying your wonderful Bonsai videos. One question I wonder about often is if you have a feeding program of any sort for your various Bonsai. I assume there must be something more than just rainwater for keeping your pants healthy. Would you discuss this subject in some future release. That would be greatly appreciated. IMHO...you are a Bonsai master and an excellent sensai.
Nigel Saunders did you plant all the trees, or did you buy them, bought a bonsai myself, it has a lat of big roots tho, couldn't find one with one tree trunk
Hi Nigel, really loving these videos. I'm trying to follow a select few of your trees (for my own learning and study of specific kinds). Do you have any kind of index to indicate which videos might include which trees?
Nigel, I really love what you do with your trees. I feel like I learn a lot from your videos and I really want to get to work on my own trees soon lol I was wondering, though if you considered adding any small flowering plants that you could use for a rainforest bonsai? It could look very tropical! Maybe cuttings of creeping thyme or allysium. I think the colorful flowers would make a beautiful composition :) anyways, thank you for sharing!
I check my trees 3 times a day to see if they need water. I only water when the soil looks like it is starting to go dry. Other than that, nature does most of the work!
Enjoyed the video. It inspired me to pay a little more attention to the Ficus bonsai I bought about a year ago. Really impressive stuff you've got going. Do you have any beginners videos or have any recommendations?
Check out some of the playlists that posted under the playlist tab on the channel main page, you will see the progression of many trees. Some of these are started from seeds.
Hey again! How about an update on the sarisa too?! That’s my favourite of all your trees! I’m getting my requests in now before your channel blows up further, you certainly didn’t have 80k subscribers when I first subscribed!!!
It is getting wild looking, like my hair, so an update will be coming soon! It's very exciting having over 80,000 subscribers and I am grateful for each one.
Nigel what is the fungus on the second tree? I see that on a lot of my full grown trees in the back yard it seems to be killing them or like a cancer. 2) I thought the same about the jeep/car on the first tree. Im not sure if its bad or good really it does give it scale at the same time does it make it more fiction? idk lol Im just looking at it in an artistic way. I love the videos and it challenges me to think of the ideas artistically along with the possibilities.
Hello Leland, possibly you are referring to the moss on the second tree? Possibly the Lichen. Both these will do no harm if kept under control. You can remove it with a tooth brush or tweezers. The nice thing about bonsai is that the possibilities are limitless!
Awesome video love the scapes, always enjoy things like the little car added to it. What s the name of the bushy plants you often use at the base of your trees? Looks like an interesting plant.
I may do that in future, but I'm trying to get more strength in the tree at the moment, it will just have to grow for a while to gain some more foliage.
Hi Nigel, good job for the African style. It seems that the tree is very stable and I don't see you use any wire winding the tree root from the bottom. How do you managed to make it so stable?
I prune my root base to be flat on the bottom and all the roots to grow in a radial pattern. This helps keep the tree stable until the roots begin to grow again. Here is my video on this.... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AcSu8SUQ0kE.html
Hey Nigel! First off, beautiful bonsai's as always! you never fail to disappoint. Second, I noticed you use a lot of moss with your trees. do you feel as though the moss interferes at all with fertilizing the tree? If so, how do you combat that? (I'm very new to growing bonsai trees and was curious if that has any effect)
When you are watering your trees, and the moss is dry on the surface, you will need to pre soak the moss before watering the tree. I just give all the moss a light watering and then come back to the tree a little later and give it a thorough watering. The water and fertilizer run through the moss with no problems and reach the roots. Moss requires misting on hot days and some maintenance pruning to keep it short and away from the trunk of the tree.
so if you just chopped one clean in half, would it have a bunch of little rings to tell its age? and can you get a bonsai to produce a full size fruit? I think the last one would be cute - a tiny tree and a big orange or a big lemon!
Hello Hannah, the bonsai will produce regular flowers and fruit, it's the one thing that can't be miniaturized. You can pick varieties that naturally have small fruit, like crab apples! Yes, the rings would tell the trees age, if you can see them, they would be very tiny!
I work mostly doing theater and show, set design using 3D modeling and rendering software. My RU-vid channel was just a hobby until this year. As the channel grew, so did the time I needed to answer questions and make videos. I had to monetize my channel to continue to keep it running smoothly into the future. My channel is like a small part time job that I love to do! Here is a bus I designed for the Calgary Stampede show..... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gSeRgnDRSbw.html
What kind of moss do you use? (And where do you get it?) I've been slightly obsessed with moss for a long time, but I *cannot* for the life of me keep it alive! :(
I collect the moss from a place that gets full sun. I usually find it in cracks in the sidewalk or driveways. Regular watering and misting on hot days keeps it nice and green!
1:14 love the tiny furniture! do u have any tiny garden tools in there? small bags of fertilizer? I redid one of those a few years ago, il have to show you sometime XD they're great for tiny jars of fresh herbs ;)
I don't think they would have much chance of survival after cutting away from the mother tree. Sometimes suckers will grow there own roots if in the right spot and touching soil. Which would have a better chance of survival when separated. But then he would have to dig them up and mess up the scape he already has set. Right before a show makes it a bad idea. In this situation, it's just best to snip them off for now. Such young small and green suckers don't root very well. That I know of anyway. I find it sad to see any cutting being thrown out. Even leaves.lol haha. I want to save and try to root everything. But in most cases, it's just not worth the time and effort. to the compost it goes. I was starting to run out of room to place my rooting cuttings.lol so, I get why you said something about this. Rooting did come to mind when I first watched him cut them off.
