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It’s like a child in a chocolate shop!

Fantastic video Scott. I can see Chris getting into bonsai in the near future.

I was there on Saturday Scott and it was packed. Absolutely brilliant day, I even met Peter Chan 😁

Was there on the same day - didn't see you or would have said hello. Agree with all your comments about the quality of the trees in the exhibition. Whilst the largest examples and ones in the demo were amazing, it allowed me to realise i'm drawn to the smaller examples also. Can see what people say about hoarding but guess we beginners also need material to practice on? Anyway, nice quick review, cheers once again!

Thanks for the video mate!! Amazing as always. Masterful bonsai TH-cam and chat👌👌 I found bonsai after a military stress injury. Thankful for the community for sure🙏

@7:40, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, its Virginia Creeper! A very hardy (invasive) vine native to North America. Fast growing too.

Enjoy your content 👊🏻. Started my bonsai journey this year at age 44. Your approach is genuine and relatable to us who have just opened the door to another reality. Cheers from the USA🕉️

Good man Scott, keep up the great work

hang in there mate, it gets easier

Another great tour, thank you Scott. It was a very big show with so many quality trees. I always reflect on the time spent growing and resources needed for such expensive show trees. It will always be out of reach for myself and my small windy garden would not be the best enviroment for such an investment. It does however make me feel very grateful for the small little trees I have grown myself and my future plans and the day to day pleasure Bonsai brings to me. I always enjoy hearing others thoughts and experiences as bonsai is so much more than just growing a tree in a pot. Take care.

Yes Scott! I thought you might still be lost in Heathrow somewhere 😂 how are you doing?

Nice video guys.. to my surprise, i watched the entire video.

that looks like a lot of fund to walk around

I paused this video and went and bought a dwarf yaupon holly at my own local nursery. Thanks for the inspiration!

I truly enjoyed this. Great idea to bring along a novice friend.

Interesting work. Any update? Grts Kennet

Thank you for this! Love all his videos and wish he would do more tours like this.

super helpfull

Hi, I like your videos and comments. I only start with bonsai adventure, how often you need to repot and cut roots?

Lovely job

Absolutely love cork bark black pine! Really nice pick!

Honestly... I'd just create the first bit of deadwood from that branch.

Greetings from Nova Scotia nice video cheers 😮

Chris, day one in bonsai. Meets Peter Chan, gets grandiose tour of the uk’s premier bonsai nursery. Pretty much another museum. Unreal again mate. Great stuff

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Your friend has an interesting mind / thought proces. Fruit does not reduce in size.

I love it at herons and it's dangerously close to my house. Really nice black pine 👌

Nice little Black Pine - not long since i visted

Chris has a Bonsai brain. Even though these nurseries have been filmed a lot , you always bring a fresh perspective. I love how you give us a better look at each tree than most people. 👍🇦🇺

Great video, I liked that. Chris seems like a really great mate. It was good to meet him within your video, he has a great presence. How do Herons compare with Greenwood's? Did you prefer one over the other? I went to Herons once, in October 2022, on the way back from Germany home to west Wales. I didn't expect to buy a tree, but come away with an interesting trident maple. It was in a 5L pot in black compost, branches were dying, It needed some serious tlc. It was used for airlayering. But the stand out element was the base of the trunk, its really impressive for a smallish tree. If Peter was there I'm sure he would have charged me a lot more than the £20 a staff member charged me for it!! Over the winter another branch died off, but in february 2023 I took the chance and bear rooted it into a bigger pot with a freedraining medium and since it has put on some amazing growth. I'd love to send you a photo of it. I'll try and find you on facebook. I subscribed today. Yeah nice one 🙂 I look forward to more videos 🙏

Great video. IMO you don't have to spend huge amounts of money to get into bonsai. If you have an old garden hedge, dig a bush up and start training it or air layer a few branches off it or buy garden centre shrubs. Don't spend too much time looking at mature specimens that are too expensive. You will lose trees and make mistakes. The enjoyment is in the process not the ownership of expensive trees. Get hold of lots of material and start developing them and learn as you go. Learn to take cuttings and air layerings. That's my advice. I started over about forty years ago and have never bought an expensive tree but I now have trees that are well developed and looking really convincing, and I have tons of material that I have been developing over the years.

those pines are cork bark pines grow not that well in our climat uk / Holland

Hoped to see your mate Chris do a regain over the pond. 🙂 Time is a major factor with bonsai. I am developing olive and spruce trees I ground-planted over 40 years back. At age 64 now if I want my 'ideal' mature bonsai maple tree I'll have to pay for it.

I know it's his prerogative but the price of his tree's is way over the top for 99.5% of people

Great video lads.. enjoyed that...never been to herons

Another great tour thank you Scott. Chris's thoughts made an interesting contribution for those who are new to bonsai. Great to see the Cork barked Pine That is a good price as they are all grafted and have been grown for a few years already. Will look forward to your next bonsai nursery adventure.

Scott I'm not sure if you actually work 😂! I feel like you're at a new garden centre or bonsai nursery every day haha.

herons! So cool man

Great video. Harry Tomlinson's book is arguably one of the best for learning bonsai techniques.

I'd keep the top branch for now, and do a landscape planting. It would look good as a lone windswept tree on a country side hill. 👍

I would have bought the dwarf Cotton Easter In the middle with a nice trunk at 31:20!

show winners all. Great video

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Personally I’d keep the top branch and turn the tree on a 45 degree angle and use the thicker branch as a semi cascade, also maybe Use the small branch to the right of the new apex and wire it up and down to make more of a natural point to the tree

A lovely view of some fantastic trees, thankyou 💚 very expensive though hey! I have a bit of feed back id like to give, the monologue at the end, even though you raised some good, reflective points for all of us to reflect on, felt too long and slow which can cause the attention of the watcher to wane. It would be better to keep them shorter and sharper highlighting the main points. To reflect on one thing you said though, at the begining you were highly energised arriving at this fantastic place, full of promising intention to surely come away with a great tree, but after trudging around in the rain for hours and coming away with nothing, i know is deflaiting. Its all part of the journey hey 🙂 on the other hand, It can be too easy to buy material that after when we come home and our over enthusiasm calms down, we feel, perhaps we shouldnt have bought that tree, its not right for me just now. Its good to be decerning as you were, you knew what you were looking for, for where you are on your bonsai journey. I hope this is well received, all the best to you🙏

Interesting tree Scott. I would be inclined to work this one as a semi-cascade and that last upward branch could be style as the apical region? One of those lower branches probably needs to be removed. OR you put some heavy duty wire on the main trunk and straighten that long branch as the new leader for an informal upright? Always tough to give advice when you can't see the tree up close :)

Scott research Eucalyptus growth from lignotubers when the top gets damaged dies back.

ITS A TUFF CALL , IF YOU WANT A SMALL TREE TAKE THE 3 LOWER BRANCES OFF TO ACCENTUATE THE TRUNK LINE , YOU COULD JIN THE TOP BRANCH , OR LEAVE THEM FOR A FEW YEARS AS SACRIFICIAL IF YOU WANT A BIGGER TREE .

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you could remove both the top and the one below it, raise up the left and create a really interesting literati. this could be enhanced further by adding a shari at a later date.