Pruning and Landscaping My Larch Forest, The Bonsai Zone, July 2021
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2021
- My Larch forest has vigorous growth in the apex that needs pruning and the overall conical shape of the trees needs tightening up!
I'm also detailing the forest floor with the newly collected rocks to improve the miniature look of the landscape.
To see previous videos of my Larch Forest, click on the playlist here...
• Larch Forest Progression
Check out the rock collection video here....
• Rock Collecting for Bo...
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Legend has it, he created a small forest for the wee folks. If you look really hard and at the right moment, one day will catch a wee folk running, dancing, and singing in the Larch forest.
Awesome!!
Shrink me down and let me go hiking in that forest! The new rocks really suit the landscape, loving it! ❤️
Thanks Aija, give Varg a pet for me!
This might be my favourite planting of yours
Thanks Dairis! It's looking very natural!
Nigel this his project is beautiful I follow him and I see his evolution every year ...
congratulations for the dedication and professionalism ... you are reference for me and for thousands of Bonsai lovers...
strong embrace my friend.
I do love this group, it is always a pleasure to see it develop. As a girl born and bred in the dry Aussie bush, this is not a landscape I recognise, but gee, I want to go for a walk and explore! And your birthday rocks fit right in like the landscape was waiting for them to appear.
Thanks Rebecca, I hope it gave you a feel for hiking in Canada!
Such a beautiful landscape....
Feeling like mother nature herself created forest in the tray.....
Very realistic forest landscape design... 👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you so much 😀
The new rocks and the meticulous pruning have made what was beautiful, even more spectacular...
It's great when a planting reaches the point where it's basically finished. Now it's just fine touches.
Wow, looks fantastic Nigel. I think it is show worthy now! 🏆🏅🥇The larch forest is still my favorite, always a winner in my book.
Thanks Jay!!!
Hi Nigel, this is my favorite forest Penjing/Landscape planting ever!!! you have really captured the essence of the forest in miniature and you are a master at putting these together. I love the new rocks and their placement they enhance the forest floor tremendously!!! Great work Nigel!!!
Looks beautiful with the new rocks.
Thanks Birgitte, I knew I'd have a use for all those rocks!!
Damn Nigel you are really good at forests!
Really nice!
Thanks Harmann, I'm always learning!
@@TheBonsaiZone You're far too modest Nigel! Lol! Seriously, you do have a special touch when it comes to forest plantings! This Larch forest is one of my all-time favorites! I could live in this forest! Lisa
You’ve taken your larch forest from outstanding to Masterpiece. Wow.
I love your Larch forest. It's what drew my attention to your channel years ago. And I continue to watch is progress with keen anticipation. Thank you for sharing it with us!!!
That forest is gorgeous! The change in landscape upped it a notch! Well done. :)
The first new rock looked like a face for a while. The forest looks lovely.
You brought me back to the island I camped on in Quetico, especially now with the new rocks. This forest looks great. I want my tent to be pitched right in between those trees!
Thanks David, the landscape has a natural feel to it, it takes me back in time too!
Ah Nigel you broke my heart by removing that stairs😢 I was following this project and was obsessed with that stairs, because they seemed very cozy and welcoming to me😅
Sorry, no more stairway to heaven, you have to climb up the rocks to get there now!!
Ahah yep that’s true! Every way I have a lot of screenshots of those stairs😂 will use them for my illustrations. I’m glad you like with a stones more now, every way they are cool. I have one favorite stone in your new collection and can’t wait till you’ll use that one🤗
Massive change in it. This has got to be one of your favorites, and masterpieces. 👍👍
I am amazed how you are able to keep the main tree in check as good as you do! An on-going struggle against thickening branches i the upper part, potential inversed taper and an apex that just want to grow wild lol. The middle and lower part are just fantastic.
Thanks Tybold, I'm hoping to keep the apex of the trees in check over the upcoming years. I do have enough height in the trees to replace the apex if I have to.
The new rocks fit the planting very well and the forest looks fantastic. Very miniature!
I like the idea of a shore on the right, so maybe some sand there would look good, too.
So beautiful Mr. Saunders!!!!! Thanks for taking the time to share!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
🌳This is a masterpiece Nigel🌳
I love the Larch Forest videos the most.🍃
Thanks Kati!!
Well done. I see such forests here in Styria when I go for a walk in the mountains. Really very natural!
Nice to hear that Holger, thanks!!!
28oist? 😂 just kidding. This forest is the most beautiful you have, in my opinion. Taking out the stairs and replacing it with the rocks made it so much better! I have only started with bonsai a couple of years ago, and I will have to wait a looooong time for anything to look nearly as good … if that can ever happen! Love your work and videos! 💕 🌳 💕 🌳 💕🌳
Thanks Chris, the landscape has evolved over the years and is getting better!
It looked good before, but the new collection of rocks really fits your theme for that display. Took it to the next level.
Thanks Ed, it was fun work, the afternoon just disappeared!
That part where he says “reminds me of being up north”. I was like “ dang your like 6+ hours north of me, and I’m in northern Minnesota.”🤣
Funny Dan, it's all relative lol!
Your Larch forest is really looking good. I like the new rock placements.
Wow, the landscape improved vastly! What a few different rocks and a bit of pruning can do... :)
Yes, quite a change in one afternoon!
Hi Nigel, big improvement for your landscaping. Every day it looks more like a real forest in miniature! Those moss bushes are there from a long time, it's awesome
Awesome forest. New rocks work well
Thanks Matt!
I absolutely adore this forest. You executed this masterfully
Beautiful work Nigel
I supper love this one and the rocks just so match with them today.
Hope myself could create one like this🥰🥰🥰
Thanks Cherie, I still have a lot of refinement work with the moss, but I'll do that before a bonsai show!
@@TheBonsaiZone You are the master in every way and I like the moss bushes, they are lovely how about the moss been covered in the snow at the winter time?
@@CherieChi The moss seems to stay green throughout the winter. It's amazing. It does go a little brown at the edges, but overall it stays healthy even at -25 C!
@@TheBonsaiZone Really amazing, right? I wanna asking about this but I forgot and I didn't have person to ask lo^^. Your moss in the bonsai they are supper green and healthy I thought they got the nutrient from bonsai as well?
Wow, that came out great. I was skeptical about getting rid of the stairs, but you were right as always…the forest is better without it.
Thanks, no stairway to heaven anymore, to get there, you gotta climb!
I think the end result looks really great! Another achievement you can be proud of. Makes me think of some outcrops around here, and where I like to sit to take a break when out on a walk.
That's an AWESOME little forest!
Truly magnificent, great work!
Thank you Nigel.
Looks better than ever!
I have walked through a forest like this in Germany and it just took me right back there
Cool Mandie, you just described the essence of bonsai!
Thanks, Nigel!
Stunning forest landscape.
Thanks Johnny!!!
Excellent video. A landscape to follow as an example, is without a doubt my favorite of his collection. Thanks for sharing Greetings from Spain (Barcelona) and until the next video👍😄
Thanks Ferran!
Good twisted branches!
Thanks Vadym!!! Yes, some of the branches are looking good, they are lots that need improvement also!
Great success and one of your best Bosai !!!!!!!
Your Landscape looks stunning.
I"m currently working on a Sequoia Landscape and your work is so inspiring for me and my first project but I'm still struggling with that moss-covering.
Thanks for your content.
Greatings from Germany ✋🏻🙂
Nicely done. I really like your Larch forest planting.
Thanks Michael!!!
@@TheBonsaiZone I watch all of your videos, plus subscribe to loads of other bonsai channels. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and belong to a local club, the East Bay Bonsai Society (where I'm also a board member).
@@mhylton Cool, you're right into it!
Love this Forrest I think I’ve mentioned that a few times already
Thanks Fred, I'm in the same boat too!
Your Larch Forest is really stunning.💜
lovely forest
Dang Nigel. I’ve always liked those stairs over the years. ( I’m only 9:30 in) of course follow your inspiration. Your the one who has to look at it every day. lol. However you do have all those nice new rocks. It does look good tho. What’s everyone else think.
Your Larch forest is incredible, I'm thinking of building a Redwood forest with a river winding through it.
There's a trail here in GA called Pine Mountain, and those rocks make it look almost exactly like that! Beautiful! :)
Thanks Zack, glad you like the landscape!
The top part of the main tree’s trunk kind of looks like a pregnant lady holding her arms up, beautiful forrest
The new rocks add something very special :)
Best bonsai of you
Thanks Mas Bim Bolang!!
A very good job of yours with a very impressive result. Just great.
Thank you very much!
Amazing
Thanks Didier!
I wonder if there are people out there who can make specialized pots where you can have an area that is encased without drainage holes so that you can actually have water in it.
Nice!
Many thanks Stefan, you played a big part in creating this landscape!!! I can't wait until we meet again!
Love it
Thanks you Eleonora!
@@TheBonsaiZone I love forest so I make from fake trees forest. I don't know haw sand photo to You
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Looks really nice!
Do you buy moss the way it looks in this vedeo already, or do you grow it from seeds?
Thanks.
Hahaa i was waiting for you to eat a larch shoot, i have a larch myself and will probably the same when i prune in a few weeks time
I was in the fabric store Joannes and bought some green glass pebbles a little larger than sand, and as I watched you work on your forest I thought that the green glass sand/pebbles would look great at the bottom of your stream???? Simulating water, without the maintenance 🤷🏽♀️
wilderness
The oaks grew fast
Yes, they are doing really well! The mother tree is looking a bit sick this year. It is putting out a lot of acorns, the first time since I collected the seeds for the trees in the video. I'll have to collect more this fall!
The Larches look like Baseball Bats 👍 Getting thick towards the tops/tips everywhere.
You should probably cut away at the tips whenever you see that it developes multiple shoots, before they can grow out.
Definitely not my favorite project of yours. My favorite of the conifers is still the Birdsnest Spruce, which you try to kill by not preserving the deadwood. 😅
Yes, I'm hoping to improve the trees, utilizing back buds to improve both the branches and the trunks. It is very hard to keep the branches fine in the upper section of trees over 25 years, they tend to eventually thicken up. The tops of the tree will need replacing in time to help with this.
The Spruce is doing well and so far the deadwood is fine.
I disagree Enty Ropy your probably inexperienced at this art maybe try indoor plants first before being a Bonsai Master critic.
@@TheBonsaiZone I hope you did get it, that I was just a bit cynical towards the Birdsnest Spruce situation, I did not mean it absolutely seriously, I know it is doing well, and it might rot away and die or not. I know you are not trying to kill it, but also not putting much effort into preserving it either.
What I wanted to say with this baseball bat metaphor was that it is for most plants that you have obviously working well enough to let them grow out and then cutting them back, but for the larches as specimen it seems to be not a good idea, to not adapt to their growth pattern, they totally obviously do have specific requirements that you treat them different from your other trees, since they are in fact the only ones getting top heavy and turning into baseball bats like this.
You do know that other larch forests exist besides your own, and that they do not have the same problem, so you are just very obviously doing something wrong here, otherwise the problem would just not exist at all, right ?
If you keep on doing the same thing on and on without changing your approach, then nothing will change at all and ever.
It is just basic rationalism.
Hi nigel, what species of larch is it?
By next year you'll need to go back for more rocks.
Yes, and maybe some of those Elms too!
@@TheBonsaiZone You can't have to many of either.
what happen with your wiping willow?!!
what hapen to your wiping willow?!!
You dont wire right?
Very little, I prefer to grow the tree with clip and grow and use wire sparingly.
@@TheBonsaiZone isnt that the original bonsai art from china before it was called bonsai.
@@rosshopkins2063 Yes, the formal art of bonsai originated in China, it came to Japan in the 12th century.
I think i prefer it that way. I just don't understand the trees that take all the branch grafting and trunk chopping and wiring. To me it looks synthetic, like something from ikea.
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what happen with your wiping willow?!!
what happen with your wiping willow?!!
what happen with your wiping willow?!!
what happen with your wiping willow?!!
what happen with your wiping willow?!!
what happen with your wiping willow?!!
what happen with your wiping willow?!!