What I like most about Peter Chan is he mixes traditional with innovative and the unconventional stressing that IF YOU like it then do what pleases you and ignore the criticism. I have learned so much from him and have done bonsai for almost 30 years, but was more traditional. I have changed my attitude and thinking considerably because of him. BRAVO!!!
I really respect that you can adapt your ways even after 30 years of traditional bonsais. So many people become conservative and don't change because they think everything they've done before was wasted energy. Adapt, overcome and do exactly what feels right in the moment.
what a great comment! even after 30 years! you can still learn more... traditional bonsai methods have always been a little intimidating to me... but Peter Chan has inspired me to give it a go again! I love bonsai so much.
I have half a dozen oak bonsai in training and your video has been very helpful in understanding how much root pruning they can handle. A couple are 28 years old now and I got them as seedlings from my fathers garden after he passed away suddenly at age 59. He was from Portsmouth in England and having these trees makes his memory stay alive.😊
do you mind making a video? simply in the state they are now - i know many people with forrests and am thinking about salvaging one young tree to try and make something out of it - so i know what i should look for maybe?
I just love oak trees. I live in Northern California and in the park behind my house there are 300 year old oaks. There are huge and the branches come down to the ground to give shade to their roots. With temperatures 100 degrees or 40 Celsius on summer they don’t die. They are nature’s cathedrals! They are spectaculars!
Come to Upstate South Carolina, I have 38 large trees in my 3/4 acre backyard. 3 types of oaks, poplar, cedar, holly, maple, sweetgum, crepe myrtle, pine. the amount of seedlings that come up every year are astonishing.
@@greenvilleobserver9431 I have 1/3 acre in Minnesota and I can't keep up with all the babies of my large oaks and sugar maples, that are about 100 years old.
I really love Englsih oaks ! As well as they two oak shoots that Peter dug out for me in November, I also took about 10 acorns from the massive tree in front of the nursery car park. Of those acorns, 8 are now growing beautifully. so I have ten English oaks well on their way to becoming future oak bonsai, thanks to Peter and Herons!
Thank you for showing us some of the more practical side. I would love to see more of this. Especially how you cut and develop the trunks of field stock like this.
Please tell Padmapriya hi from me. My name's Jack and I used to work in the health food shop with him. I watch your videos and what a coincidence to suddenly recognise him!
I love all your videos.I'm 66, just start this lovely world 2 months ago, thanks to your videos.Greetings from Capri, a small island in Italy.ps,a big thank you to your assistant.
I love your videos so much, I have been trying to do my own bonsai for the last few years, one is now getting long and sparse, so I will now be taking it out of its pot for the first time, it's 7yrs old. I'm going to cut it back, tease the roots and hopefully it will come back better than before. I don't find any of your videos boring, I'm now I'm my 40s but have loved gardening since my teens and adapting large plants and trees to pots as my gardens is small. My biggest problem has been the hot summers we've had here in the UK the last couple of years, our garden is fully south facing, the only shade coming from a hardy twisted willow but it doesn't give much shade. The last two summers hit my plants hard, especially my bonsai maples; burning the leaves and killing a lot of branches of my favourite one. I cut them back and 75% was saved but it's now lost its lovely shape. I've started watching your wonderful insightful videos and hope to make it into a better bonsai than previously. Many Thanks
Loved that your doing a video on oaks. They're some of my favorites and don't get enough love in the bonsai world. Also the resolution looks much better in this video!
Love this video. I found an oak 3 years ago in my garden as well. A squirrel brought it from the neighbours yard with massive several hundred years old oaks in it. Instead of wasting it for lawn I decided to put it in a pot and hope for a nice tree in 30 years as well.
The mundane and 'boring' work where all the details are to be found. Much appreciated in an instructional video! I was scared of bonsai roots my whole life until I see these videos. No more.
On the topic of recording everything even the mundane... this is a video I have been hoping to find for quite some time and I was searching your channel for oak bonsai. So thank you for recording this moment!
I start to develop oaks now that I have my two maples. I belive that Peter and me are connected because every time that I ask question to my self, Peter answer to it in a video fews days later... 😍 Love you little tree lovers 🇲🇫
Thank you for showing this procedure. Many of us do this for our bonsai at home. First grow in the yard then to a pot. I enjoy seeing what they will do in 10 years if i take care. Happy Holidays!
Hello from the Jersey Shore ! What a great project thanks for sharing your expertise and creativity with us ! I am always on the lookout for trees just like this oak, growing between fences, or mixed in with the brush !
Dera sir, hier vanuit België, willen wij u feliciteren met de prachtige bonsai s die u maakt, u heeft ons al veel geleerd, en we proberen zo goed mogelijk om zelf een bonsai te maken, dank je wel om zoveel kunst te tonen , wij maken een diepe buiging voor u, dank je wel, groetjes uit België, Conny
I have two x 200 year old oak trees in my garden, from them I have now got 1x 5 year old ,just starting its first year of shaping and 7 that are 3 year old ,thickening up , 1 acorn from last year and surprisingly 1 that looks like the small one Peter showed at the end. thank you Peter
Bout a year ago I picked up an oak tree seed amongst hundreds of seeds. Thought it looked cool and figure why not throw it it some soil. I paid it no mind since I planted it in one of my mother’s pots (since she waters her plants everyday). To my surprise I noticed a little plant sprouting months later. I was shocked the seed sprouted given the unfavorable conditions. Just soil and water with no prep work whatsoever. Really made me think a lot about life and it’s will to persevere. So here I am to prepare it for a long winter and hopefully a healthy and prosperous life.
My son had put some acorns in a plastic bag one day we visited a garden somewhere. The bag got thrown in a coat cupboard. A year later I tidied the cupboard and there were two oak saplings bursting their guts out in the bag! Life is strong.
Despite the surely often difficult work, it must be a very satisfying feeling to work with such beautiful creatures. Happy who is allowed to do such a job.
I like what you are doing, as you explain quite a bit about Bonsai trees and their needs. I also like that you are not so doing so much sculpting of the tree's, that involve carving and burning the trees like another TH-camr I saw. As I started two silk fan tree's from seed, about 3 years ago and have been learning with them. So your video's are helping me to understand a little more about how to care for the tree's. So thank you for that. And I like that you are working with tree species, like Oak's which grow naturally around the area where I live as does Cedar, pine, Box Elm and a few others.
I have always loved bonsai, and this channel has pushed me to do my own, I have a ficus I got for 6 dollars and a red pine (which needs time to grow) for free. I’m also trying to propagate a Japanese maple from a cutting, which is proving to be quite difficult. I love the attitude of saving money and working with what you have 🙏
Good video. Makes me want to get back into the hobby once I get moves. Squirrels ruined a lot of what I had before but I was waiting for Heron's helper to say "Yes, master" like Igor in Young Frankenstein but Heron's helper sure looked like he knew what he was doing! I bought a house in Colorado that was attempting to flourish in the middle of the lawn. After a few years I noticed it, dug it up and it sprang to life. It was short and stout and interesting..
Really inspiring. Thank you for showing that you can adapt and some rules can be amended. I'm planning to have 2 outdoor oak bonsai from the acorns of and ancient oak my late father loved. I plan to nurture these bonsai and have one for myself and one for my brother so we can bring new life in his memory
Thank you. Living in California we have many oaks and I found some seedlings by a water faucet drain, with lots of debris. Some still have their acorns attached. I am excited to see what you have done. I am most grateful to learn that one does not use akadama for all trees, as I have been having more success with our native soil and mixing it with peat in some cases. Yes, I really appreciate the dedicated boring maintenance "stuff".
wOw !! Nice huge small oak tree😊👍and a nice video !!! i have also an oak tree in a pot ..i found it in my garden 1 year ago .. and now there come new buds .. so it did survive the winter.. i do like it so much!!! ❤💚❤
Don't clean your gutters for awhile, you'll have all the little trees you want👍 (Ps: I have a lot of respect for the talent this takes, before anyone thinks otherwise)
Did anyone else's mind explode when he's like turn the tree ightly counter clockwise and boom its like 1000 times better and you have no clue how thats possible
Thank you for this video. Having a regular spot on a campsite in the dunes I was figuring how to make my surroundings a bit more interesting. So I planted a oak, and some other kinds, from the woods a bit from there planning to make a bonsai style tree with a similar hight shown in the video. Cheers, Onno
I just found your channel not too long ago and I find ALL of the videos very interesting. I have learned so much in such a short time! Wish I could visit the nursery. Unfortunately, I'm in California....... Thank you for making these videos!
‘This pot looks a bit big, mmmm, but the tree will be more comfortable in this pot.’ That’s why i love this hobby. It can be seen to be brutal and harming, but experts down to the general hobbyist gain through this interest a greater respect for nature/trees.
Hello Peter, thank you so much for your wonderful videos! I already learned so much from you by watching them! As you were showing the young oak I was wondering if you could make a video especially about how to start young oaks off? The oak is my favorite tree and I would love to learn how to make a bonsai from it from scratch... Many greetings from Austria, Kathi!
What I like most about Peter Chan is he mixes traditional with innovative and the unconventional stressing that IF YOU like it then do what pleases you and ignore the criticism. I have learned so much from him and have done bonsai for almost 30 years, but was more traditional. I have changed my attitude and thinking considerably because of him. BRAVO!!!
you would love the videos from Walter Pall
Yes, I knew absolutely nothing, but already feel confident to have a go
I really respect that you can adapt your ways even after 30 years of traditional bonsais. So many people become conservative and don't change because they think everything they've done before was wasted energy. Adapt, overcome and do exactly what feels right in the moment.
what a great comment! even after 30 years! you can still learn more... traditional bonsai methods have always been a little intimidating to me... but Peter Chan has inspired me to give it a go again! I love bonsai so much.
I have half a dozen oak bonsai in training and your video has been very helpful in understanding how much root pruning they can handle. A couple are 28 years old now and I got them as seedlings from my fathers garden after he passed away suddenly at age 59. He was from Portsmouth in England and having these trees makes his memory stay alive.😊
do you mind making a video? simply in the state they are now - i know many people with forrests and am thinking about salvaging one young tree to try and make something out of it - so i know what i should look for maybe?
That’s amazing!
I just love oak trees. I live in Northern California and in the park behind my house there are 300 year old oaks. There are huge and the branches come down to the ground to give shade to their roots. With temperatures 100 degrees or 40 Celsius on summer they don’t die. They are nature’s cathedrals! They are spectaculars!
Nice to have an articulate and clearly-spoken commentary.....the expertise is taken for granted. Thank You!
You know you have a lot of bonsai when you can say “ i stumbled around this beautiful oak” in your own field
Come to Upstate South Carolina, I have 38 large trees in my 3/4 acre backyard. 3 types of oaks, poplar, cedar, holly, maple, sweetgum, crepe myrtle, pine. the amount of seedlings that come up every year are astonishing.
It's a tree nursery after all. It's like saying "you have a lot of cars" to a car dealer :D
@@greenvilleobserver9431 I have 1/3 acre in Minnesota and I can't keep up with all the babies of my large oaks and sugar maples, that are about 100 years old.
@@greenvilleobserver9431 should come see my 12foot garden!!
@@greenvilleobserver9431 Oh la la...
I love how you show us how to get big bonsai trees without waiting 50 years!
I really love Englsih oaks ! As well as they two oak shoots that Peter dug out for me in November, I also took about 10 acorns from the massive tree in front of the nursery car park. Of those acorns, 8 are now growing beautifully. so I have ten English oaks well on their way to becoming future oak bonsai, thanks to Peter and Herons!
I gave it a shot with acorns:
th-cam.com/play/PLLfXUppdVxvxDIz5zp9cmIBEJq0jjObXS.html
grts
K
Thank you for including us Peter, I always love these seeing these mundane tasks
Thank you. Living in California I have wondered about making oak bonsai. This is perfect. We have about 300 species of oaks.
You have very hardworking assistant. He loves to work with a bonsai master like you i think :)
2 bonzai 4 senpai?
That has a very nice natural shape . There’s plenty of fine roots as well. A great video
I just started bonsai you are the best teacher I've seen on here ive learning from you w every video
Thanks so much
Thank you for showing us some of the more practical side. I would love to see more of this. Especially how you cut and develop the trunks of field stock like this.
I gave it a shot with acorns:
th-cam.com/play/PLLfXUppdVxvxDIz5zp9cmIBEJq0jjObXS.html
grts
K
Please tell Padmapriya hi from me. My name's Jack and I used to work in the health food shop with him. I watch your videos and what a coincidence to suddenly recognise him!
Hello Jack, I will certainly pass on your greetings to Padmapriya, I remember you too from the health food shop. So nice to see you here.
Awesome! I love the coincidence!
I love all your videos.I'm 66, just start this lovely world 2 months ago, thanks to your videos.Greetings from Capri, a small island in Italy.ps,a big thank you to your assistant.
I'm 66, started 18 mths ago, now have over 30 trees, loving it, wish I'd started years ago🤔never had time
The guy doing the pruning has a killer gig I'm jealous! 🌱🌿🌲🌿🌱
I love your videos so much, I have been trying to do my own bonsai for the last few years, one is now getting long and sparse, so I will now be taking it out of its pot for the first time, it's 7yrs old. I'm going to cut it back, tease the roots and hopefully it will come back better than before. I don't find any of your videos boring, I'm now I'm my 40s but have loved gardening since my teens and adapting large plants and trees to pots as my gardens is small. My biggest problem has been the hot summers we've had here in the UK the last couple of years, our garden is fully south facing, the only shade coming from a hardy twisted willow but it doesn't give much shade. The last two summers hit my plants hard, especially my bonsai maples; burning the leaves and killing a lot of branches of my favourite one. I cut them back and 75% was saved but it's now lost its lovely shape. I've started watching your wonderful insightful videos and hope to make it into a better bonsai than previously. Many Thanks
nice to see your helper at work!
Love the oaks. I would hope to see more videos on the oak tree bonsais as there aren't many videos out there on them.
Loved that your doing a video on oaks. They're some of my favorites and don't get enough love in the bonsai world. Also the resolution looks much better in this video!
I do enjoy your preference for big bonsai, I wont live long enough to see my potted oaks get that size! They are the size of the second one.
I have just re watched this , as I do love Oaks, Wonderful tree and one I will look out for on my visit
I've always loved this art. The Japanese are in a class of their own. So much respect for their discipline.
I love your nursery. What a great place to work. If you love plants that is, and I do.
Love this video. I found an oak 3 years ago in my garden as well. A squirrel brought it from the neighbours yard with massive several hundred years old oaks in it. Instead of wasting it for lawn I decided to put it in a pot and hope for a nice tree in 30 years as well.
The mundane and 'boring' work where all the details are to be found. Much appreciated in an instructional video! I was scared of bonsai roots my whole life until I see these videos. No more.
On the topic of recording everything even the mundane... this is a video I have been hoping to find for quite some time and I was searching your channel for oak bonsai. So thank you for recording this moment!
Peter Chang, you are the biggest bungler what I have seen in my life
I’ve been waiting for a video on this since I saved a young oak from our local park. Thank you very much for this!
Fabulously informative Peter! My favourite tree is my oak!
I start to develop oaks now that I have my two maples. I belive that Peter and me are connected because every time that I ask question to my self, Peter answer to it in a video fews days later... 😍
Love you little tree lovers 🇲🇫
Peter a lovely Oak with the chop becoming a feature, looking forward to seeing this tree in two/three years time.
BONKSAI?
Thank you for showing this procedure. Many of us do this for our bonsai at home. First grow in the yard then to a pot. I enjoy seeing what they will do in 10 years if i take care. Happy Holidays!
Strong and healthy specimen, a splendid future bonsai indeed Peter..thx for sharing and can't wait for the next one..cheers
Oaks make lovely bonsai subjects. 😀
Hello from the Jersey Shore ! What a great project thanks for sharing your expertise and creativity with us ! I am always on the lookout for trees just like this oak, growing between fences, or mixed in with the brush !
I would love to have that tree from Mr. Peter it's another one of his famous beautiful works of art Jesse
Dera sir, hier vanuit België, willen wij u feliciteren met de prachtige bonsai s die u maakt, u heeft ons al veel geleerd, en we proberen zo goed mogelijk om zelf een bonsai te maken, dank je wel om zoveel kunst te tonen , wij maken een diepe buiging voor u, dank je wel, groetjes uit België, Conny
Wonderful. Just the inspiration I needed for my oak projects. Thank you
Peter i just got a red oak and a red maple the other day. I appreciate every video you do and your knowledge is great... Bless you sir
I have two x 200 year old oak trees in my garden, from them I have now got 1x 5 year old ,just starting its first year of shaping and 7 that are 3 year old ,thickening up , 1 acorn from last year and surprisingly 1 that looks like the small one Peter showed at the end. thank you Peter
Brilliant tutorial video. Beautiful Oak. Mr Chan is so relaxing to watch and a great teacher. Thank you for sharing.
What a pleasure to learn from such a joy to see the transition
Thank you Peter - I am planning on starting an Oak off for my first grandchild expected In March and you are and continue to be the inspiration I need
Start several. They're finicky in pots.
so many thanks from France for you videos !
Bout a year ago I picked up an oak tree seed amongst hundreds of seeds. Thought it looked cool and figure why not throw it it some soil.
I paid it no mind since I planted it in one of my mother’s pots (since she waters her plants everyday). To my surprise I noticed a little plant sprouting months later.
I was shocked the seed sprouted given the unfavorable conditions. Just soil and water with no prep work whatsoever. Really made me think a lot about life and it’s will to persevere.
So here I am to prepare it for a long winter and hopefully a healthy and prosperous life.
My son had put some acorns in a plastic bag one day we visited a garden somewhere. The bag got thrown in a coat cupboard. A year later I tidied the cupboard and there were two oak saplings bursting their guts out in the bag! Life is strong.
Despite the surely often difficult work, it must be a very satisfying feeling to work with such beautiful creatures. Happy who is allowed to do such a job.
The dream is to learn from a master, loving these videos!
Thanks for this video! It always amazes me how rough you can be with these plants.
It's a year later now, have you got an update?! Would love to see another year's growth on this and what you've done this year.
Yes 2 years later, I want to see it now too
Yes Peter let's see this tree today? Is it still alive?????
I first watched this video way back in March when I developed an interest in bonsai,watching again now as I have successfully germinated 3 or 4 oaks
Again Thank You Master”P”
You are the Man!!!🙏🏿
im glad that a master gets help. love your channel :)
Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. You make me more confident to grow my trees, from wild seebling found in garden or forest nearby.
I like what you are doing, as you explain quite a bit about Bonsai trees and their needs. I also like that you are not so doing so much sculpting of the tree's, that involve carving and burning the trees like another TH-camr I saw. As I started two silk fan tree's from seed, about 3 years ago and have been learning with them. So your video's are helping me to understand a little more about how to care for the tree's. So thank you for that. And I like that you are working with tree species, like Oak's which grow naturally around the area where I live as does Cedar, pine, Box Elm and a few others.
Thanks! So informative. You obviously know your business.
It might be mundane for these guys, but this is teaching me how to do it better myself. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for sharing peter just beautiful
I have always loved bonsai, and this channel has pushed me to do my own, I have a ficus I got for 6 dollars and a red pine (which needs time to grow) for free. I’m also trying to propagate a Japanese maple from a cutting, which is proving to be quite difficult. I love the attitude of saving money and working with what you have 🙏
I've run across more than a few oaks that I now have a reason to dig up. Thanks!
the bandicoot and the bensai are well farned together in the behowers of banshast, rriight?
@@Digalog yep
Those are the best gloves ever!! Perfect all around uses👍👍
Would enjoy seeing this oak a couple years later. Thank you for this lesson. Texas
lovely, a real pleasure to watch an artist at work.
Good video. Makes me want to get back into the hobby once I get moves. Squirrels ruined a lot of what I had before but I was waiting for Heron's helper to say "Yes, master" like Igor in Young Frankenstein but Heron's helper sure looked like he knew what he was doing! I bought a house in Colorado that was attempting to flourish in the middle of the lawn. After a few years I noticed it, dug it up and it sprang to life. It was short and stout and interesting..
I love it. I have a baby sapling oak and this makes me hopeful
Excellent demonstration on how to work with a Bonsai. I am in the process of doing an oak Bonsai hence researched and you came about 👍🏽
I always learn something new with each video thanks Peter👍👍🇵🇷
Really inspiring. Thank you for showing that you can adapt and some rules can be amended.
I'm planning to have 2 outdoor oak bonsai from the acorns of and ancient oak my late father loved. I plan to nurture these bonsai and have one for myself and one for my brother so we can bring new life in his memory
Everything about what you do is amazing
That is one beautiful tree, you never know and I guess that is the excitement of Bonsai.
Thank you. Living in California we have many oaks and I found some seedlings by a water faucet drain, with lots of debris. Some still have their acorns attached. I am excited to see what you have done. I am most grateful to learn that one does not use akadama for all trees, as I have been having more success with our native soil and mixing it with peat in some cases. Yes, I really appreciate the dedicated boring maintenance "stuff".
Nothing is boring if you are interested to learn I enjoy every video good job love it 👌
Thank you for making these videos.
wOw !! Nice huge small oak tree😊👍and a nice video !!!
i have also an oak tree in a pot ..i found it in my garden 1 year ago .. and now there come new buds .. so it did survive the winter.. i do like it so much!!! ❤💚❤
Again, a very good demonstration and many tricks, thanks.
Wow thats a large tree, too good 👌👌👌
"can you do it single handed?"
"yep"
*uses head*
11:30
HAHAHAHAHAHA
I love you're bonsai video's from the Netherlands
Very nicely done, your like a johnny apple seed of miniature tree ART
Don't clean your gutters for awhile, you'll have all the little trees you want👍
(Ps: I have a lot of respect for the talent this takes, before anyone thinks otherwise)
Due to its humor and realism I award this comment ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
These guys have an incredible eye for detail, amazing.
Thanks peter and friend for a lovely video on the oak godbless
I'd love to work for Peter, the amount you could learn would be fantastic
got my first oak yamadori today love it. Thanks alot for your videos I appreciate it alot and learnt so much already. Please never stop :(
I admire the work of you and your colleague... hats off to you guys 🎩
Did anyone else's mind explode when he's like turn the tree ightly counter clockwise and boom its like 1000 times better and you have no clue how thats possible
Thankyou for sharing this amazing tree. Love the videos
Thank you so much for posting this I was just wondering how an oak would do as bonsai. Very good!
Your videos bring me so much joy.
Thank you for this video. Having a regular spot on a campsite in the dunes I was figuring how to make my surroundings a bit more interesting. So I planted a oak, and some other kinds, from the woods a bit from there planning to make a bonsai style tree with a similar hight shown in the video. Cheers, Onno
Fabulous Mr. Peter!
I’m still yet to add an Oak tree in my Bonsai collection. Such a beautiful and majestic tree... the Oak. Thanks for sharing
Would love to see this tree again in a future video.
I just found your channel not too long ago and I find ALL of the videos very interesting. I have learned so much in such a short time! Wish I could visit the nursery. Unfortunately, I'm in California....... Thank you for making these videos!
That’s a gorgeous looking oak
I love it I am so grateful to learn from your experience - thank you!
‘This pot looks a bit big, mmmm, but the tree will be more comfortable in this pot.’ That’s why i love this hobby. It can be seen to be brutal and harming, but experts down to the general hobbyist gain through this interest a greater respect for nature/trees.
Hello from your new subscriber from India. I enjoy watching bonsai videos. I spend most of my time with my garden plants
6:30 that "Oh is it" is such a perfect blend between your native accent and English
Lovely! I would like to see what it looks like now.
Hello Peter, thank you so much for your wonderful videos! I already learned so much from you by watching them! As you were showing the young oak I was wondering if you could make a video especially about how to start young oaks off? The oak is my favorite tree and I would love to learn how to make a bonsai from it from scratch... Many greetings from Austria, Kathi!