Thanks Becki, the amazing thing about the rocks is we just had a short walk from the parking lot and the rocks were there, just loose on the ground! I was expecting to have to chisel them out from the side of a hill!
Wonderful! That would be my kind of day too! Perfect, and some beautiful rocks! I really enjoyed seeing Stefan's bonsai. I really love what he is doing with them! Thanks for the tour! Lisa
Thank you for taking us along with you on this adventure. I can't wait to see how you are going use the rocks with your mini frosts. I agree with James comment. Stephen needs a channel. I really love his mini bonsai also can't get over how he manages to keep the moss in an amazing condition. 😊
Thanks Stefan for having us over, it was a wonderful day and we really enjoyed your company!! I'm hoping we can get together at least once a year. My wife loved the birdhouse!! The car certainly was full on the ride home. Everyone loved your trees, keep up the good work my friend!
Thanks for sharing Nigel, Stefans small trees were inspiring. I love the rocks too and wonder what kind of rock it is with those unique broad cracks on surface..
Excellent video Nigel really enjoyed it. As a Bonsai enthusiast l find seeing other people's tree collections, the nursery tour and the rock collecting all inspiring for my own Bonsai journey.
Happy birthday Nigel Sir! The road trip made your day,for us as well.Ray's Greenhouse was amazing!Stephen has some very good technique to growing tiny Bonsai.Enjoying all your videos which come frequently nowadays and we are happy watching them.Keep going 🙂👍
love stefans collection. my collections also getting over run by collected elms, they pop up everywhere, transplant so well, tolerate the drought, and form a canopy so fast, they just wana be bonsai so bad, its hard to keep up with them. another great episode Nigel :)
Wow Stephan! Do you TH-cam? He’s got some awesome stuff. That’s got to be all us Bonsai Zone fan boys dream. To have Nigel and Conor tell you how cool your plants and arrangements are. Nigel, what a score on the rocks👍.I really wanted to buy some of those pots to. I instantly saw atlas half a dozen I wanted. I l enjoy the road trips. Almost forgot “Happy Birthday Nigel!” 👍😁🎉🌺
Wow!… What a cracking bonsai nursery… The work that is planned on those pines would make an interesting transformation video… He even makes his own pots!…
Stefan REALLY does have some very fine moss and now that I know how Nigel gets his natural rocks, I'm gonna go on a little adventure of my own in the woods lol
Absolutely enjoyed this every aspect of this video! I've been wanting to work more geology into my bonsai through suiseki, but most of my collection that are large enough for root over rock are limestone based. I do have some igneous based stone from my time at field camp in college, but nowhere near the amount of texture as the stones you collected. Keep up the excellent work with all of your videos and I'm always looking forward to your next upload!!
Great rocks! I think they look great just as they are on your table. It looks like a rocky landscape. I guess the pots would look fantastic on their own in a pot as a mountainous landscape, and they'll surely add to your Bonsai landscapes :)
Hello from Lakeland, Florida. Can you guys make a short video about how to bake the bread. Looks delicious. Nice video, I like those road trips adventures.
Steffan guy has a youtube channel ? i liked the nigel hair plant :-) all my friends i show your videos do mention your hair,, its like, nigels trademark after the rootrake i think =) maybe even more so :-) cool rocks. they was here before all trees anyone alive today ever saw. they will be here after all tree any of us will ever see has passed on. if only they could talk
Home made sourdough bread. The best birthday cake invented! And the day just keeps getting better. Happy birthday. (My son, who shares the day with you, had to "make do" with a chocolate fudge cake - he thinks it is a good exchange!)
16:12 pause it I swear there is someone looking out at you from the rock Stefan has some really fantastic specimens that guy has some skills!! I sense more to come from Stefan!! Keep up Nigel so much to see!!
Happy belated birthday,! Do you know what the name of the type of stones you collected? Also, you said Ray doesn’t sell the trees he has. What does he do with them all?
He does sell his trees, but his nursery isn't open to the public, you would have to contact Ray for a visit. He plants trees and gardens for the MTO. You would have to contact him through the Toronto Bonsai Society.
What a wonderful video! Enjoyed the visits along the way on your road trip. Your friend, Stefan, truly has an "eye" for the mame. What is the composition of the rocks collected? Granite?
The rocks look volcanic. I thought those were typical of your area before you mentioned "the ordinary rounded ones that look boring". I must say I was a little offended by calling the ordinary rocks boring. Well, I'm not a bonsai person and I happen to like ordinary rounded rocks. There are so many colors in them. My yellow sedum has been the big joy of this summer. It is flowering beautifully and it looks great between the rounded rocks. They like each other and they are not boring at all. Yes, watering rocks looks crazy. As if you believed that they grow bigger that way. :D
Sorry Liisa, poor choice of words, rounded rocks do look awesome with the right theme! The rocks with all the textures and features tend to look more like miniature rocks and can give a planting a better scale value!
Hi Nigel!! You failed to tell us the most important thing about yesterday: Did you remember your bread? An idea for you or your other viewers: Aquarium rocks have superb textures that can be used for bonsai, incase they don't have access to rocks like the ones you collected on your trip. Have a great weekend everyone!!
Nigel:: Rock Glen conservation area allows fossil collection, if you ever get the urge to spend a weekend looking for rocks to root. or even interesting highlights for your pots.
@@TheBonsaiZone IIRC it is in Cottage Country [UK viewers should behave, actual cottages are involved] So I figure you can find a duck friendly camp ground, and probably some new friends if you shop around. No need to wait in line for a space at the actual park.
Nigel, I have a few photos of my pencil cactus bonsai...wel kind of a bonsai....the pot is too big, that I would love to send you. How can I send them?
I'm from India I really like bonsai and wanted to do one so I planted ficus religiosa ,and the worst thing is people don't allow us to grow ficus trees nearby home because they believe that they brings bad luck so I was forced to remove it. 😡😡😡😡
Stephen needs a channel showing his methods. His attention to detail on those tiny compositions is awesome!
“Everyone needs a Nigel watching over the trees” :-)
Nice one and happy birthday!
"Well thanks man!" Haha. Now I know I have found my people.
Stefan is some kind of Druid or something, guy has the touch.
Thank you for taking us with you! 🙂 Stefan's tiny trees were especially nice to see, I hope we'll see some of Connor's marvellous collection soon too!
Glad you enjoyed the tour Oliver!
What a wonderful day you've had! Ryan's pots are beautiful! Stephans trees were awesome and it was nice to see Connor too.
Happy birthday!
Amazing how everyone has their own bonsai style. Really liked Stefan’s trees. Great birthday 🥳
I love the "Nigel watching over the trees".
And I'm happy to see Connor again on your video. I hope he'll start his own channel soon!
Such an amazing trip, and the individuals are simple amazing people, Such a beauty blessing, and the scenery is beyond comprehension!!
Cool rocks and Stefan has some great looking trees with fantastic moss. HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!!! Nigel at 39 years old.
Thanks Tom!!!!
Wow! So many goodies, the pots were stunning, Stephan's trees were gorgeous and that moss!! Amazing 👏 And I have such rock envy Nigel 😍xx
Thanks Becki, the amazing thing about the rocks is we just had a short walk from the parking lot and the rocks were there, just loose on the ground! I was expecting to have to chisel them out from the side of a hill!
Wonderful! That would be my kind of day too! Perfect, and some beautiful rocks! I really enjoyed seeing Stefan's bonsai. I really love what he is doing with them! Thanks for the tour!
Lisa
Thank you for taking us along with you on this adventure. I can't wait to see how you are going use the rocks with your mini frosts. I agree with James comment. Stephen needs a channel. I really love his mini bonsai also can't get over how he manages to keep the moss in an amazing condition. 😊
My pleasure Nigel, It was a great day ( omg lol so many rocks!) !
Thanks Stefan for having us over, it was a wonderful day and we really enjoyed your company!! I'm hoping we can get together at least once a year. My wife loved the birdhouse!! The car certainly was full on the ride home.
Everyone loved your trees, keep up the good work my friend!
Thanks for sharing Nigel, Stefans small trees were inspiring. I love the rocks too and wonder what kind of rock it is with those unique broad cracks on surface..
Excellent video Nigel really enjoyed it. As a Bonsai enthusiast l find seeing other people's tree collections, the nursery tour and the rock collecting all inspiring for my own Bonsai journey.
Thank you for letting us follow your adventure! I loved this video so much🥰
That is a beautiful collection of limestone. They really bring a Canadian presentation to a composition.
Thanks Jon, it was worth the long trip to find them!
Happy birthday Nigel Sir! The road trip made your day,for us as well.Ray's Greenhouse was amazing!Stephen has some very good technique to growing tiny Bonsai.Enjoying all your videos which come frequently nowadays and we are happy watching them.Keep going 🙂👍
Happy Birthday Nigel! Thanks for sharing the day with us.
Those pine trees at the beginning and the tiny pots are great.
Yes, I finally bought one of Ray's pots!
love stefans collection. my collections also getting over run by collected elms, they pop up everywhere, transplant so well, tolerate the drought, and form a canopy so fast, they just wana be bonsai so bad, its hard to keep up with them. another great episode Nigel :)
dang, Stefans collection is amazing!
Wow Stephan! Do you TH-cam? He’s got some awesome stuff. That’s got to be all us Bonsai Zone fan boys dream. To have Nigel and Conor tell you how cool your plants and arrangements are. Nigel, what a score on the rocks👍.I really wanted to buy some of those pots to. I instantly saw atlas half a dozen I wanted. I l enjoy the road trips. Almost forgot “Happy Birthday Nigel!” 👍😁🎉🌺
Thanks Dan, a fantastic road trip for me, I really enjoyed it!
I LOVE those rocks! What what are they called?? Stephen's trees are amazing!
Happy birthday Nigel 🎉🎊🎂🎁
Happy Birthday Nigel! Looks like you had a great day.
Fantastic collection Nigel 👏🏻👏🏻
That looked like a very fun day!
What an adventurous and fun trip.
Ray is so cool.
Good to see Connor again
Happy birthday Nigel! Sorry I missed the live stream for this one. 🎂🎁🍰
Happy Birthday Nigel, great road trip.
Happy birthday, Nigel, beautiful rocks and overall a great trip, I loved the views from Ray's place.
the stones look great, they would be perfect for an aquascape.
Thanks Jakob, yes they would be great underwater too!
What a fun trip. Nothing like looking at hundreds of trees. Some great-looking pots as well. How was that bread?
Wow great video, details on the rocks you collected is really different. Everyone has a very good eye for different styles.
A fun day Ed!!!
Wow!… What a cracking bonsai nursery… The work that is planned on those pines would make an interesting transformation video… He even makes his own pots!…
Thanks for sharing, looked like a day well spent! Very interesting.
It was a lot of fun, thanks!
Stefan REALLY does have some very fine moss and now that I know how Nigel gets his natural rocks, I'm gonna go on a little adventure of my own in the woods lol
Haha "everyone should have a Nigel, watching over their trees" 😂 i will get one on my bench aswell 👍🏼 loved the video
Thanks J!
Absolutely enjoyed this every aspect of this video! I've been wanting to work more geology into my bonsai through suiseki, but most of my collection that are large enough for root over rock are limestone based. I do have some igneous based stone from my time at field camp in college, but nowhere near the amount of texture as the stones you collected. Keep up the excellent work with all of your videos and I'm always looking forward to your next upload!!
Happy birthday Nigel.
I'm always on the look out for rocks for bonsai!
Stefan sir has nice collection i m luvin it,nice moss
Nice roadtrip for your birthday Nigel, lots of rocks for your plants, as well as lots of ideas from visiting those places.
Thanks Toby, it was a really fun day and a full one, 17 1/2 hours total!
Alles gute zum 59. Geburtstag!
Thank you for sharing your Bonsai Wisdom, it is a pleasure to watch these Videos! Best Wishes from Germany.
Glad you liked the video Carl!
@@TheBonsaiZone I really did! Especially Steve's little ones really surprised me. So small but so much Character.
Happy Birthday Nigel :)
Great rocks! I think they look great just as they are on your table. It looks like a rocky landscape. I guess the pots would look fantastic on their own in a pot as a mountainous landscape, and they'll surely add to your Bonsai landscapes :)
Stefan has some nice moss..I have fly traps as well
Happy Birthday from Austria!
Super Nigel 👏👏👍👋🇫🇷
Fantastic stones. They should keep you busy for a while. Keep growing. Thanks
The stones look really great. It was definitely worth it.
Stephan has skills 😮
Good morning. I liked the video a lot; entertaining and enjoying every minute. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Spain (Barcelona) 👍😄
Happy Birthday!
Hello from Lakeland, Florida. Can you guys make a short video about how to bake the bread. Looks delicious. Nice video, I like those road trips adventures.
That sour dough was looking nice, @Conner
also, that guy rays trees and knowledge were top notch!
and 'if someone sees you watering rocks' comment had me laughing...id say
ryan perhaps
Thanks Tom, I'm sure I'll be back at Ray's place this summer again!
Looks like a you guy's had an awesome day. Those are really nice rocks.
Thank you very much, it will be hard to top a day like that!
Thanks, Nigel!
Steffan guy has a youtube channel ? i liked the nigel hair plant :-) all my friends i show your videos do mention your hair,, its like, nigels trademark after the rootrake i think =) maybe even more so :-)
cool rocks.
they was here before all trees anyone alive today ever saw.
they will be here after all tree any of us will ever see has passed on.
if only they could talk
Thanks Derrick!
Happy Birthday
This is just what I wanted to see thank you
my moss turns yellow and doesnt seem to ever actually hold, stefan's moss is so even and beautiful on all of his trees
collecting moss from sunny areas may help
Home made sourdough bread. The best birthday cake invented! And the day just keeps getting better. Happy birthday. (My son, who shares the day with you, had to "make do" with a chocolate fudge cake - he thinks it is a good exchange!)
That reminds me, I should pick out a cake for my birthday! The bread was awesome!
Those rocks look amazing like you we can’t get good rocks around here
Is Ray a membér of the Toronto bonsai society? I remember meeting him before in one of the meetings. Where is his nursery now?
Yes, Ray is a member, he is out near Bowmanville.
Nigel. those robin eggs are a beaut.
16:12 pause it I swear there is someone looking out at you from the rock
Stefan has some really fantastic specimens that guy has some skills!! I sense more to come from Stefan!!
Keep up Nigel so much to see!!
Thanks Scott, maybe I opened a portal to another dimension! It was such a great day, I almost forgot it was my birthday!
@@TheBonsaiZone so good to see you enjoying yourself amongst good people having a good time, a very happy birthday indeed!!
Awesome trip
Best birthday ever...except maybe when I was born?
@@TheBonsaiZone was it for your birthday?? I missed it🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️now it's too late to wish you happy birthday
Hi Nigel, where exactly is Ray's nursery? I'd love to grab some carpinus and ostrya from him.
Happy belated birthday,! Do you know what the name of the type of stones you collected? Also, you said Ray doesn’t sell the trees he has. What does he do with them all?
He does sell his trees, but his nursery isn't open to the public, you would have to contact Ray for a visit. He plants trees and gardens for the MTO. You would have to contact him through the Toronto Bonsai Society.
Great video!! What is rays nursery called? Is it open to the public? Thanks in advance
Connor getting jacked, thata boy
What a wonderful video! Enjoyed the visits along the way on your road trip. Your friend, Stefan, truly has an "eye" for the mame. What is the composition of the rocks collected? Granite?
I think it is a form of limestone, I tried looking it up, but there are a lot of different types of stone in that area!
The rocks look volcanic. I thought those were typical of your area before you mentioned "the ordinary rounded ones that look boring". I must say I was a little offended by calling the ordinary rocks boring. Well, I'm not a bonsai person and I happen to like ordinary rounded rocks. There are so many colors in them. My yellow sedum has been the big joy of this summer. It is flowering beautifully and it looks great between the rounded rocks. They like each other and they are not boring at all.
Yes, watering rocks looks crazy. As if you believed that they grow bigger that way. :D
Sorry Liisa, poor choice of words, rounded rocks do look awesome with the right theme! The rocks with all the textures and features tend to look more like miniature rocks and can give a planting a better scale value!
you guys must have been carolina squatting that car back with that load
We did hit rock bottom a few times!
Speaking of jack pines... how are those seedlings doing of the jack and sugar pines
They are doing really well, I'll be up potting them soon!
Hi Nigel!! You failed to tell us the most important thing about yesterday:
Did you remember your bread?
An idea for you or your other viewers:
Aquarium rocks have superb textures that can be used for bonsai, incase they don't have access to rocks like the ones you collected on your trip.
Have a great weekend everyone!!
The bread was awesome!!!!
Neat trip
Nigel:: Rock Glen conservation area allows fossil collection, if you ever get the urge to spend a weekend looking for rocks to root. or even interesting highlights for your pots.
Thanks Mike, good to know!!!
@@TheBonsaiZone IIRC it is in Cottage Country [UK viewers should behave, actual cottages are involved] So I figure you can find a duck friendly camp ground, and probably some new friends if you shop around. No need to wait in line for a space at the actual park.
My uncle Stefan 🥰
Cool, it was so nice meeting Stefan!! Such a great road trip for us!
Where are you buy rock and what where nursery located Bro..?? thanks
I was rock hunting for bonsai in the river all weekend!
A good place to find some nice ones, I hope!
Who's that man wearing a hat?
He owns awesome trees.
Our magnolias down here leaves are really big... There is one outside I'll measure a leaf tomorrow
I like 👍♥
How was the sour dough my ears picked up on that one I was a baker for 16 years and sour dough is my favourite bread to bake ....
It was awesome, the bread disappeared very quickly! I had mine with Swiss cheese!
@@TheBonsaiZone yummy
Where is this nursery located nigel?
Nigel, I have a few photos of my pencil cactus bonsai...wel kind of a bonsai....the pot is too big, that I would love to send you. How can I send them?
Hello Daze, here is my email....
thekwbonsaisociety@gmail.com
Thanks!
27:10 I love this little forest
Yes, some awesome trees!!
Buongiorno tanti auguri anche se in ritardo
Grazie mille!!!!
You can make some nice desert egypttheme with the pyramid rock (in the back of the table) like you are near pyramids.
Great idea!
what happened to your whipping willow?
Unfortunately it got weak from winter and slowly died over the summer.
Does Ray operate a public nursery? How do I find it?
No it is a private nursery, you would have to email me and I can give you his contact information!
thekwbonsaisociety@gmail.com
I'm from India I really like bonsai and wanted to do one so I planted ficus religiosa ,and the worst thing is people don't allow us to grow ficus trees nearby home because they believe that they brings bad luck so I was forced to remove it. 😡😡😡😡
Looks like Siberian Elm.
We'll have to find out!
I have to try giving my Stones water more offen
Just not after midnight!