Another fascinating tour! John really shows his excitement and passion in his hobby....and his stories behind each tree was so interesting. I could listen to him all day..lol. His specimens are beautiful! I love that you are venturing out to showcasing different subjects, crafts and hobbies in your channel. Thank you, Summer and John. :)
Haha I’ve already learnt every tree off by heart by doing this 🤣. Am growing out an olive, swamp cypress and Chinese maple in the garden at the moment though!
Very enjoyable video. John is quite the enthusiastic guest. Would love to see a video of him potting and wiring a new plant. Summer, your videos are terrific and great to watch. Btw, your camera person(s) are terrific too!!
As a subscriber of your channel and 2-year self-learning student of bonsai, I'm super pleased to see this. Travel permitting, you guys should definitely head down to Mirai or other professionals' bonsai gardens - there is so much to see and I feel you and Ryan Neil will have so much to nerd out about when it comes to horticulture. I know your work prior to youtube is also important and prolific - I'm sure you'd love the rigour and depth of bonsai.
Thank you so much for this lovely clip about bonsai with a real bonsai connaiseur in the name of John. I have several times rewounded and played so as to well assimilate the content. As a non American I also appreciate the very clear and without hard accent of the English spoken by both of you. Again thank you and my dream is to be able to pay both of you in the midst of your plants. However if ever you are here in my tiny island Mauritius, lost in the Indian Ocean do let me know as I could show you some of my bonsais and our lovely native flora.
One of your best Video.. 🙏 shirsashtang namskar to his art and the way he is involved with it. Touching person's feet to give him respect.... is the meaning of shirsashtang. namskar
Wow! What a dream! 🥺 This made my heart sing, as do all of your videos! I love listening and learning all of this information. Thank you for spreading and sharing this knowledge and beauty! Truly amazing! 😁💜
My parents had trouble with bears getting into their birdfeeders, too. They came up with a genius improvisation: They ran a cord across the trees overhead and created a pulley system. It looked like a high clothesline. They hung the bird feeders up just high enough that the bears couldn’t swat them down. The pulley system allowed them to bring them down to refill. The shepherd’s hooks don’t really work well if you have bears - we found one of our out in the woods and the feeder was covered in bite and claw marks.
Now I have a renewed interest in bonsais. I have many jacaranda seedlings (CA weather) in pots which need to be trained. John's love and enthusiam is contagious. I loved Summer's comment about what really makes a bonsai a bonsai, or a plant in a pot. I have a ficus benjamina which has been in a pot forever (20+ years) which I haven't manipulated too much, but I consider it my bonsai. Very interesting, thank you!
Was an excellent video. Wish you visited my bonsai garden though 😆😆. Loved how you touched feeding, root aireation, pruning topics. And John is so excited with adorable bonsais. Oh you can make stunning indoor bonsai with dwarf umbrella tree aka Schefflera. You should plant one for bonsai 😉. Loved the episode. 💚 🖖
Just putting it out there but he mentioned Rochester a few times, and that’s where the national exhibition is going to be next month. I doubt anyone will see this, but this is my main hobby, and it’s hold is relatively small and relatively fragile in the states. If you’re at all interested in bonsai, and you’re in the New York State area and you have $50 you should get a ticket. There will likely be some of the best specimens in the country, and there will definitely be almost every leading expert in the country as well as vendors selling material. I’m not affiliated with it, but I’m coming up from Texas and I’m sure those ticket sales and the interest they could generate would really be valuable to the people making it happen.
Very cool! I have two bonsai trees and one i hate and the other i just love.. I love all of these on his porch!! What a cool hobby.. I told my hubby that he should be lucky that I do Hoyas and not bonsai in terms of expenses.. Lol
John is adorable! Passionate and skillful! Check out Peter Chan fr Heron Bonsai TH-cam, he has a lot of videos and some are on landscape specimens. John did not mentioned the date and location of the bonsai show. I hope he wins!
I suppose you have to use specific wire to shape the bonsai because I tried to use a craft wire and as the tree grew the wire cut into the branches. I ended up removing the wire and now the branches of course have the imprints of the wire in them. Do you ever take the wire off? I don’t have a garage (just a basement) to house bonsai in the winter. Would it be okay in a cool basement (in the 60’s) or possibly outside protected from the harshest of winter temps (Iowa).
Usually aluminum or copper wires are used. Copper is used specifically on conifers. And yes, you definitely take wire off once the branches are set. A little bit of scaring is okay and common -- it will usually heal in a couple years. However be careful not to let it stay on too long or you'll get a candy cane stripe down your tree. In winter, your trees are more suseptible to the cold because bonsai pots are shallow and insulate worse than the ground. Your trees don't need to be protected from all frost, but yes it's a good idea to take them into some place where they won't get blasted during the coldest months.
@@richardperry9165 Thank you for your kind response. I have always loved the look of bonsai and tried to grow one or two myself with no luck. I have a ficus benjamina which I've propagated a few times and thought it could turn into a bonsai. I grow them as indoor outdoor plants. I figured if I can transform one of them into a neat design maybe I could try my hand at grow some other varieties of trees again.
@@brendakirk7250 Ficus benjamina make great tropical bonsai! I would say that they are a good first choice. My tips would be to use bonsai soil (as opposed to potting soil) and work on developing the tree's trunk.
Lovely interview Summer. John is absolutely wonderful, his passion and yours is a great motivator for me to trim some of my over grown shrubs as bonsai. 🤞🏻🪴❤️ I planted a small ginkgo tree in a bonsai planter this year to see if I can keep it alive, going out today to get better drainage for it. Thank you.
Wish you had asked about his going out to collect the trees. Are there permits needed? I imagine on private property, all that is needed would be permission. Can't imagine they want people going around ripping out trees whilly nilly, especially 100 year old trees. I mean they have been growing in that spot, on that rock for 100 years. Who is to say whether it is going to "last" or not. It must like it there.....I mean it has made it there this long.🌱
Permits are not needed on private property, but yes, if you're collecting in public areas, you apply, which isn't too laborious of a process depending on what you're collecting. The trees he has collected are common species.
I plan to do 'fake' bonsai with jade plants. I live in an apartment so that's my only option although I'm hoping as I gain confidence to do a real one on my small terrace.
Really enjoyed this, he needs his own channel! No offense but I think Summer inserted herself too much in the tour. @ 55:28 her response to his handmade pot was disappointing. Live and learn.
Hopefully John's a man that can handle a person's preference for matte finished vs shellaced planters. 😆 And let's also trust that if he were truly offended by me sharing a preference in his planters or my conversation with him, that we're good enough friends that he would tell me so.
I loved this episode. I myself am an artist and art historian but I started in biology. I actually am studying the literati and Chinese landscape painting and how they molded their own version of the world, rather than just copying nature. Very inspiring episode and loved the enthusiasm and connection he has for everything. hugs
Summer, you're so humble! I rely on your knowledge in my plant journey- and you just have to accept that you're a plant-genius! I love watching what you and Sander create!
I recommend you learn with cheap ficus microcarpa from a box store. They're tough, can be inside in warm weather, and they take to bonsai very well. Walmart and Lowe's usually have them. I would get a couple of the curve ones and not the fat rooted ones.
@@comfortablynumb9342oh yes!! That is the exact plant I have. I contained it in a small pot so that it wont grow large. planning to repot it in a nice planter then structure it soon.
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Only 2 minutes in and I can already see what a gem this man is 🥺💖
I love that plant nerds get to talk about their passion, we on the winning end by learning all the little tricks and tips.
this man seems so gentle and sweet... would love to learn from him!
Wow what a lovely word.. "My wife is an angel". I love bonsai plants... You are amazing you have lots of bonsai plants.
Another fascinating tour! John really shows his excitement and passion in his hobby....and his stories behind each tree was so interesting. I could listen to him all day..lol. His specimens are beautiful! I love that you are venturing out to showcasing different subjects, crafts and hobbies in your channel. Thank you, Summer and John. :)
And the camera person, Sander is that you?
John’s bonsai trees are as beautiful as his passionate personality, thank you for sharing this art! ❤️🙌
This is one of the most valuable and my favourite video I've come across . Thanks for sharing, Summer 💕
Summer reminds me of Princess Kate, bubbly and classy. John is just delightful. Loved going through his collection!
This gentleman has a beautiful collection of bonsai. Well done.
Okay, who's looking around their yard or house right now to see what they can cut into a bonsai? 😂 I certainly am!
Yeah I have some cottoneaster I think might work. 😊
Me, lol
I'm sharpening my pickaxe and shovel as I'm watching this
@@myteegeeful Hailing from Bangladesh, send me some cuttings 😆😆😆
Haha I’ve already learnt every tree off by heart by doing this 🤣. Am growing out an olive, swamp cypress and Chinese maple in the garden at the moment though!
Shout out to all of our angelic partners who “allow it”! 🤣
Mmm-hm, yeah I see where this is going. I'll allow it, but don't you dare bring that into the house...
This man's enthusiasm is refreshing and very captivating.
agreed!
Im really amazed with his passion🙏, Thank you Summer bringing this to us, I really love this content.
I was totally into this video! His passion in his creations really pulled me in. Wonderful issue!
What a passionate man, his eyes were glowing.
The BEST Bonsai- Ambassador !!
I'm a bonsai enthusiast. I enjoyed watching the whole 1hour and 4minutes 🥰
Sending love from the Philippines 💖
Very enjoyable video. John is quite the enthusiastic guest. Would love to see a video of him potting and wiring a new plant. Summer, your videos are terrific and great to watch. Btw, your camera person(s) are terrific too!!
As a subscriber of your channel and 2-year self-learning student of bonsai, I'm super pleased to see this. Travel permitting, you guys should definitely head down to Mirai or other professionals' bonsai gardens - there is so much to see and I feel you and Ryan Neil will have so much to nerd out about when it comes to horticulture. I know your work prior to youtube is also important and prolific - I'm sure you'd love the rigour and depth of bonsai.
This guest and episode was so lovely
Thank you so much for this lovely clip about bonsai with a real bonsai connaiseur in the name of John. I have several times rewounded and played so as to well assimilate the content. As a non American I also appreciate the very clear and without hard accent of the English spoken by both of you. Again thank you and my dream is to be able to pay both of you in the midst of your plants. However if ever you are here in my tiny island Mauritius, lost in the Indian Ocean do let me know as I could show you some of my bonsais and our lovely native flora.
One of your best Video..
🙏 shirsashtang namskar to his art and the way he is involved with it.
Touching person's feet to give him respect.... is the meaning of shirsashtang. namskar
Wow! What a dream! 🥺 This made my heart sing, as do all of your videos! I love listening and learning all of this information. Thank you for spreading and sharing this knowledge and beauty! Truly amazing! 😁💜
Such a great episode! John is so modest about his collection, its beautiful! :)
I just love how enthusiastic he is!!! Would love to discover his bonsais‘ in person 😍
Summer, I've been waiting for you to dive into the world of bonsai. Loved this one. Thank you for taking us on your journeys with you!
The passion and excitement this man has especially when he struts off to pick up the next tree is admirable
Love elms, and parrot beaks
Love my bonsai trees
Great insight on Bonsai 👍🏼
thanks for sharing the beautiful video.
You're most welcome.
i love this episode... i could listen to this gentleman for hours more :)
My parents had trouble with bears getting into their birdfeeders, too. They came up with a genius improvisation: They ran a cord across the trees overhead and created a pulley system. It looked like a high clothesline. They hung the bird feeders up just high enough that the bears couldn’t swat them down. The pulley system allowed them to bring them down to refill. The shepherd’s hooks don’t really work well if you have bears - we found one of our out in the woods and the feeder was covered in bite and claw marks.
Thank you for this episode with John! This was so great!
He is just absolutely delightful!!!! I would love for you to meet back up with him again!!!
Finally...a bonsai video..loved it...
good you are getting into bonsai thankyou for this.
What a talented artist. Bravo
thanks Mam for featuring bonsai trees. I love this so much.
Beautiful trees and gorgeous gal a win win for a bonsai lover
I just love it when plant people full-on nerd out!!!
Lots of respects to John. He did amazing jobs on bonsais. I hope he starts youtube. 😁
Omg. I LOVE bonsais!!!!! Love him
It's a bit addictive the old bonsai thing.....
Nice one Summer ! Love it...
Absolutely phenomenal video
very sweet bonsai's ,great job John
Now I have a renewed interest in bonsais. I have many jacaranda seedlings (CA weather) in pots which need to be trained. John's love and enthusiam is contagious. I loved Summer's comment about what really makes a bonsai a bonsai, or a plant in a pot. I have a ficus benjamina which has been in a pot forever (20+ years) which I haven't manipulated too much, but I consider it my bonsai. Very interesting, thank you!
when you check plant in market, you just like kid in candy shop, but when you check other people plant, you will see a true passion. i like this video
These videos are great. Now a bonsai episode? Love it!!
Thank you so much Summer and John , beautiful art and inspiring.Blessings.
love this video so much what a nice old man
john is so cute omg i love him sm
Was an excellent video. Wish you visited my bonsai garden though 😆😆. Loved how you touched feeding, root aireation, pruning topics. And John is so excited with adorable bonsais.
Oh you can make stunning indoor bonsai with dwarf umbrella tree aka Schefflera. You should plant one for bonsai 😉.
Loved the episode.
💚 🖖
Wow nice bonsai 👍👍 like this 🙏
John is adorable! He's so passionate about bonsai and his bonsai are so beautiful.
My first love is bonsai since I was a grade school . because bonsai is unique no identical bonsai .# Bonsai Is a living art.
Fascinating, thank you both. I really enjoy watching you talking about these lovely plants.
These are awesome! Keep ‘em coming please 😎
I’m an old geezer, and would be distracted as well. I like this content.
I do really love this type of person 💤 very nice guy and sounds professional the way he talks 👄 atsuuup 👍
Please feature more bonsai trees. We love them all. I am an old subscriber of your blog.
So much condensed experience, great stuff !
great video!
Great interview 👏
Great, now I'm going to be pruning all my trees for the rest of my life. 🤣 I want everything bonsaied now.
I loved this video!
more bonsai tour pls :)
Just putting it out there but he mentioned Rochester a few times, and that’s where the national exhibition is going to be next month. I doubt anyone will see this, but this is my main hobby, and it’s hold is relatively small and relatively fragile in the states. If you’re at all interested in bonsai, and you’re in the New York State area and you have $50 you should get a ticket. There will likely be some of the best specimens in the country, and there will definitely be almost every leading expert in the country as well as vendors selling material. I’m not affiliated with it, but I’m coming up from Texas and I’m sure those ticket sales and the interest they could generate would really be valuable to the people making it happen.
Woww nicely plant💚🌿🌱☘️done new friend here🌿🌿
Amazing epsiode as always and the guy is such a cool and likable sport 😃
5:30 That is a beautiful bonsai.
John is precious- I want to adopt him.
Most educating
i enjoy these tours like nothing else on youtube! thanks summer for continuing to provide such awesome content you and sander are truly the best
really appreciate that you appreciate them.
he is such a passionate gentleman.such a darling!!!!!
Very cool! I have two bonsai trees and one i hate and the other i just love.. I love all of these on his porch!! What a cool hobby.. I told my hubby that he should be lucky that I do Hoyas and not bonsai in terms of expenses.. Lol
John is adorable! Passionate and skillful! Check out Peter Chan fr Heron Bonsai TH-cam, he has a lot of videos and some are on landscape specimens. John did not mentioned the date and location of the bonsai show. I hope he wins!
Nigel Saunders, Eisei En, and Ben B. Seattle are also really good
Que sonho de colecção
Very interesting and informative as I do Bonsai myself in England.
I have always wanted to do bonsai. I just haven’t been able to start. Thanks for sharing.
It's so amazing😍 I was impressed with your video! Keep up the good work 👍 Have a nice day 🧡👍🌹🍒😔🌹🍒🌹🍒🍎👍😄😁🍅😑😀
YESSSS 😍
... not going to put a single link for the FLBS in your description? way to support
It would be nice if you went back and film Tim actually wiring a tree trimming the roots excetera a mini Workshop so to speak
Thumbs up..
If Y'all want another cute old man whos way into Bonsai, Check out Peter Chan over at Herons Bonsai.
Yessss love that channel
Does anyone know the two American artists he referenced?
I suppose you have to use specific wire to shape the bonsai because I tried to use a craft wire and as the tree grew the wire cut into the branches. I ended up removing the wire and now the branches of course have the imprints of the wire in them. Do you ever take the wire off? I don’t have a garage (just a basement) to house bonsai in the winter. Would it be okay in a cool basement (in the 60’s) or possibly outside protected from the harshest of winter temps (Iowa).
Usually aluminum or copper wires are used. Copper is used specifically on conifers. And yes, you definitely take wire off once the branches are set. A little bit of scaring is okay and common -- it will usually heal in a couple years. However be careful not to let it stay on too long or you'll get a candy cane stripe down your tree.
In winter, your trees are more suseptible to the cold because bonsai pots are shallow and insulate worse than the ground. Your trees don't need to be protected from all frost, but yes it's a good idea to take them into some place where they won't get blasted during the coldest months.
@@richardperry9165 Thank you for your kind response. I have always loved the look of bonsai and tried to grow one or two myself with no luck. I have a ficus benjamina which I've propagated a few times and thought it could turn into a bonsai. I grow them as indoor outdoor plants. I figured if I can transform one of them into a neat design maybe I could try my hand at grow some other varieties of trees again.
@@brendakirk7250 Ficus benjamina make great tropical bonsai! I would say that they are a good first choice. My tips would be to use bonsai soil (as opposed to potting soil) and work on developing the tree's trunk.
@@richardperry9165 Thank you.
Lovely interview Summer. John is absolutely wonderful, his passion and yours is a great motivator for me to trim some of my over grown shrubs as bonsai. 🤞🏻🪴❤️ I planted a small ginkgo tree in a bonsai planter this year to see if I can keep it alive, going out today to get better drainage for it. Thank you.
plz make a video how to make a bonsai
Wish you had asked about his going out to collect the trees. Are there permits needed? I imagine on private property, all that is needed would be permission. Can't imagine they want people going around ripping out trees whilly nilly, especially 100 year old trees. I mean they have been growing in that spot, on that rock for 100 years. Who is to say whether it is going to "last" or not. It must like it there.....I mean it has made it there this long.🌱
Permits are not needed on private property, but yes, if you're collecting in public areas, you apply, which isn't too laborious of a process depending on what you're collecting. The trees he has collected are common species.
Love this guy!
i’d love to do bonsai but i’m too scared because i don’t want to kill a healthy plant 😭😭
I plan to do 'fake' bonsai with jade plants. I live in an apartment so that's my only option although I'm hoping as I gain confidence to do a real one on my small terrace.
@@futureimperfect2826 just so you know, jade plants make great bonsai (specifically portucalaria afra). Some have even won competitions!
54:56 What not to say to a bonsai grower.
Really enjoyed this, he needs his own channel! No offense but I think Summer inserted herself too much in the tour. @ 55:28 her response to his handmade pot was disappointing. Live and learn.
Hopefully John's a man that can handle a person's preference for matte finished vs shellaced planters. 😆 And let's also trust that if he were truly offended by me sharing a preference in his planters or my conversation with him, that we're good enough friends that he would tell me so.
John is great ❤️. Check out Nigel Saunders here on youtube. He is a passionate Bonsai-man.
I LIVE for Summer's field trips! Makes me feel like I'm in second grade again going on a field trip! ☺️
Me too
I loved this episode. I myself am an artist and art historian but I started in biology. I actually am studying the literati and Chinese landscape painting and how they molded their own version of the world, rather than just copying nature. Very inspiring episode and loved the enthusiasm and connection he has for everything. hugs
I love his “canaries”. What a brilliant way to gauge the health or potential problems with his bonsai.
That guy is such a mood 🤣🤣
Summer, you're so humble! I rely on your knowledge in my plant journey- and you just have to accept that you're a plant-genius! I love watching what you and Sander create!
I really love his enthusiasm towards bonsai. I have one plant that is a candidate for my first bonsai project.
I recommend you learn with cheap ficus microcarpa from a box store. They're tough, can be inside in warm weather, and they take to bonsai very well. Walmart and Lowe's usually have them. I would get a couple of the curve ones and not the fat rooted ones.
Your name is amazing!
@@comfortablynumb9342oh yes!! That is the exact plant I have. I contained it in a small pot so that it wont grow large. planning to repot it in a nice planter then structure it soon.
@@AviSLeigh Thank you. Yours too! Love your surname.