I love your channel, even the parts you consider boring. To me they are calming and reassuring and are a much need respite from the chaos of everything else in life
I wonder if anyone else here enjoys Peter's once in a while peeking into the camera lens to see if he can be seen properly on the screen while he is self-videoing... I find it very endearing and funny at the same time.
Never boring or tedious - always informative and entertaining. You have become not only our mentor but a dear friend we look forward to spending time with. You have become the “most interesting man in the world”!! Warm wishes from your Florida fan!🐊🌴
Sphagnum moss + on gravel as Peter's always share. Sure can't wait to see the update and see them on their former glory again. Thx for sharing Peter👍👍👍.
First!!!! Good morning bonsai family. To all at Herons, and anyone viewing: I wish you all a safe and restful Christmas, and hope you have health, happiness, good fortune and short internodes in 2021. May Santa bring you everything you hope for, and deserve. And may your trees live long and thrive 😀
i've designed book covers, and that is an excellent photo. the dynamic, colorful, lushness, and shape of the tree grabs your attention and immediately directs the eye to the title and subtitle. the cover is perfect, in my opinion.
I'm not worried about drama or bordem on you channel. I come here to learn and relax. Everything is interesting to me. Thanks for the close up shots, it is amazing to get a closer look at the details :) I was extremely lucky to find this book online at a used book store for about $15 with shipping. I hope someday it can be republished as I usually see them for sale close to $300 here in the states
I don't get bored watching you wire or transplant or any aspect of working on trees I find it very meditative and would even enjoy longer videos of the like Keep on keeping on ❤
I was able to find a copy of Bonsai Master Class at a Bonsai yard sale in August! It is so interesting to see these trees now. I do not find your process of working on the trees at all “boring” as everything you do has a reason. It will be interested in further progress on these 2 trees!
love the stores about the trees . this is awesome you have nothing to be ashamed of they are all so wonderful in their own way! im just learning but this is fascinating! thank you
I'm thinking of doing the sphagnum moss treatment to some of my trees in the spring so I'm glad to have seen it done. Really as easy as just putting it in moss!
Wow some real bonsai history there ! Shame the John naka composition has been so neglected. Your bonsai master class book for me personally has been the most influential bonsai book I have ever read with lots of down to earth advice that was not in books at the time, and I have bought every book I can get on the subject over the last 30 years ! Really loved your honesty and really enjoyed listening to you talk about those trees, thanks Peter 👍🏻👍🏻
Hey Peter, are you planning to make your older books such as the Master Class available on digital form? They are almost impossible to find these days... Maybe Kindle or PDF format to be available on Amazon
Another great video. Also just taken delivery of my smorgasbord of Herons Bonsai Xmas gifts ! Larch and Yew starter kits and Redwood forest ... turntable and gift vouchers. Everything arrived in tip top condition ... ( I just hope Santa sends me more vouchers so I can get a tool kit !)
Hi mr. Peter This is Jesse one of your loyal Watchers I would I asked you a question the trees cannot be shipped from country out of country dieringer dormancy time that was a question that I really wanted to ask and if I can forward to get to plane to get over there so you can buy a tree from you I would do so I think you are one of the best tree Growers Bonsai that I've ever seen I love the work you do and I love how you explain what you're doing you just don't do a bunch of willy-nilly things and then she'll it to its least you're trying to explain to us you are the madness behind the purpose and that means a lot to us that watch your shows I would do about anything that there is to do to get a forest from you as you do I've spoken to you over the Internet many times on a forest I really wouldn't care what kind of forest as long as it was just a forest from you I have never seen one man come up with the things that you do and they just look so beautiful they are leading you to do that one time when you split that tree in half and that was just so amazing that you could do that and it not die but we live so far away and like I said once before I'm glad I don't live next to you because you would be chasing me away with a rake because I would want to be there all the time donating any time I could just to be around you and watching you do you the amazing things that you do with trees and wire I've never hope to see your show go away even during the corona you always manage to give us something but during the dormancy of the trees they still cannot be shipped from England to the United States I take it so I'm still figuring how am I racking my brain I asked all of my friends all of my anybody are you anybody going to England because if they are can you please get me a tree and try to bring it back you know somehow and I know nobody that's going to England yeah so I really am just sad because you're the ultimate in bonsai keep making your movies I'll keep watching thank you very much for your time and your patience with me I don't mean to be a menace I'm just very into what you do and I always figured if you want the best watch the best but that one time when you split that tree down the middle it didn't die I was like oh my God I was so amazed if I would have tried that poor thing would have died and yellow you never really think much about your bonsais or anything but when one of them dies it actually hurts your feelings that you do you let the tree down you let yourself down and I just wished I had half the talent that you have so you have a great day please stay safe tell all your toys I said hello from the states and if there is anything that you can come up with an idea please feel free to text me at any given time I wouldn't care if it was 2 in the morning text me let me know please you have a great day and keep making those beautiful trees that you do your bonsais rather and I'll keep watching you stay safe buddy
Very interesting, thanks again! It might be wise indeed to give the forest group some recovery time: I think that patience is or should be, one the most valuable issues in bonsaï, don't you think? By the way: I think I understand the history of that pine a bit but how do you evaluate the actual combination of tree and pot in your video? And how does the age of a branche, in your experience, influence its capability of backbudding? Looking forward to your thoughts...
I love how random the road that former cascade's took to fame was! By the way, Peter, I haven't sent an email about the beautiful tree yet, but that's frankly just because I'm stuck where I went on Christmas holiday due to corona restrictions. Do you mind taking care of it for a bit longer?
The Naka forest does not look only neglected. It looks aweful, weak and like the owner does not know anything about Bonsai. Top heavy, the lower branches die off. There is no shape in the apex. I am so sorry cause the dried up lower branches won't recover.
Hi, got a question about ficus and hope someone can help me : I got a ficus thats about 15 years old and i live in Germany, which means our environement is not humid enough to create aerial roots. It got a rather long downward growing side branch on a main branch and i kept it for thickening purposes. However recently i looked at it and thought to myself if i could repurpose it as a quasi aerial root (defoliate and stick it in the ground). Anybody got an idea if that works?
Hi Peter, I have a honest question. And I don't mean this disrespectful in any way. You seem to style your trees much 'looser' than other bonsai professionals I follow on the internet. Most of them would detail wire a pine like this and place all branches so precise that you could hold a ruler to them. Is there a reason you do it this way? I'm not saying your way is better or less than others. I'm just curious. I really enjoy your videos and especially the knowledge you share about air layering an developing bonsai in the ground is really valuable to me.
Obviously I am not Peter Chan. The restrictive styling that you're talking about is defined by the Japanese ideas of what bonsai should be, but, Japanese styling doesn't encompass the entire universe of bonsai. There are also Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Malaysian, Indian etc styles to consider each with their own aethetics and styling rules. Peter can do Japanese styling - that's what the Chelsea Flower Show gold medals were about but I guess his taste has evolved and matured over the years from exposure to all these different forms of bonsai. In 2004 I watched a documentary following the day-to-day workings of a Chinese bonsai practitioner. In it, he would travel around China to buy ancient felled trees to make into bonsai. Some were massive 10-15m tall while others were small bonsai made from the sucker growths of trees that could not be rescued. All the bonsai that he made were all exquisite, naturalistic looking trees and sold for vast amounts of money. It was only then that I realised that bonsai was far wider and deeper than the Japanese way.
@@noyoujanemetarzan1677 I know that . I've seen Chinese styles and I really appreciate them. I was just wondering what Peter's thoughts are about it. Thank you for your comment!
@@Rene_Voortwist I think I can understand your question and the differences you are referring to, are quite obvious. But, on the other hand, I think we might be missing the point here. Mr Chan is explicitly not creating masterpieces here and he is also never pretending, he is. As I understand it, his general goal is to show that bonsaï is in fact achievable for everybody, meaning that you don't have to be rich or brilliant to enjoy this hobby or art or whatever people want to call it. As he tells us in this video, fine wiring this pine would take many, many hours and is therefore not ideal for the kind of videos he shows. Out of ordinary plants and trees, with a minimum of knowledge, time and tools and material, one can create bonsaï and he is showing us, how you could do that, always adding that everybody is, of course, free to follow his own way. He even encourages that many times. Of course, mr Chan is running a commercial nursery and there should be a sensible relationship between costs (time) and profits. Once he told us, he can only spent about 30% of his time, directly on bonsaï; the rest of his time, he's bound to his office and managing tasks. Indeed, as mentioned before, there are also different styles of bonsaï and perhaps the classical Japanese style, might be the most strict. You can easily find examples of all styles on the internet. Of course, all of these styles delivered and deliver beautiful examples and beautiful masterpieces but appreciation of those examples is also determined by once personal taste. To me personal, for example, these very strictly and in classical Japanese style grown bonsaï, are sometimes what I would call "to good to be true", meaning that it 's quite impossible to find any tree, growing in the wild anywhere on the world, looking like that. Of course they can be beautiful and impressive but there is another "philosophy" behind it. For example: are you trying to imitate wild nature or are you trying to "sublimate" certain characteristics of it...? Perhaps interesting to think about... But at the end, we all should enjoy our beautiful and common hobby and I wish you good luck with that!
I would like to cry when owners of almost million dollar forest groups don't take care of their bonsai. Thinking of all the people that would come in once a month for almost free and take care of it for them.
It's nice you can sell very expensive trees to rich people who can't be bothered to care for them. Kepp getting paid for something you sold decades ago!
Not boring at all! Watching a master is the best way to learn. Thank you for all of your content!
I love your channel, even the parts you consider boring. To me they are calming and reassuring and are a much need respite from the chaos of everything else in life
Week 49 of Sunday breakfast with Peter.
What a great video to start the day.
I wonder if anyone else here enjoys Peter's once in a while peeking into the camera lens to see if he can be seen properly on the screen while he is self-videoing... I find it very endearing and funny at the same time.
InstaBlaster
Never boring or tedious - always informative and entertaining. You have become not only our mentor but a dear friend we look forward to spending time with. You have become the “most interesting man in the world”!! Warm wishes from your Florida fan!🐊🌴
Watching bonsai work is an escape from the drama.
It's a good thing.
Sphagnum moss + on gravel as Peter's always share. Sure can't wait to see the update and see them on their former glory again. Thx for sharing Peter👍👍👍.
First!!!!
Good morning bonsai family. To all at Herons, and anyone viewing: I wish you all a safe and restful Christmas, and hope you have health, happiness, good fortune and short internodes in 2021. May Santa bring you everything you hope for, and deserve. And may your trees live long and thrive 😀
Thanks. I really need short internodes! 😄 All the best to you too!
Thanks for your patience in explain it to us, Peter Chan !!!
Oh and about tedious/not tedious: The quiet moments in bonsai work is very soothing to me. I like it - and those who don't are allowed to skip it :)
That's why we watch you I watch every single branches wire or try to nothing boring I call it a Learning lesson
i've designed book covers, and that is an excellent photo. the dynamic, colorful, lushness, and shape of the tree grabs your attention and immediately directs the eye to the title and subtitle. the cover is perfect, in my opinion.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us your life’s work is stunning.
I'm not worried about drama or bordem on you channel. I come here to learn and relax. Everything is interesting to me. Thanks for the close up shots, it is amazing to get a closer look at the details :)
I was extremely lucky to find this book online at a used book store for about $15 with shipping. I hope someday it can be republished as I usually see them for sale close to $300 here in the states
Npt boring! Something very soothing in watching you work and hearing you teach.
I don't get bored watching you wire or transplant or any aspect of working on trees
I find it very meditative and would even enjoy longer videos of the like
Keep on keeping on ❤
Nice trees Peter, can't wait for the finished outcome, they will look great.
Just watching him inspires me to think about my stuff more, and by the way I have started planting, repotting plants and trees and so on.
I was able to find a copy of Bonsai Master Class at a Bonsai yard sale in August! It is so interesting to see these trees now. I do not find your process of working on the trees at all “boring” as everything you do has a reason. It will be interested in further progress on these 2 trees!
Just Beautiful. It is never boring watching a Master at Work.☺☺☺☺
There are three things that one could watch forever: fire, water and other people working
That makes two of us
im using this quote constantly from now on
So good to see such famous , popular bonsai trees , thanks for sharing this vedio sir
Props to the cameraman! Thank you for getting those good close shots
love the stores about the trees . this is awesome you have nothing to be ashamed of they are all so wonderful in their own way! im just learning but this is fascinating! thank you
Perfect for my sunday coffee (trees already watered...)
Thank you master hiroshi
I'm thinking of doing the sphagnum moss treatment to some of my trees in the spring so I'm glad to have seen it done. Really as easy as just putting it in moss!
Thankyou Peter. Those are some very beautiful bonsai. Looking forward to the next updates.
Thank you sir for the inputs.
Wow some real bonsai history there ! Shame the John naka composition has been so neglected.
Your bonsai master class book for me personally has been the most influential bonsai book I have ever read with lots of down to earth advice that was not in books at the time, and I have bought every book I can get on the subject over the last 30 years !
Really loved your honesty and really enjoyed listening to you talk about those trees, thanks Peter 👍🏻👍🏻
Wow these are beautiful
Wow they really look like an actual miniature of a pine tree
watching from belgium
As a new comer to these videos I can not see why anyone could consider learning from you boring...
Always the best👍👍👍👍
Hey Peter, are you planning to make your older books such as the Master Class available on digital form? They are almost impossible to find these days... Maybe Kindle or PDF format to be available on Amazon
Another great video.
Also just taken delivery of my smorgasbord of Herons Bonsai Xmas gifts ! Larch and Yew starter kits and Redwood forest ... turntable and gift vouchers. Everything arrived in tip top condition ... ( I just hope Santa sends me more vouchers so I can get a tool kit !)
Hi mr. Peter This is Jesse one of your loyal Watchers I would I asked you a question the trees cannot be shipped from country out of country dieringer dormancy time that was a question that I really wanted to ask and if I can forward to get to plane to get over there so you can buy a tree from you I would do so I think you are one of the best tree Growers Bonsai that I've ever seen I love the work you do and I love how you explain what you're doing you just don't do a bunch of willy-nilly things and then she'll it to its least you're trying to explain to us you are the madness behind the purpose and that means a lot to us that watch your shows I would do about anything that there is to do to get a forest from you as you do I've spoken to you over the Internet many times on a forest I really wouldn't care what kind of forest as long as it was just a forest from you I have never seen one man come up with the things that you do and they just look so beautiful they are leading you to do that one time when you split that tree in half and that was just so amazing that you could do that and it not die but we live so far away and like I said once before I'm glad I don't live next to you because you would be chasing me away with a rake because I would want to be there all the time donating any time I could just to be around you and watching you do you the amazing things that you do with trees and wire I've never hope to see your show go away even during the corona you always manage to give us something but during the dormancy of the trees they still cannot be shipped from England to the United States I take it so I'm still figuring how am I racking my brain I asked all of my friends all of my anybody are you anybody going to England because if they are can you please get me a tree and try to bring it back you know somehow and I know nobody that's going to England yeah so I really am just sad because you're the ultimate in bonsai keep making your movies I'll keep watching thank you very much for your time and your patience with me I don't mean to be a menace I'm just very into what you do and I always figured if you want the best watch the best but that one time when you split that tree down the middle it didn't die I was like oh my God I was so amazed if I would have tried that poor thing would have died and yellow you never really think much about your bonsais or anything but when one of them dies it actually hurts your feelings that you do you let the tree down you let yourself down and I just wished I had half the talent that you have so you have a great day please stay safe tell all your toys I said hello from the states and if there is anything that you can come up with an idea please feel free to text me at any given time I wouldn't care if it was 2 in the morning text me let me know please you have a great day and keep making those beautiful trees that you do your bonsais rather and I'll keep watching you stay safe buddy
Very interesting, thanks again!
It might be wise indeed to give the forest group some recovery time: I think that patience is or should be, one the most valuable issues in bonsaï, don't you think?
By the way: I think I understand the history of that pine a bit but how do you evaluate the actual combination of tree and pot in your video? And how does the age of a branche, in your experience, influence its capability of backbudding? Looking forward to your thoughts...
By the late John Narker, who is one of the greatest living..
I love how random the road that former cascade's took to fame was!
By the way, Peter, I haven't sent an email about the beautiful tree yet, but that's frankly just because I'm stuck where I went on Christmas holiday due to corona restrictions. Do you mind taking care of it for a bit longer?
The Naka forest does not look only neglected. It looks aweful, weak and like the owner does not know anything about Bonsai. Top heavy, the lower branches die off. There is no shape in the apex. I am so sorry cause the dried up lower branches won't recover.
When is the best time to start a forest. I have a few young trees and i want to create my first forest
Search forest on his channel. He videos on creating them and when to do so :)
Great....
Hi, got a question about ficus and hope someone can help me :
I got a ficus thats about 15 years old and i live in Germany, which means our environement is not humid enough to create aerial roots.
It got a rather long downward growing side branch on a main branch and i kept it for thickening purposes. However recently i looked at it
and thought to myself if i could repurpose it as a quasi aerial root (defoliate and stick it in the ground). Anybody got an idea if that works?
what kind of pine is it?
Super sir
What pine is that? Black pines or white pines or another kind of pines? But anyway that's a cool bonsai really master bonsai style 👍
I wish you would open up a satellite location in the US!
The cover tree of the Masterclass book seems a bit overwhelmed by the pot (container).
good👍👍👍
My first and now dead tree was wired with scrap copper wire out of a wash machine. so when there is a will there's a way lol
🌱🍃👍🏻
Hi Peter, I have a honest question. And I don't mean this disrespectful in any way. You seem to style your trees much 'looser' than other bonsai professionals I follow on the internet. Most of them would detail wire a pine like this and place all branches so precise that you could hold a ruler to them. Is there a reason you do it this way? I'm not saying your way is better or less than others. I'm just curious. I really enjoy your videos and especially the knowledge you share about air layering an developing bonsai in the ground is really valuable to me.
Obviously I am not Peter Chan.
The restrictive styling that you're talking about is defined by the Japanese ideas of what bonsai should be, but, Japanese styling doesn't encompass the entire universe of bonsai. There are also Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Malaysian, Indian etc styles to consider each with their own aethetics and styling rules.
Peter can do Japanese styling - that's what the Chelsea Flower Show gold medals were about but I guess his taste has evolved and matured over the years from exposure to all these different forms of bonsai.
In 2004 I watched a documentary following the day-to-day workings of a Chinese bonsai practitioner. In it, he would travel around China to buy ancient felled trees to make into bonsai. Some were massive 10-15m tall while others were small bonsai made from the sucker growths of trees that could not be rescued. All the bonsai that he made were all exquisite, naturalistic looking trees and sold for vast amounts of money.
It was only then that I realised that bonsai was far wider and deeper than the Japanese way.
@@noyoujanemetarzan1677 I know that . I've seen Chinese styles and I really appreciate them. I was just wondering what Peter's thoughts are about it. Thank you for your comment!
@@Rene_Voortwist I think I can understand your question and the differences you are referring to, are quite obvious. But, on the other hand, I think we might be missing the point here. Mr Chan is explicitly not creating masterpieces here and he is also never pretending, he is. As I understand it, his general goal is to show that bonsaï is in fact achievable for everybody, meaning that you don't have to be rich or brilliant to enjoy this hobby or art or whatever people want to call it.
As he tells us in this video, fine wiring this pine would take many, many hours and is therefore not ideal for the kind of videos he shows. Out of ordinary plants and trees, with a minimum of knowledge, time and tools and material, one can create bonsaï and he is showing us, how you could do that, always adding that everybody is, of course, free to follow his own way. He even encourages that many times.
Of course, mr Chan is running a commercial nursery and there should be a sensible relationship between costs (time) and profits. Once he told us, he can only spent about 30% of his time, directly on bonsaï; the rest of his time, he's bound to his office and managing tasks.
Indeed, as mentioned before, there are also different styles of bonsaï and perhaps the classical Japanese style, might be the most strict. You can easily find examples of all styles on the internet. Of course, all of these styles delivered and deliver beautiful examples and beautiful masterpieces but appreciation of those examples is also determined by once personal taste. To me personal, for example, these very strictly and in classical Japanese style grown bonsaï, are sometimes what I would call "to good to be true", meaning that it 's quite impossible to find any tree, growing in the wild anywhere on the world, looking like that. Of course they can be beautiful and impressive but there is another "philosophy" behind it. For example: are you trying to imitate wild nature or are you trying to "sublimate" certain characteristics of it...? Perhaps interesting to think about...
But at the end, we all should enjoy our beautiful and common hobby and I wish you good luck with that!
I would like to cry when owners of almost million dollar forest groups don't take care of their bonsai.
Thinking of all the people that would come in once a month for almost free and take care of it for them.
Крым-Россия! Севастополь-город русской славы!
#أفرجوا_عن_أحمد_سبيع
It's nice you can sell very expensive trees to rich people who can't be bothered to care for them. Kepp getting paid for something you sold decades ago!
Fiiiiirst