And… Just like that, there you go. Peter, I think you have forgotten more about creating bonsai than I ever knew 😊. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and techniques. Keep growing
Hi Peter. I’ve watched you over the years, and now at 72, and retired, I’m enjoying my very very amateur efforts at bonsai. As you say, I can always say instead of amateur or the typical stylized bonsai, that mine are unique 😊😊
I love, love, LOVE the discovery of the multiple fronts of the tree, and excitement and joy that resulted from it. I felt it too!!! It was a true WOAH!!! moment with goosebumps.
Must be Amazing to have a surplus of material on the side lines to create with after an inspirational walk round your nursery! Living the dream Peter the hard work and frugalness has paided off. A mind set I grew up and was raised with!
God gave you a very special gift and keen eyes to seek all the possibilities of beauty in each plant. I enjoyed watching you as your skilled hands manipulated each plant forming a masterpiece in miniature so pleasing to the eye that it touches our souls. I feel I know a part of who you are through your work. Your gentle voice allows each plant to trust your hands as you bend its very being. Thank you for a very spiritual experience. It brought me great piece and joy. 🙏🏼❤💫⚘❣⚘💫❤🙏🏼
Thank you... 🙏 😔 🙏 Dr. Chan, good morning or good day, it is morning here. It is good to have you back. (Completed the very first reading of the book.) You are a very busy Dragon. It is so nice to see you traveling, bringing you to different parts of the planet. It is much easier to ask, that question, when you know the people arround you, should know, where the misunderstanding stems from. As usual your videos are so full of information, such as, which tree does not like its roots "messed with" and do not leave a wired tree outside, metals are much more responsive to temperature than plant material. You have "lived Bonsai" and you are a scientist, to most of us it is a hobby or love of plants. The plants you did, are my kinds of material, what is hiding in that. Along the lines of "bite the bullet": I saw something in a short video, I think, about Japanese culture, the word was translated as "cute", do ask me to spell the word, I can't pronounce it. The narrater went on to explain about "Hello Kitty®" and that "craze", how the Japanese like "cute" things and I thought about Bonsai. I had always though of "neat" and "harmony" and "balance" and "clean" when thinking of things Japanese. I think the idea of a "cute" "little" tree helps me understand more as an "aspiring" Bonsai artist, of 58 years. Anyway.
Thank you very much by sharing your knowledge through the world I do really appreciate, I’m 61 years old man and turning my hobby from playing golf into bonsai , I just came from vacation and suddenly I lost interest playing golf because of financial issues I do really enjoy watching your videos.
In the hands of the master it looks simple , brilliant educational video Peter , l have a large pot grown Yew which I might now tackle after watching this
BEing a complete beginner, I try to soak up as much info from Peter's thoughts when it comes to shaping the tree. I've ordered his beginner books and can't wait for them to arrive.
For the phrase "bite the bullet" most etymologies refer to battlefield surgeries and giving patients something to bite down on during surgeries without painkillers. Lead bullets are relatively soft, so they were often used. Archaeologists have found a lot of bullets with tooth marks in them at the sites of old field medical camp positions.
Yes, that was my understanding too. Incidentally the story narrated by Peter in India led to the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857. Historians now refer to it as the first war of independence against the British.
Yes, this was my immediate understanding of where the saying came from: biting something to mitigate pain, something soft enough to not crack a tooth, but not that soft it gave way completely. This principle certainly helped me during labour! 😂
Hi Peter, loved watching you style the yew and spruce. Great content and given me a few ideas as I’m sure Luke will have also 😂 hoping to visit you again soon 🙏🏻
An amazing operation that you have built up . Impressive that you share your craft with humility and grace. I am happy you had a nice trip to lndia and a safe return to England.
What a transformation! Bite the bullet story made me laugh, it makes so much sense, I’ll try to split trunk of my goolar ( Indian fig) during monsoon as plants are more forgiving then 😊
New here, it was both disheartening & refreshing to hear an exclamation of exhaustion at the beginning.. As a grafter, trainer & pruner of fruit trees, Bonsai remains a serious fascination. Balancing passion with business leaves me hesitant. Loving this, though ~
Thank you for the wonderful and informative videos. I would really like to see how you got those seriously pot bound trees into such small pots. I think I have lost a number of plants by making the wrong decisions on root reduction. There is so much available on styling but so little on the husbandry. Truly the bane of the beginner.
Lemon is pretty bad for bonsai. If you want something with fruit I'd suggest crabapple, one of the ornamental cherry varieties, cotoneaster or pyracantha
Peter…do you have a video about how to re-pot a severely pot-bound tree at a completely different angle like the first one in the video? I have a Parsoni juniper with that situation.
Can u please notify what kind of soil is in nursery pots and how long before its changed for fresh, if at all it is getting changed? The same soil as you would use for in a bonsai pot? Please
I've always said, cutting the tip of a branch, is the same thing that happens in nature when an animal eats the fresh shoots, and in nature it doesn't harm the tree, not if nature is in balance
There's a kind of semi-weeping Norway spruce. I have one the spitting image of yours but only about a quarter the size. Think it may be a hybrid/sport of the true weeping spruce...
I would have kept the branches of that first spruce weeping, as weeping seemed to be the habit of that spruce. I would not have shortened them...they wanted to weep.
I have a question but first I want to tell you how much I enjoy your videos.i have learned a lot from them and wish that I could get one of your trees. My question is can you split the trunk of a ficus benjamina to make something out of a very straight tree.
What a gem of a man Peter is. He loves his work and therefore he hasn’t work at all.
True true
Hooray! Someone advocating not to waste plastic products. As ever it is a pleasure to watch your videos Mr Chan!
And… Just like that, there you go.
Peter, I think you have forgotten more about creating bonsai than I ever knew 😊. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and techniques. Keep growing
Hi Peter.
I’ve watched you over the years, and now at 72, and retired, I’m enjoying my very very amateur efforts at bonsai. As you say, I can always say instead of amateur or the typical stylized bonsai, that mine are unique 😊😊
This kind of content is what inspired me to do bonsai
Josh is the star apprentice!..Delivering tools and holding branches, while never loosing the shot. 😎
That yew will be a real gem later. Very interesting project. Thanks.
Great Lesson Sir 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I love, love, LOVE the discovery of the multiple fronts of the tree, and excitement and joy that resulted from it. I felt it too!!! It was a true WOAH!!! moment with goosebumps.
Must be Amazing to have a surplus of material on the side lines to create with after an inspirational walk round your nursery! Living the dream Peter the hard work and frugalness has paided off. A mind set I grew up and was raised with!
God gave you a very special gift and keen eyes to seek all the possibilities of beauty in each plant. I enjoyed watching you as your skilled hands manipulated each plant forming a masterpiece in miniature so pleasing to the eye that it touches our souls. I feel I know a part of who you are through your work. Your gentle voice allows each plant to trust your hands as you bend its very being. Thank you for a very spiritual experience. It brought me great piece and joy.
🙏🏼❤💫⚘❣⚘💫❤🙏🏼
Thank you for your very kind words of encouragement - it gives me a purpose for living. Bless you.
Quiet, relaxed and yet so productive and informative. Thanks for this wonderful video. I like all three trees, and I like the spruce the most.
Thank you Peter for the instruction
Thank you... 🙏 😔 🙏
Dr. Chan, good morning or good day, it is morning here. It is good to have you back. (Completed the very first reading of the book.)
You are a very busy Dragon. It is so nice to see you traveling, bringing you to different parts of the planet. It is much easier to ask, that question, when you know the people arround you, should know, where the misunderstanding stems from.
As usual your videos are so full of information, such as, which tree does not like its roots "messed with" and do not leave a wired tree outside, metals are much more responsive to temperature than plant material. You have "lived Bonsai" and you are a scientist, to most of us it is a hobby or love of plants. The plants you did, are my kinds of material, what is hiding in that.
Along the lines of "bite the bullet":
I saw something in a short video, I think, about Japanese culture, the word was translated as "cute", do ask me to spell the word, I can't pronounce it. The narrater went on to explain about "Hello Kitty®" and that "craze", how the Japanese like "cute" things and I thought about Bonsai. I had always though of "neat" and "harmony" and "balance" and "clean" when thinking of things Japanese. I think the idea of a "cute" "little" tree helps me understand more as an "aspiring" Bonsai artist, of 58 years. Anyway.
Today is a happy Sunday!
Thanks Peter for the nice video!
I love seening projects like this and how they turn out. Thank you for sharing
That simple white bag trick works every time !! Best thing I have learned from you.
Peter, I LOVE your excitement at 14:17!!! I watched that a couple of times.
I've missed these kind of videos ❤
I love listening & watching these videos. Informative. Soothing. Relaxing.
Amazing work.
Thank you very much by sharing your knowledge through the world I do really appreciate, I’m 61 years old man and turning my hobby from playing golf into bonsai , I just came from vacation and suddenly I lost interest playing golf because of financial issues I do really enjoy watching your videos.
Thanks Peter, i love your long videos.
Always amazing videos.
Third tree ❤️... Thx for sharing Peter... Can't wait to see more 👍
In the hands of the master it looks simple , brilliant educational video Peter , l have a large pot grown Yew which I might now tackle after watching this
Hi mr c! Another very instructive vlog for us!, 👍👍👍👍always enjoy watching you work your magic!,
Brilliantly done!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💖🤗💖
Thank you so much Peter for sharing your time and knowledge with us. It's such a privilege.
BEing a complete beginner, I try to soak up as much info from Peter's thoughts when it comes to shaping the tree. I've ordered his beginner books and can't wait for them to arrive.
For the phrase "bite the bullet" most etymologies refer to battlefield surgeries and giving patients something to bite down on during surgeries without painkillers. Lead bullets are relatively soft, so they were often used. Archaeologists have found a lot of bullets with tooth marks in them at the sites of old field medical camp positions.
Yes, that was my understanding too. Incidentally the story narrated by Peter in India led to the Sepoy Mutiny in 1857. Historians now refer to it as the first war of independence against the British.
Yes, this was my immediate understanding of where the saying came from: biting something to mitigate pain, something soft enough to not crack a tooth, but not that soft it gave way completely. This principle certainly helped me during labour! 😂
I remember reading the same as him. I should see if the wikipedia entry has changed.
The feeling that Josh had at 14:40 is the same of mine. Amazing job!!!
A tree beautiful from all angles is always a happy bonus. The first tree is so lovely.
Yes I'm so excited for 11th March!! What an opportunity, I will definitely try to attend !
Amazing work Peter!
That was so much fun! 😊
Thanks again. Every video you do teaches me something new. You are incredible!!
Amazing work. I love watch how ordinary bushes are transformated into peces of art.
My kinda gardener especially the way prices have soared ,Yes I save my pots too ! PS loppers THERE GREAAAAT !!!
Thank you for the tremendously informed lesson! Can't adequately express what a FLOOD of I formation you share!
The best bonsai educational video that I ever to lean, "3 to 1!!!" 👍👍👍
Hi Peter, loved watching you style the yew and spruce. Great content and given me a few ideas as I’m sure Luke will have also 😂 hoping to visit you again soon 🙏🏻
Mr chann this video was amazing .
Very cool, thanks for sharing! These initial styling and development type videos are always very helpful!
An amazing operation that you have built up . Impressive that you share your craft with humility and grace. I am happy you had a nice trip to lndia
and a safe return to England.
Loved watching beauty come into being. Very nice! Thx for filming! *= )*
What a transformation! Bite the bullet story made me laugh, it makes so much sense, I’ll try to split trunk of my goolar ( Indian fig) during monsoon as plants are more forgiving then 😊
Wonderful♥️
Always such a joy❗
Great possibilities! Thank you for sharing so much of the process!
New here, it was both disheartening & refreshing to hear an exclamation of exhaustion at the beginning.. As a grafter, trainer & pruner of fruit trees, Bonsai remains a serious fascination. Balancing passion with business leaves me hesitant. Loving this, though ~
Wow cool you are going to visit the Netherlands! I will see if I can make it!
Starting to follow the beginners course of bonsai , at Lodder bonsai just last week . Big thanks again for everything !
Thank you for the wonderful and informative videos. I would really like to see how you got those seriously pot bound trees into such small pots. I think I have lost a number of plants by making the wrong decisions on root reduction. There is so much available on styling but so little on the husbandry. Truly the bane of the beginner.
Repotting videos coming up soon.
Such beautiful transformations. I can hardly wait for it to warm up just a bit more so I can start working outside again
Absolutely enjoyed this.
Great work
Legendary, so glad i found this channel, love from Ningbo iChina
Love the top we got you Peter glad it fits. 👋🏼
Thank you and your Dad for the wonderful shirt. Love it.
Been trying to figure out my branch splitter for a couple years now, this instructable was priceless; put the blades in-until the two blades meet. :D
Your videos are so inspiring, thank you for sharing, I’m learning a lot !
Your dressing is like tanuki 😀 love it
Your Videos have inspired me to get into Bonsai but i was wondering could you also use some trees not typicaly used for bonsai like for example lemon?
Lemon is pretty bad for bonsai. If you want something with fruit I'd suggest crabapple, one of the ornamental cherry varieties, cotoneaster or pyracantha
is it possible to make a video with the first tree to see how the changes are going ?
I just learned something! Thanks!
I love your videos and your work. The techniques you share are helping me learn more about bonsai creation. Thank you.
QUE BUENO QUEDARON Y EL EQUILIBRIO QUE LOGRO ES DIGNO DE ADMIRACION POR EL TRABAJO EN LOS TRES EJEMPLARES
I love watching your videos, they are so informative and relaxing. Thank you, and your shirt looks cool!
He's my fav.
Awesome I need to spend more time at the local nursery
This is perfect! I can't afford to buy plants this year but love bonsai. Thanks!
thank you for sharing your knowledge
Sooooo beautiful ❤️
Thanks for this video!
amasing, thank You
Excited to meet you in real life at Lodder on the 11th! For now the videos will have to do :)
So many respect, you recycling your pots! Everybody has to do that.. Make a world with no large plastic soup..
Peter…do you have a video about how to re-pot a severely pot-bound tree at a completely different angle like the first one in the video? I have a Parsoni juniper with that situation.
Question : at 16:00 in , would you have chosen the front by choosing the look of the base also?
If it is difficult to choose the front then the root base can be a determining factor
What a great learning experience!
Love it!
dang youre gettin pretty dang good at those
Can u please notify what kind of soil is in nursery pots and how long before its changed for fresh, if at all it is getting changed? The same soil as you would use for in a bonsai pot? Please
Amazing transformations! Would be cool to see these in 5 years from now
I've always said, cutting the tip of a branch, is the same thing that happens in nature when an animal eats the fresh shoots, and in nature it doesn't harm the tree, not if nature is in balance
There's a kind of semi-weeping Norway spruce. I have one the spitting image of yours but only about a quarter the size. Think it may be a hybrid/sport of the true weeping spruce...
it is nice when there is some interaction from the camera man!
If you snap or break while bending .
Would setting it help make it more playable before bending
Großeinkauf, Mike? Sehr cool 😎! Hast du denn schon Bäume, die 3-4 Jahre in einer Schale stehen?
Oder ist das für die zukünftige Planung?
That That first spruce would be a great candidate for a SLOW spinning display Mount.
any plans on coming to New Zealand? Aotearoa 😀
Invite me - I might come.
Peter you should get the ratcheting loppers
again Interesting and inspiring
Where is the nursery in Belgium or Netherlands? Cant find it on Google
Its called Lodder Bonsai near Amsterdam airport. Look on the internet.
Hi Peter, where are you going to do a demo, in Holland or Belgium? And what date? ✌️🌳👍🏼
Ok Lodder Holland 👍🏼
11 March at Lodder Bonsai.
@@peterchan3100 only that date, or will you have more demonstrations?
@@CorrieCGD Sorry - I demonstrated on 11th March only.
@@peterchan3100 maybe next time, I only just heard it yesterday
it all looks like it's a game. bonsai player... in a zen sense.
I can’t believe that tree is 30 yrs old 😮
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 thanks Peter
nail pliers work fine for trunk splitting and what not
very simple and cheap tool but works nice
When you cutting tree like this, it’s not going to dye?
Hello Peter, do we have to make a reservation for your demonstration in Holland on 11.3 ? Regards Jitka
No you dont have to make reservation, but check with Lodder. They call it Open House, so I assume it is open to all. Look forward to seeing you there.
@@peterchan3100 thanks
I would have kept the branches of that first spruce weeping, as weeping seemed to be the habit of that spruce. I would not have shortened them...they wanted to weep.
I have a question but first I want to tell you how much I enjoy your videos.i have learned a lot from them and wish that I could get one of your trees. My question is can you split the trunk of a ficus benjamina to make something out of a very straight tree.
Yes you can do that but I would recommend doing it to a branch more than an inch thick.