Nice to see some deadwood carving to give people some ideas. I liked the way it came out. Now some people should see on bonsai mirai on the how to create deadwood on a pine video and what its like without the use of power tools. Seems u get two totally different looks of deadwood. Where power tools is more breaking the strands of wood using chisels and tearing the wood gives a different look as u peel away at the tree. Great video peter cant wait for part 2.
What a great decision to use that “ugly” root as a feature and make it tell the story of the tree. Wonderful carving! I bought a router and still need to find a good carving bit. Then I will have a go. Good tip not to over do it
I would say its liking watching a surgeon , great video Peter and KW, Thanks and a very Happy Xmas and New Year to all at Herons and to one and all watching
WOW!!! Wasn't sure about the heavy power carving on that thing, but the after photo is awesome. Defiantly need to see this tree five /10 years down the road.
Can"t wait for part 2 and also to see the progress of how its sets after some years! Brilliant having a tree grown from finger thick (as a rejected specimens) turning out to be masterpieces. Best one pound spent. haha. No price can be put on the craftsmanship that took years and years of experience and failure. Thank you both for sharing!
😮😮😮😮 I’m amazed!! This was an incredible demonstration. Something i can only aspire to one day, hopefully!! Thanks so much for sharing. Best wishes, Merry Christmas and all the best for 2023!!
Hi friends. - Peter here. I am in India at the moment and will return in a couple of weeks time. I am here at my old university doing workshops on Wellness and Wellbeing; Sustainability and Climate Change. I may share some of these on this channel in future. Should be interesting. Going to be in 3 cities- Kolkata- Delhi and Mumbai doing bonsai. So more TH-cam videos to come about my Indian bonsai adventures. So watch this space.
I’m in awe envisioning just how beautiful and powerful this tree will look in the years to come. Truly a masterpiece in the making. Well done gentlemen🥂
Amazing! I got so excited to see this come out, I finally had the time to sit and study in this blizzard after I just pulled in all my poor cold trees! I've been so wanting a demonstration just as this. I have a 5 or 6 old yews pulled from a friends yard like 13 years ago to play with. I was wanting to know about the power tools and dealing with big trunk carving so thank you so much, can't wait for part 2.
Very interesting video , thank you again for the inspiration, l hope you have a very merry Christmas and a new year filled with health, peace and prosperity.
No mate, the tree loves, loves, LOVES it. For instance, if i saw your arm and your leg off, two fingers and an ear, pull out your teeth saying "we're trying to replicate a war hero that was tortured by Russians in Ukraine" that won't be stressful to you you'd love it! And you'd probably survive.
Wow that yew looks exactly (well the foliage is a bit different if I’m going to be a picky person) like a yew growing on a craggy out crop on Vancouver Island by one of the small ferry terminals. I looked but don’t have a photo to send
Only you can invite another bonsai expert & try to learn from him when all the “gyaan” has been with you & we have benefitted from it . Thank you for this class
That is so beautiful I wish I could carve like that could you do the similar thing to a privet hedge? I have a large stump. I don’t know what to do with it and I only live 10 minute drive from Heron Bonsai.
Moin Peter, the transformation is outstanding!! what a difference. Can' t wait to see more! Is it possibel that this Yew ist shown on your latest book on bage 63? By the way, I really like your books, specialy the new one! Well done, an inspiration for every Bonsai enthusiast, for beginners and for Experts! Many thank' s for this "reprint" nice to have the German Version of Bonsai Masterclass and now also the brand new "reprint" B. M. The Definitiv Chapter. Plus what I, as one of your TH-cam Fans, like is to see Herons and one or two trees first on your excellent TH-cam- Channel and now also in you book! I absolutley like things like that🙂 Please go on like you do. You are a pefect teacher, I have learned a lot from you and your Books! Your english so good understandabel, for me, so clear and well pronounced, thats just perfect! THANK YOU for all you are and all you give!!!!
The problem with this tree, was that it was too straight and had very little movement in it. I was quite baffled by it and would not have known the best way to proceed. I must say that K.Wilson overcame this problem very easily and has created the start of a tree that has a promising future. This is year one for this tree and will no doubt be shown sometime in the future.
Because the right side of my brain doesn’t work quite right I often struggle with ‘arty’ stuff but when ‘art’ can be demonstrated and explained ‘technically’ I find it very inspiring. Shame there are so many language snobs active in the comments ;(
There can be much art found in analytical thinking. Many a great artist was an analytical thinker. This is particularly true of draftsmen who sought to portray the world accurately instead of impressionisticslly. Just a word to say, analytical people can be creative too in their own valuable ways :)
I like your collaboration videos. Bonsai Releaf seems to be in the UK and has a different/way more Japanese approach than you and your employees do. It could be interesting to have him over.
@@peterchan3100 personally I prefer your approach. I think the Japanese get carried away with showing off the craft and tend to make unnatural looking but ornate things.
@Heron Bonsai hi, interesting video but, far too many editor i or jumps! Just when it was interesting there was a big jump- far too many of them. Annoying!
I guess art is subjective, but I felt this tree was mutilated. Its original beauty took my breath away when I saw it in the pot; that beautiful thick trunk and roots, the potential it had…what it looked like at the end made my stomach knot. Usually I love the transformation, but this time was only sad.
As Peter says, different people would come to different solutions. We have different backgrounds and tastes, what someone likes others do not and that is all good. I believe this was a great process but the full potential of this bonsai is yet to be seen. I also believe that the aspiration to make this into a tree that feels really old was achieved, and for that a thick trunk and thin small branches is best.
And yet K. Wilson owned and styled what is arguably the greatest Bonsai Yew tree in Europe. This is day 1. in the life of this Bonsai, give it a chance.
Ah well, I don't know. The carving on the top looks like an angry goblin face to me and the branches are all equally spaced. I don't see the 50 kt wind lashing at this tree... To each their own I guess.
Poor tree. I've been trying to understand this hobby, but every time I see a "project", I see beautiful trees being tortured and being kept on the verge of dying. Before you start yelling I'm deluded and that trees don't have feelings, probably so, but I do. And tearing down a beautiful tree that nature has created, under the pretext that "we try to replicate nature" is bullcrap. I just see that you try to replicate suffering and I start wondering if this is normal, psychologically speaking. In this case, the original tree was infinitely more beautiful than what you ended up with.
Iv'e never heard 'yeh' so many times used, in a sentence, let alone a full presentation. Clearly a better bonsai carver, than a proponent of the English language. He really ought to try to speak proper English!
This is not a channel about speaking 'proper' English but about bonsai. BTW that sort of accent and manner of speaking is highly sought after in film and TV.
Hi friends. - Peter here. I am in India at the moment and will return in a couple of weeks time. I am here at my old university doing workshops on Wellness and Wellbeing; Sustainability and Climate Change. I may share some of these on this channel in future. Should be interesting. Going to be in 3 cities- Kolkata- Delhi and Mumbai doing bonsai. So more TH-cam videos to come about my Indian bonsai adventures. So watch this space.
Hi friends. - Peter here. I am in India at the moment and will return in a couple of weeks time. I am here at my old university doing workshops on Wellness and Wellbeing; Sustainability and Climate Change. I may share some of these on this channel in future. Should be interesting. Going to be in 3 cities- Kolkata- Delhi and Mumbai doing bonsai. So more TH-cam videos to come about my Indian bonsai adventures. So watch this space.
so good to se Kevin in action
Great master love from Nepal
Happy to see some time, thought and effort applied in the styling process rather than the whirlwind pruning and basic styling we normally see.
It never hurts to add a carving string to our bonsai bow.
Many thanks to Kevin for taking the time to demonstrate the practical skill.
Reminds me of being at the Dentists. Kevin drilling/carving and then his assistant comes along with some suction.
Nice to see some deadwood carving to give people some ideas. I liked the way it came out. Now some people should see on bonsai mirai on the how to create deadwood on a pine video and what its like without the use of power tools. Seems u get two totally different looks of deadwood. Where power tools is more breaking the strands of wood using chisels and tearing the wood gives a different look as u peel away at the tree. Great video peter cant wait for part 2.
What a great decision to use that “ugly” root as a feature and make it tell the story of the tree. Wonderful carving! I bought a router and still need to find a good carving bit. Then I will have a go. Good tip not to over do it
KW shreds wood like a rockstar. Amazing artistry with obvious flair for the extreme.
Love the interaction/dialog between two Masters as decisions are considered and taken! Can't wait to see more on this tree. Thanks Peter & KW!
Wow you should invite more people like him to your nursery.
I do if they have something special to share and of course if they would like to come- and provided we can afford them.
That was very special thank you Peter can't wait for second part
Excellent work Kevin Wilson! The final result was a much older looking tree with a lot of character. Looking forward to Part 2.
Really intriguing video thanks for sharing this with us!
That was some change. Thanks team. Merry Christmas to all.
I would say its liking watching a surgeon , great video Peter and KW, Thanks and a very Happy Xmas and New Year to all at Herons and to one and all watching
And so the tree leans slightly, the intense wind of the past forming a massive fist that grips the earth.
WOW!!! Wasn't sure about the heavy power carving on that thing, but the after photo is awesome. Defiantly need to see this tree five /10 years down the road.
What a collaboration! 2 people I could watch all day
Really love the thought process on giving story to tree - amazing composition!
enjoyed the process, thanks for sharing
Wonderful video. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Peaceful and Happy New year.
Can"t wait for part 2 and also to see the progress of how its sets after some years! Brilliant
having a tree grown from finger thick (as a rejected specimens) turning out to be masterpieces. Best one pound spent. haha.
No price can be put on the craftsmanship that took years and years of experience and failure. Thank you both for sharing!
Really love collaboratin 😍😍👍
I can't wait for part II
Very inspirational you really nailed it yeah👍👍👍🏅🏅🏅.Ernie smith from brisbane Australia
😮😮😮😮 I’m amazed!! This was an incredible demonstration. Something i can only aspire to one day, hopefully!! Thanks so much for sharing. Best wishes, Merry Christmas and all the best for 2023!!
This is a very beautiful and unique approach to bonsai. Looking forward to part 2!
I just saw a most beautiful piece of living art done with a forstner bit…. Incredible
Hi friends. - Peter here.
I am in India at the moment and will return in a couple of weeks time.
I am here at my old university doing workshops on Wellness and Wellbeing; Sustainability and Climate Change. I may share some of these on this channel in future. Should be interesting.
Going to be in 3 cities- Kolkata- Delhi and Mumbai doing bonsai. So more TH-cam videos to come about my Indian bonsai adventures.
So watch this space.
Enjoy your trip
I’m in awe envisioning just how beautiful and powerful this tree will look in the years to come. Truly a masterpiece in the making. Well done gentlemen🥂
Going to be an amazing series. Better than Netflix in the usa
Oh, very interesting!
I love seeing Kevin's work. Will there be a part 2?
Really interesting video. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and techniques Kevin
Wow, amazing job guys. Thanks for the video.
Can't wait to see it done 😍, fascinating to see masters at work. Thx for sharing Peter 👍
I like the dialogs between Kevin and Peter. A lot of informations and Inspiration. Give us more videos ! 😄
Yeah
Amazing! I got so excited to see this come out, I finally had the time to sit and study in this blizzard after I just pulled in all my poor cold trees! I've been so wanting a demonstration just as this. I have a 5 or 6 old yews pulled from a friends yard like 13 years ago to play with. I was wanting to know about the power tools and dealing with big trunk carving so thank you so much, can't wait for part 2.
Wow, very interesting! Can't wait to see the part 2, 3 of this fantastic carving/styling work art of bonsai. Always watching from PH. 💕 ❤️ 💜
Very interesting video , thank you again for the inspiration, l hope you have a very merry Christmas and a new year filled with health, peace and prosperity.
Very very interesting thank you! Does remind me of a trip to the dentist though! having an assistant suck out the waste makes it even more real!,😷😵💫
Very exiting. Looks so fantastic.
Cool!!!
Looking forward to part 2 but I was thinking of the dentist when the vaccy was turned on.😁
Fascinating to watch this tree take shape and in a way I could not have imagined! Looks amazing! 🙏🏻
A masterpiece is born. Anxiously awaiting part 2. Thanks, keep growing
Just amazing 👏 😍
Beautiful🥰Merry Christmas to you all🎄🎅🏻🧑🏾🎄
Amazing👍👍👍
Good 👍 is amazing
Loved watching 2 masters at work. I do have one question, is that not to much stress on the tree? A lot of cutting done.
No mate, the tree loves, loves, LOVES it. For instance, if i saw your arm and your leg off, two fingers and an ear, pull out your teeth saying "we're trying to replicate a war hero that was tortured by Russians in Ukraine" that won't be stressful to you you'd love it!
And you'd probably survive.
The journey of this tree is breathtaking. Cannot wait to see part 2.
If you didn't know now you know absolute legend great work as always kW . Love from a young jedi .
Yeah great video Pete! Know what I mean! 🌲👍
Wow that yew looks exactly (well the foliage is a bit different if I’m going to be a picky person) like a yew growing on a craggy out crop on Vancouver Island by one of the small ferry terminals. I looked but don’t have a photo to send
My ficus tree is loosing a lot of healthy leaves, any suggestions or tips to stop leaves falling? for UK residents in winter
Only you can invite another bonsai expert & try to learn from him when all the “gyaan” has been with you & we have benefitted from it . Thank you for this class
If you stop learning - you might as well stop living. That has always been my motto.
@@peterchan3100 that’s why you are you ! 🙏🏻
👍👍 awesome
Is there a part 2?
Looking like peter is gonna have a heart attack😂😂,,(may you live much much yesrs..)
That is so beautiful I wish I could carve like that could you do the similar thing to a privet hedge? I have a large stump. I don’t know what to do with it and I only live 10 minute drive from Heron Bonsai.
Kevin sounds like Andy Serkis!
A wise man once said “yeah”
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 thanks Peter
Pierwsze drzewo, które wyszło ciekawie na tym kanale. Brawo Kevin👏
A bit too much craving for me. But interesting to see! This guy has his vision
Yeah...
Yeah
Yeah
What an honor and privilege to watch this magical transformation. Just amazing and beautiful. Thanks so much for this experience 👏👏👏👍👊😊🙏
Moin Peter, the transformation is outstanding!! what a difference. Can' t wait to see more! Is it possibel that this Yew ist shown on your latest book on bage 63? By the way, I really like your books, specialy the new one! Well done, an inspiration for every Bonsai enthusiast, for beginners and for Experts! Many thank' s for this "reprint" nice to have the German Version of Bonsai Masterclass and now also the brand new "reprint" B. M. The Definitiv Chapter. Plus what I, as one of your TH-cam Fans, like is to see Herons and one or two trees first on your excellent TH-cam- Channel and now also in you book! I absolutley like things like that🙂 Please go on like you do. You are a pefect teacher, I have learned a lot from you and your Books! Your english so good understandabel, for me, so clear and well pronounced, thats just perfect! THANK YOU for all you are and all you give!!!!
I think back to the videos with condemnation of carving just to carve stuff.
We deliberately chose trees that are suitable for this sort of work.
The problem with this tree, was that it was too straight and had very little movement in it. I was quite baffled by it and would not have known the best way to proceed. I must say that K.Wilson overcame this problem very easily and has created the start of a tree that has a promising future.
This is year one for this tree and will no doubt be shown sometime in the future.
Great and interesting vid but yeah
Because the right side of my brain doesn’t work quite right I often struggle with ‘arty’ stuff but when ‘art’ can be demonstrated and explained ‘technically’ I find it very inspiring.
Shame there are so many language snobs active in the comments ;(
There can be much art found in analytical thinking. Many a great artist was an analytical thinker. This is particularly true of draftsmen who sought to portray the world accurately instead of impressionisticslly.
Just a word to say, analytical people can be creative too in their own valuable ways :)
Language snobs there are a plenty - but few can do what Kevin does !!
I would like to know how long this tree will live after seeing it carved on like this.
It’ll be fine. He was paying attention to the live veins and what supported what branch
So long as there is a "route" through the tree (ie the live veins) you need not worry :)
Wow.
That almost felt like torture.
It'll be interesting to see how it ages.
I noticed, this is the same tree as the one in Peters latest book on page 63.
Yeah
The tree was more beautiful before he started carving it up!
I like your collaboration videos. Bonsai Releaf seems to be in the UK and has a different/way more Japanese approach than you and your employees do. It could be interesting to have him over.
We all have our different ways of doing bonsai - the Japanese way is not the only way.
@@peterchan3100 personally I prefer your approach. I think the Japanese get carried away with showing off the craft and tend to make unnatural looking but ornate things.
@Heron Bonsai hi, interesting video but, far too many editor i or jumps! Just when it was interesting there was a big jump- far too many of them. Annoying!
I guess art is subjective, but I felt this tree was mutilated. Its original beauty took my breath away when I saw it in the pot; that beautiful thick trunk and roots, the potential it had…what it looked like at the end made my stomach knot. Usually I love the transformation, but this time was only sad.
As Peter says, different people would come to different solutions. We have different backgrounds and tastes, what someone likes others do not and that is all good. I believe this was a great process but the full potential of this bonsai is yet to be seen. I also believe that the aspiration to make this into a tree that feels really old was achieved, and for that a thick trunk and thin small branches is best.
And yet K. Wilson owned and styled what is arguably the greatest Bonsai Yew tree in Europe. This is day 1. in the life of this Bonsai, give it a chance.
I thought it was stunning what Kevin did.
I guess Kevin must have been a boxer at some point, yeah, you know what I mean, yeah?
Scanning the comments for this! Take a shot every time he says "yeah" 🥴 Beautiful work on the tree in the videos ✌️
Comment.. 🤷🏼♂️
just watching this video ..yeah...im hungry ..yeah....just wondering ..yeah...yeah...you yeah...you know yeah what yeah im saying yeah
If it was a drinking game I'd be gravely ill.
He speaks about as well as he does bonsai…
@@alaskaismyhome39 what? This is a British accent, do you think we all talk like the Royal family ?!
It is the same as a person using umm habitually. It's not something to make fun of.
@@nickybeingnicky f that, everything is fair game. Speech, weight, appearance, intellect, behaviour wealth. Just try to stop me
Ah well, I don't know. The carving on the top looks like an angry goblin face to me and the branches are all equally spaced. I don't see the 50 kt wind lashing at this tree... To each their own I guess.
the lack of basic safety equipment when power equipment is in use is frightening - you need some H&S training.
Nah, not for me...
There are many different approaches and styles in this game. I appreciate your point of view.
This man is ridiculous yeah.
Ridiculous in a good way " Yeah"?
@@peterchan3100 Nah, 50/50 I'd say
Poor tree. I've been trying to understand this hobby, but every time I see a "project", I see beautiful trees being tortured and being kept on the verge of dying.
Before you start yelling I'm deluded and that trees don't have feelings, probably so, but I do. And tearing down a beautiful tree that nature has created, under the pretext that "we try to replicate nature" is bullcrap. I just see that you try to replicate suffering and I start wondering if this is normal, psychologically speaking.
In this case, the original tree was infinitely more beautiful than what you ended up with.
Iv'e never heard 'yeh' so many times used, in a sentence, let alone a full presentation. Clearly a better bonsai carver, than a proponent of the English language.
He really ought to try to speak proper English!
Or we really ought to stop nitpicking and being so judgemental
This is not a channel about speaking 'proper' English but about bonsai. BTW that sort of accent and manner of speaking is highly sought after in film and TV.
pick pick picayune!
Hi friends. - Peter here.
I am in India at the moment and will return in a couple of weeks time.
I am here at my old university doing workshops on Wellness and Wellbeing; Sustainability and Climate Change. I may share some of these on this channel in future. Should be interesting.
Going to be in 3 cities- Kolkata- Delhi and Mumbai doing bonsai. So more TH-cam videos to come about my Indian bonsai adventures.
So watch this space.
this account seems to be fake. prove me wrong.
@@pinus_nigra -- It is not fake - Peter here back from India now 25 Jan
Hi friends. - Peter here.
I am in India at the moment and will return in a couple of weeks time.
I am here at my old university doing workshops on Wellness and Wellbeing; Sustainability and Climate Change. I may share some of these on this channel in future. Should be interesting.
Going to be in 3 cities- Kolkata- Delhi and Mumbai doing bonsai. So more TH-cam videos to come about my Indian bonsai adventures.
So watch this space.