Nigel, you never cease to amaze me with your creativity and skills. Such an extraordinary penjing! You're always thinking outside of the box (pot?)!! And the mini table & chairs with the pinky-sized jade is so fun!! Thanks as always for sharing. 😊
We love you Nigel! I now have some wonderful alberta spruce because of you, You reminded me just how much I need to give love, and how much passion I have to care for something. I'm single and Ive been pretty a lone just trying to be my best self, and something as simple as the art of Bonsai, has really opened me up. I love your take on Bonsai and though I'm only a few months in, I regard you as 1 of the most important people for Bonsai. Thats a very deep line, do not take it at face value
Very good Nigel. Did you ever see Aussie Bonsai Bloke's penjing with the dunny (outside toilet) and a tyre swing on the tree? Much the same altbonsai spirit. Congratulations!
Amazing! I am a classic VW beetle lover and absolutely love the display you made. The square pot is really unique and beautiful. You did a wonderful job aging the beetle too!
In my many visits to junk yards I often see hoods open with weeds growing up through the engine compartment. It might look nice and less distracting if you planted some miniature ivey under the driver's side wheel well growing up onto the engine compartment. It wouldn't take but a few strands to get the desired affect and it would be corralled enough to maintain fairly easily. Just a thought.
The square pot for the ivy/ficus (whatever it is) shitakusa is absolutely perfect for the penjing. Not only do the colors echo the bug- it looked like the glaze is pitted and bubbled. Serendipity!
The patina you made on the beetle looks great. I got the c4 corvette zr-1 in the mail. But I have thought much on what you said . Make patina on it and its a fiberglass car. Hmm i am not sure what to do to make patina. And ebay seller had wrote wrong scale on it. So it was not as big as I thought. Maybe go for other car😢
If you're looking to intentionally plant weeds, l'd like to suggest lambsquarters aka white goosefoot. Seedlings look like miniature adults and are fairly easy to uproot. Seeds should be fairly easy to come by this time of year. I even think they could handle bonsai treatment fairly well.
Nigel, I think that miniature ivy might be an oak-leaf creeping fig, which would not survive outside with the coniferous trees you planted in this penjing.
For the accent plant it would be really cool if you just put a rock and then have an old rusty wheel leaning up against it sourounded by moss or something like that
I'm almost 100% certain your miniature ivy is actually Ficus pumilla 'Quercifolia'. That also meaning that it wouldn't be cold hardy. Ficus pumilla can be found as far North as Southern Georgia USA. The English Ivy you may be thinking of is Hetera helix. If you pluck a leaf or stem off from that plant and it bleeds latex you've got F. pumilla.
My dog caught a baby squirrel yesterday, and took it under the bed like a squeak toy. I had to put the Lil fella on the roof so she didn't get him again.
Sorry I missed this! Can I make a suggestion to plant a tree coming up through the engine bay. You can't have an abandoned car in the forest without at least one tree growing through it! I think it would add a bit of wonder to the planting when the tree starts to grow around the bumper or engine bay lid.
Fantastic planting. Really cool and different. Amazing how the beetle turned out. I still think the tire under the vehicle looks kind of strange. How would it have ended up there? Someone must have lifted the car and placed it there. Not realistic in my opinion.
Looks amazing Nigel - love the accessory plant in the 'rusty' pot! As mentioned by @dk2614 that is actually a type of ficus and not an ivy! (Christmas 2022 gift)
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Do you have a violin you made to show us?!
This is one of the most unique and cutest displays…a winner any way you look at it❤
Nigel, you never cease to amaze me with your creativity and skills. Such an extraordinary penjing! You're always thinking outside of the box (pot?)!! And the mini table & chairs with the pinky-sized jade is so fun!!
Thanks as always for sharing. 😊
Il y a tant de poésie dans cette composition...Chapeau l'artiste! et merci.
What a magnificent work of art Nigel!
I like the miniature table and chairs display!
Wow uniq bonsai penjing old VW.
Good idea Sir.
I love the composition of this. Fantastic inspiration
Great finds at Michaels. That table & chairs is a great idea with your mini on it. Very unique and different. Cool!!!
We love you Nigel! I now have some wonderful alberta spruce because of you, You reminded me just how much I need to give love, and how much passion I have to care for something. I'm single and Ive been pretty a lone just trying to be my best self, and something as simple as the art of Bonsai, has really opened me up. I love your take on Bonsai and though I'm only a few months in, I regard you as 1 of the most important people for Bonsai. Thats a very deep line, do not take it at face value
Nice gift from Jay. I like the pot you put it in.
Great landscaping with the VW!
I like the background music on the last part
Great display
Very cool display. I'm sure it caught lots of attention at the show!
Love this! Very creative!
Really nice job Nigel, the penjing and accent plant are looking excellent !
I have tried this, it’s certainly a great Penjing 👍
Is it weird I want to make my own varnish now?
ALWAYS inspiring us Nigel, thank you kindly sir.
It is so awesome!!!
Distilled vinegar with steel wool is a pretty awesome trick to stain your wood as well
Hey Nigel get a bunch of tires from toys that are in scale, then age them, stack them,put one one roof of the vw, you're also missing bullet holes
Awesome selection!!!
It would be fun to grow a bit of that ivy out of the front seat.
this penjing looks fabulous! kudos to you, Nigel!
Sr. Nigel, usted hace auténticas obras de arte. Maravilloso paisaje. Muchas gracias por compartir técnica y trabajo. Felicidades
pretty amazing. both of those accent pots are perfect as accents for that planting. Not sure how I feel about the ivy but it's a cool plant in itself.
What a beautiful piece of art...seeing this stirred emotions that I have never felt before. Thank you for this experience
Nice work Nigel! Great pairing!
9:06 I think the patina really helps actually
Very good Nigel. Did you ever see Aussie Bonsai Bloke's penjing with the dunny (outside toilet) and a tyre swing on the tree? Much the same altbonsai spirit. Congratulations!
Amazing! I am a classic VW beetle lover and absolutely love the display you made. The square pot is really unique and beautiful. You did a wonderful job aging the beetle too!
Hi Nigel, accent plant isn't ivy. It's ficus quercifolia or ficus thumbergi
In my many visits to junk yards I often see hoods open with weeds growing up through the engine compartment. It might look nice and less distracting if you planted some miniature ivey under the driver's side wheel well growing up onto the engine compartment. It wouldn't take but a few strands to get the desired affect and it would be corralled enough to maintain fairly easily. Just a thought.
The square pot for the ivy/ficus (whatever it is) shitakusa is absolutely perfect for the penjing. Not only do the colors echo the bug- it looked like the glaze is pitted and bubbled. Serendipity!
The patina you made on the beetle looks great. I got the c4 corvette zr-1 in the mail. But I have thought much on what you said . Make patina on it and its a fiberglass car. Hmm i am not sure what to do to make patina. And ebay seller had wrote wrong scale on it. So it was not as big as I thought. Maybe go for other car😢
If you're looking to intentionally plant weeds, l'd like to suggest lambsquarters aka white goosefoot. Seedlings look like miniature adults and are fairly easy to uproot. Seeds should be fairly easy to come by this time of year. I even think they could handle bonsai treatment fairly well.
Nigel, I think that miniature ivy might be an oak-leaf creeping fig, which would not survive outside with the coniferous trees you planted in this penjing.
For the accent plant it would be really cool if you just put a rock and then have an old rusty wheel leaning up against it sourounded by moss or something like that
I'm almost 100% certain your miniature ivy is actually Ficus pumilla 'Quercifolia'. That also meaning that it wouldn't be cold hardy. Ficus pumilla can be found as far North as Southern Georgia USA. The English Ivy you may be thinking of is Hetera helix. If you pluck a leaf or stem off from that plant and it bleeds latex you've got F. pumilla.
You are correct! This is a mini oakleaf creeping fig - Ficus pumilla Quercifolia! Good eye!
What do you think of the ivy growing through the windows of the VW? Like the wild morning glory vines. Just a thought.
My dog caught a baby squirrel yesterday, and took it under the bed like a squeak toy.
I had to put the Lil fella on the roof so she didn't get him again.
U should bend that roof in a little to create a pot like bending for things to grow inside there naturally
I was hoping a small climbing plant growing in and out of the car. A little piece of the accent ficus would do.
Sorry I missed this! Can I make a suggestion to plant a tree coming up through the engine bay. You can't have an abandoned car in the forest without at least one tree growing through it! I think it would add a bit of wonder to the planting when the tree starts to grow around the bumper or engine bay lid.
Is that the gate from your ponytail palm? That planting is amazing! It looks like it's aged and I know it's new!
Fantastic planting. Really cool and different. Amazing how the beetle turned out.
I still think the tire under the vehicle looks kind of strange. How would it have ended up there? Someone must have lifted the car and placed it there. Not realistic in my opinion.
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Looks amazing Nigel - love the accessory plant in the 'rusty' pot! As mentioned by @dk2614 that is actually a type of ficus and not an ivy! (Christmas 2022 gift)
Don’t overdue it there is enough going on in the composition don’t add more stuff into the pot
1:00 chill out, the weeds will grow by themselves. wonder how it all would look without any landscaping for a long time, probably very natural
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Awesome display!!!! but Dang had to use Hitlers Nazis mobile lol
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U are overly complicating planting jungle abandoned car do not get such perfect things around it