Watched this video last year and grabbed a couple of Florida swamp maples and a yellow oval pot and followed your instructions. It's sitting here smiling at me. I trimmed a little and I'm so proud.
This guys is such an adept and knows his personal trees so well that he just absolutely manhandles trees I'd be afraid to touch. I'll be there in 40 years.
I love how he just gets right in there, grabbing, breaking-up, snipping, etc without any worries, shows true expert & a great teacher as well; shows not to worry about how it looks in process but the end result & how easy to get to that end result - organized chaos into outstanding beauty! 👍🏻❤
I love how he always says he’s lazy, even though I’m pretty sure he works like every day and works all day. I’ve seen several videos filmed on Sundays so I really think he does at least some work every single day. I know a lot of people like him including my German grandmother, they can’t stand sitting and doing nothing, they will find ANY work to do even if they have plenty of excuses to rest. If you notice most elderly people that are very healthy are like that, it keeps them young mentally and physically!
I don’t have a bonsai tree, yet, but I can’t stop watching all your videos. I want to thank you for sharing your joy about bonsai trees. I believe that with everything I’m learning from you when I buy a bonsai tree I’ll be able to keep it alive and beautiful. Thank you again.
Thank you for doing these fabulous videos. I've thoroughly enjoyed discovering your channel. Please remember that many of us may be in very far off parts of the world & have no access to either your nursery or your classes - sadly, so in a way, you're not losing anything, you're gaining admiration, appreciation, gratitude, and inspiring newbies. Thank you - from Australia
Oh my goodness I absolutely adore your bonsai forests. I only found your channel yesterday and can’t get enough of your videos. I have been collecting bonsai for over ten years and have learned so much from you already. Thank you sir 🙏
peter, thank you for making such beginner friendly videos, and making bonsai more accessible to regular people. i used to think it was a craft only a few talented people could accomplish, but your videos are really inspiring and encouraging to people like me who're new to it 🙂
Such a humble man! "Professionals may do it differently, but I do it this way!" How bad do the others have to be if he doesn't mean to be professional ?! For me he's the best !! Thanks for the master class!
42:05 spot on assessment! I've seen many people explaining on and on about their intention before pruning. I really appreciate you getting straight to the doing and explain as you go!
The view of these videos was serendipity at first and now each new video grants serenity and helps to see everything in an easier way. Thanks Peter for your simplicity and the passion that you are able to transmit in the humbler way. Always wait to see a new one to learn something new!
The most wonderful part of this is Peter refers to professional growers might do it one way, but this is the way he does it… totally putting aside he is the professional. Imagine getting into bonsai watching a few TH-cam channels and finding this just awesome, I dare say you have followers and admirers in all corners of the world and I just happen to be a 3 hour drive from your nursery, If I get chance I will call by some day!
Thanks for always sharing your trade secrets and "doing yourself in" ( like you said). Your passion is contagious. Thank you Mr. Chan. I think I am infected...
Thank you for your commitment to making bonsai accessible and simple. I am an American living in Bolivia and, as a confirmed plant addict, have been rescuing naturally-occurring, but unwanted (because of location), ficus seedlings. That has naturally led me to dabbling in bonsai and I recently bought a juniper for the express purpose of creating a bonsai, thanks to your guidance on TH-cam. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and philosophy.
Thank you so much! Your videos really do make bonsai so accessible for everyone and show how simple plants can really make something amazing! Have ordered some junipers from you to make myself a forest!
Forget the forest and bonsai for once Peter. Getting to see you and hear you is as plesant as sitting in the garden in the morning. We all love u Peter.
I agree. He is a remarkable man. Never condescending, or haughty ....always humble and excepting of others ideas and views. He is a joy to be around....even by video.
Great video Mr Chan. Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us. Many people dont understand the value of it anymore. The workshops you offer for free would cost alot of money to take anywhere else. So many wonderful tips included in this video.
Peter... to make bonsai with you would be quite an experience... thanks for being so inviting!!! I just love the groups, forests and individual trees.. some more than others.. but their all masterpieces!!!
Even this channel is about bonsais but I am so much enjoyed listen how you talk and gave direction so clearly, beautiful teaching about tree and how nature they are. This is very therapeutic for me. Thank you so much for establish this channel on TH-cam. You make an outstanding teacher . 🙏🏻😔
I always thought bonsai were interesting, intriguing. I'm hooked, this stuff is amazing. He's incredible. Imagine having him for a sensei, a mentor, a boss.
He says he’s lazy but I’m pretty sure he works like every day and works all day. I’ve seen several videos filmed on Sundays so I really think he does at least some work every single day. Plus I know people like him which reminds me of my grandmother, they can’t stand sitting and doing nothing, they will find ANY work to do even if they have plenty of excuses to rest. If you notice most elderly people that are very healthy are like that, it keeps them young mentally and physically!
Lol. I highly doubt anyone viewing your videos will make a dent in your business. If they are watching your videos, they're new to creating Bonsai's like i am. You do great work, and it's a pleasure to watch your videos.
Just wanted to say thank you for sharing all of your knowledge with us. I find it very peaceful watching you and now enjoy applying it to my humble Bonsais. From Denver Colorado.
wtf? i really love that. in my mind a picture was grown to build a forest as well. i love bonsai for decades now and i love the forest but for a strange reason i never but that ideas together. it is what i urgently have to do right now. thanks for the inspiration.
What a great tutorial. Thank you for showing the tricks of making the forest. You make it so easy. Someday, I will try to make one. You’re such a good teacher and so inspiring.
Peter I personally enjoy watching all of your videos and appreciate the way you explain the different processes and Herons is my first stop for trees and special supplies.
I just found this channel today. He say's he is nothing special, he is an artist of the first order. His ability to work with living things and make them more pleasurable to the eye is talent beyond belief.
I was always reluctant and shy to show or even speak about my shoestring budgeted bonsai trees.... Now your words and experience has motivated me not to be shy about my experiments with bonsai trees...Thank you Sir...
Just lovely! I'm inspired to have a go at making a juniper forest. I'm already into moss gardens so this is a perfect video for me. Thank you very much for sharing your skills! 😍
I'm hooked from just a few videos. Love watching all of these! Now to find a Bonsai group in Arizona to help get started! thanks for the Bonsai Inspiration!
Peter, you are AWESOME!!!!!! what an artist, what eyes, to see where the potential is. It's really unbelievable the things you do!!!!!. Take care. Keep healthy to continue showing us marvellous things through TH-cam. Thanks for all you do. Best regards. Rose K.
If I use a lump of concrete I may get laughed at! But Peter can create something in minutes with it and I’m willing to pay good money! What a genius he is!
I love plants and have put off getting involved with bonsai's due to how expensive and serious the hobby is in SA. These videos are amazing and they have honestly changed my perspective😁. You make it look fun and beautifully creative. I would love to see the colors on the maple in a year or so
Excellent video and information that will allow those of us that want to start on creating bonsai. Thank you for all you do and provide for us that follow you. Blessings.
That conjures some beautiful imagery. Thank you. I'm a sucker for the zen garden styled bonsai setups where they make it look like there's a river and bridge and stuff like that, maybe a combed sandpit and monolith/upright stone. Takes the zen nature at the root of bonsai and then takes it into a miniature zen garden diorama. So gooood! It's like zen meta. Zen-ception. Not sure if you play games, but if your into trains and model railways I'd HIGHLY recommend OpenTTD; it's basically Roller-Coaster Tycoon, BUT FOR TRAINS (+rail networks)! It's also free! (It's the open-source remake of transport tycoon delux; openTTD.) also has road, sea, and air travel; but it's mostly to exclusively used as a virtual railway sim, and it's bloody fantastic at that.
I just want to say I started to do this and wow, so peaceful and such enjoyment watching it transform. I've only done one tree so far but in time I will make this. Thank you for sharing
What a pleasure to see you working, is that a therapy, I live every second, it's fascinating what you do, I've never seen anything like it before, do some wonders .. congratulations and good health I wish you
Dunno about you guys, but for me Peter's bonsai videos are like therapy.
Same,totally agree.
whos peter
There is some Bob Ross Thing going on there.
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Watched this video last year and grabbed a couple of Florida swamp maples and a yellow oval pot and followed your instructions. It's sitting here smiling at me. I trimmed a little and I'm so proud.
I bet it’s beautiful. I’m about to do the same with some sugar maples from my yard and a big, teal, oval pot. 🥰🥰
They have too big leafes, isn't it??
I also got a swamp/red maple near my house in south Florida and it’s growing beautifully
I can't get enough of this content. TH-cam algorithm, please support this man and his photosynthesis-based friends.
This guys is such an adept and knows his personal trees so well that he just absolutely manhandles trees I'd be afraid to touch. I'll be there in 40 years.
Noticed that immediately. Everything is intentional. Mastery.
It's so beautiful to see such a wonderful and warm hearted person share it's philosophy. Thank you very much! You're awesome!
Would love a video where you revisit some of the bonsai from old videos- show us how they grew, what you ended up doing with them!
I love how he just gets right in there, grabbing, breaking-up, snipping, etc without any worries, shows true expert & a great teacher as well; shows not to worry about how it looks in process but the end result & how easy to get to that end result - organized chaos into outstanding beauty! 👍🏻❤
Great teachers, share and inspire, rather than show superiority and look down on others. You are a great teacher. 🙇♀️
I nearly took up teaching when I graduated.
@@peterchan3100 l love how he treaches
"see this amazing forest, its only about 10 years old" the level of dedication is amazing
With Peter, everything is easy and fast. Kudos to this great Teacher.
I am a beginner in bonsai. Your videos are helping a lot. Love and regards from Kerala India
Underated TH-cam channel, amazing content, Very calming, soothing, and fun to watch. Also educational and teaches you how to do it!
I love how he always says he’s lazy, even though I’m pretty sure he works like every day and works all day. I’ve seen several videos filmed on Sundays so I really think he does at least some work every single day. I know a lot of people like him including my German grandmother, they can’t stand sitting and doing nothing, they will find ANY work to do even if they have plenty of excuses to rest. If you notice most elderly people that are very healthy are like that, it keeps them young mentally and physically!
I often think it's not 'work' if it's your passion :)
I don’t have a bonsai tree, yet, but I can’t stop watching all your videos. I want to thank you for sharing your joy about bonsai trees. I believe that with everything I’m learning from you when I buy a bonsai tree I’ll be able to keep it alive and beautiful. Thank you again.
Beauty is therapy. Master Chan and Staff illustrate how this can be natural and friendly.
I also love that you show many examples before showing how to do it.
Peter is a treasure in this world a truly great man
Thank you for doing these fabulous videos. I've thoroughly enjoyed discovering your channel.
Please remember that many of us may be in very far off parts of the world & have no access to either your nursery or your classes - sadly, so in a way, you're not losing anything, you're gaining admiration, appreciation, gratitude, and inspiring newbies.
Thank you - from Australia
Oh my goodness I absolutely adore your bonsai forests. I only found your channel yesterday and can’t get enough of your videos. I have been collecting bonsai for over ten years and have learned so much from you already. Thank you sir 🙏
peter, thank you for making such beginner friendly videos, and making bonsai more accessible to regular people. i used to think it was a craft only a few talented people could accomplish, but your videos are really inspiring and encouraging to people like me who're new to it 🙂
I love the videos you have certainly inspired me to try and do bonsai in South Africa thank you so much you are so brilliant
Thank you Peter. Your humility is so refreshing. I love how motivated and relaxed after a teaching video with you. Thank you
Such a humble man! "Professionals may do it differently, but I do it this way!" How bad do the others have to be if he doesn't mean to be professional ?! For me he's the best !! Thanks for the master class!
I love the forests. Can we see an update in Spring or Summer please.
42:05 spot on assessment! I've seen many people explaining on and on about their intention before pruning. I really appreciate you getting straight to the doing and explain as you go!
I find it's a much more effective learning experience, you can follow the thought process more naturally.
Stumbled apon one video and now i am hooked and fell in love with the channel instantly 😁
The view of these videos was serendipity at first and now each new video grants serenity and helps to see everything in an easier way. Thanks Peter for your simplicity and the passion that you are able to transmit in the humbler way. Always wait to see a new one to learn something new!
The most wonderful part of this is Peter refers to professional growers might do it one way, but this is the way he does it… totally putting aside he is the professional.
Imagine getting into bonsai watching a few TH-cam channels and finding this just awesome, I dare say you have followers and admirers in all corners of the world and I just happen to be a 3 hour drive from your nursery, If I get chance I will call by some day!
Hello from California, USA Love your tutorials on your website.. I've learned a lot from you SIR! GOD BLESS YOU! Much love from America 🇺🇸
I love the privet forest! The height variation really accentuates the spatial variation so the overall composition looks fuller ❤
Thanks for always sharing your trade secrets and "doing yourself in" ( like you said). Your passion is contagious. Thank you Mr. Chan. I think I am infected...
Thank you for your commitment to making bonsai accessible and simple. I am an American living in Bolivia and, as a confirmed plant addict, have been rescuing naturally-occurring, but unwanted (because of location), ficus seedlings. That has naturally led me to dabbling in bonsai and I recently bought a juniper for the express purpose of creating a bonsai, thanks to your guidance on TH-cam. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and philosophy.
I could watch and listen to you for hours! It’s absolutely healing and nourishing.
Thank you, Peter! 🙏
You are an Inspiration-! And your willingness to share knowledge with the World is pure Love.❤️
Peter your videos are so inspiring to me thank you for sharing your knowledge with us especially during these hard times.
Thank you so much! Your videos really do make bonsai so accessible for everyone and show how simple plants can really make something amazing! Have ordered some junipers from you to make myself a forest!
Yes! Mesmerizing as though watching the hands of Mother Nature creating her landscapes.
Forget the forest and bonsai for once Peter. Getting to see you and hear you is as plesant as sitting in the garden in the morning. We all love u Peter.
Bonsai is an art and this is an artist.
I love the way you are repeatedly sorry for cutting the leaves just because they are beautiful. You are a lovely man. Be blessed Mister C.
The videos are so nicely edited that I didn’t realize I watched an hour video
My Office Manager does the editing - she is excellent.
Really - crap, I’m late!!! 😂😂
Oh shoot it's been an hour already?! lol
Love your philosophy (49:30)! You're a great man!
Greetings from Poland!
"Their are no hard and fast rules". Peter Chan
I agree. He is a remarkable man. Never condescending, or haughty ....always humble and excepting of others ideas and views. He is a joy to be around....even by video.
That juniper forest is gorgeous. I can hardly wait to have the space to create such beautiful things!
53 minutes of a very well spent of my time. thank you.
you are a master - i love your workstyle and your philosophy
I admire you sir , on your dedication in everything you do, your so energetic at your age, keep it up
Great video Mr Chan. Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us. Many people dont understand the value of it anymore. The workshops you offer for free would cost alot of money to take anywhere else. So many wonderful tips included in this video.
Peter... to make bonsai with you would be quite an experience... thanks for being so inviting!!! I just love the groups, forests and individual trees.. some more than others.. but their all masterpieces!!!
Even this channel is about bonsais but I am so much enjoyed listen how you talk and gave direction so clearly, beautiful teaching about tree and how nature they are. This is very therapeutic for me. Thank you so much for establish this channel on TH-cam. You make an outstanding teacher . 🙏🏻😔
There is so much kindness in your heart,your success will never end. Thank you for being so a great teacher.♥️
Such a humble man thank you for your knowledge
I am so grateful for your guidance in all of your videos. Thank you!
I always thought bonsai were interesting, intriguing. I'm hooked, this stuff is amazing. He's incredible. Imagine having him for a sensei, a mentor, a boss.
The juniper forest is just so glorious it makes me happy just to imagine what it could look like in the years to come.
"I am a lazy person", hahahahaha, lovely that he says that while he makes bonsais.
He says he’s lazy but I’m pretty sure he works like every day and works all day. I’ve seen several videos filmed on Sundays so I really think he does at least some work every single day. Plus I know people like him which reminds me of my grandmother, they can’t stand sitting and doing nothing, they will find ANY work to do even if they have plenty of excuses to rest. If you notice most elderly people that are very healthy are like that, it keeps them young mentally and physically!
@@CHloE748also staves off negative emotions and anxiety to focus on something like that
these incredible paintings will always captivate the eye
Watching your videos lowers my blood pressure. Thank you.
Lovely, not boring at all. I love the speed at which you work!
Lol. I highly doubt anyone viewing your videos will make a dent in your business. If they are watching your videos, they're new to creating Bonsai's like i am. You do great work, and it's a pleasure to watch your videos.
Watching your videos make me so chill and happy. Thank you.
Its a pleasure watching you and your inspiring methods! If I was in the UK I would definitely be in a class.
Just wanted to say thank you for sharing all of your knowledge with us. I find it very peaceful watching you and now enjoy applying it to my humble Bonsais.
From Denver Colorado.
I do love the forests / groups, beautiful little landscapes and a bit more forgiving than single specimens !
I love watching your videos. I especially love your humble philosophy of bonsai and teaching it, you are an inspiration.
You have been blessed 🙏
I really admire your collection Peter. Thank you for this inspiring video
Such vivid & clear guiding demonstration for amateurs like me . Thank you .
wtf? i really love that. in my mind a picture was grown to build a forest as well. i love bonsai for decades now and i love the forest but for a strange reason i never but that ideas together. it is what i urgently have to do right now. thanks for the inspiration.
Love all the videos, you sure know your stuff!! So fun listening to all your tips and insight on bonsai
What a great tutorial. Thank you for showing the tricks of making the forest. You make it so easy. Someday, I will try to make one. You’re such a good teacher and so inspiring.
Peter I personally enjoy watching all of your videos and appreciate the way you explain the different processes and Herons is my first stop for trees and special supplies.
I just found this channel today. He say's he is nothing special, he is an artist of the first order. His ability to work with living things and make them more pleasurable to the eye is talent beyond belief.
I love watching you work on these projects, it’s relaxing and so enjoyable ❤❤❤your my favourite bonsai channel.
Always compliments the beauty of the tree. Very nice to hear.
I love that you aren't pretentious about Bonsai! Thank You Sir!
I can watch you picking moss for hours, very satisfying!
You made me laugh with delight. Well said. Me too.
He makes it look so simple. This would have taken me days. Thank you for the tutorial.
I was always reluctant and shy to show or even speak about my shoestring budgeted bonsai trees.... Now your words and experience has motivated me not to be shy about my experiments with bonsai trees...Thank you Sir...
A calm kind place, just brings out your imagination. A place to bring out every one's best in them selves . THANKS PETER
Well said!
Thank you sir for you kind feedback
Just lovely! I'm inspired to have a go at making a juniper forest. I'm already into moss gardens so this is a perfect video for me. Thank you very much for sharing your skills! 😍
I'm hooked from just a few videos. Love watching all of these! Now to find a Bonsai group in Arizona to help get started! thanks for the Bonsai Inspiration!
Mike Bast I’m in Arizona too! Let me know if you find one!
Inspirational en very much enjoyable, Thank you so much. If I visit the UK I will be visiting also your premises. Have a blessed 2023.
I love Bonsai forests, beautiful video and thanks a lot for teaching!
Peter, you are AWESOME!!!!!! what an artist, what eyes, to see where the potential is. It's really unbelievable the things you do!!!!!. Take care. Keep healthy to continue showing us marvellous things through TH-cam. Thanks for all you do. Best regards. Rose K.
If I use a lump of concrete I may get laughed at! But Peter can create something in minutes with it and I’m willing to pay good money! What a genius he is!
I love plants and have put off getting involved with bonsai's due to how expensive and serious the hobby is in SA. These videos are amazing and they have honestly changed my perspective😁. You make it look fun and beautifully creative. I would love to see the colors on the maple in a year or so
Well done , Peter . Nice to have you back .
You are so amazing. Thank you so much for sharing yourself, art and style!
I loved the forest growing out of the stone!
I'm new to Bonsai and your videos and knowledge are the best and are very helpful. I very much appreciate you sharing.
I am so extremely envious, this man is so so blessed. I wish i had his green fingers and his bonsai's wow... love !
Excellent video and information that will allow those of us that want to start on creating bonsai. Thank you for all you do and provide for us that follow you. Blessings.
I like model railways and could imagine a rail track going through the forest.
That conjures some beautiful imagery. Thank you.
I'm a sucker for the zen garden styled bonsai setups where they make it look like there's a river and bridge and stuff like that, maybe a combed sandpit and monolith/upright stone. Takes the zen nature at the root of bonsai and then takes it into a miniature zen garden diorama. So gooood! It's like zen meta. Zen-ception.
Not sure if you play games, but if your into trains and model railways I'd HIGHLY recommend OpenTTD; it's basically Roller-Coaster Tycoon, BUT FOR TRAINS (+rail networks)! It's also free! (It's the open-source remake of transport tycoon delux; openTTD.)
also has road, sea, and air travel; but it's mostly to exclusively used as a virtual railway sim, and it's bloody fantastic at that.
Chuk Wow - What an ingenious idea!
Do it
hell ya
Make some roads..Some model cars and trucks running on the road and a coal or steel mine & also keep some mini wood cutters for perfection.
I just want to say I started to do this and wow, so peaceful and such enjoyment watching it transform. I've only done one tree so far but in time I will make this. Thank you for sharing
Enjoyed every minutes of your videos, thank you for teaching!
Beautiful and Stunning scenery🎉🎉🎉🔥🔥🔥
it's always lovely to walk with you my friend. 🔥🔥🔥
Thank you for sharing. happy weekend😁😁😁
I challenge anyone to find better shirts than Peter. He was a rockstar in another life.
I always enjoy watching your videos Peter, though I live in the USA, the principles and techniques of bonsai you teach are the same, thank you.
What a pleasure to see you working, is that a therapy, I live every second, it's fascinating what you do, I've never seen anything like it before, do some wonders .. congratulations and good health I wish you
Youre the best! Thank you very much! I am going to give it a try now. First cheap nursery juniper, maybe maples, and hope to go looking for yamadori!
I live in the US and love watching you create. My tru love is maples but the Juniper group is awesome.