I dugout a Chinese juniper couple of days ago. I planted it in 2007 on the ground as a garden bush and was not more tall than 4 feet x 4 feet because I kept it trimmed . It has a big trunk and I style it yesterday as good as I can. I am 67 year old lady and after the digging all my body hurts like I was running a marathon.It took me good two hours of work.But I am really exited about this new bonsai. I was always very athletic, running, swimming it’s amazing how your body changes. I started during the pandemic the bonsai with Peter and continue, I have many bonsai s now mostly Japanese maples and I can’t wait every day to go out on the garden. Thanks Peter and company for your daily inspiration.
Always a pleasure to see your videos. I live in California and I have a desert like landscape along with a beautiful acacia. I have grown acacias from seeds and they make beautiful bonsai at an early age, I’m also working on 2 different forest
Mr Chan! I have been so excited to meet you at the Mid Atlantic Bonsai Spring show. I’m so disappointed that your workshop sold out one day before I registered! I’m on the wait list though, and have signed up for your critiques. You can be sure I will introduce myself to you and also remind you that you offered me a dance. I so look forward to meeting you and learning from your demonstrations. See you in April!😊
Please please introduce yourself to me. I believe some other clubs in your area are going to invite me to do workshops - please ask the organisers about this. You can organise a dance for me. I dance West coast swing.
I loved this. You guys really speak my mind! Imagening the birds and keeping the trees natural. It might be a shrub still to some, but it already gives my imagination wings. And thats, as you said, the essence of the comfort we experience in Bonsai!
This looks like a mature natural tree to me..put into a nice pot and some moss added as a top dressing..so bon sai at its best.. 👍 Of course bonsai is/can be also understood as an art form but there's nothing wrong with a project like this. I like it very much!! 🤗
My inclination is to find a design in the given tree, instead of engineering a design. I tend to be a "dumb luck" kind of guy. It inspires me to find and dig a tree with interesting possibilities intact. This video validates this approach for me . . . thank you.
A very nice tree. With a little more refining I believe it will still retain the desired result of looking like a naturally grown tree. Still, a lovely bonsai that I would be proud to have. 👍
Tricky little more left or wright for me. However it looks great and can be improved in the future. Great tree great video . Good luck with your business 🎉
A great insight of Bonsai being mindfulness personally it calms my mind and the connection with nature understanding a trees natural habitat also looking at trees in the wild gives me inspiration thank you Peter another inspiration video 🫶
I was very interested in this, as I also have adhd and autism. I agree that bonsai is a mindful and spiritual experience, I have started many cuttings last year and I'm growing some from seeds also 🙏🏻
I also find bonsai quite spiritual. I only have about 15 trees, mainly grown from seed or cuttings over the past 20 years. The time I have spent looking at them seeing how they adapt to a new cut or different soil adds up to many hours being free from all the other day to day thoughts so that I always walk away refreshed. I'm not stating my bonsai table is an altar but it certainly has a beneficial effect on my mental health.
Being one with nature helps with my ASD,ADHD and Asperger's it's why I enjoy gardening and creating stock for future bonsai, I have a 19 yr old T tree which started me off 4 years ago😊
Great video. At the end of the day the aim of bonsai is to recreate nature's beauty in miniature form.if you can stand back and see a representation of a full size tree in the distance you have achieved your goal. Yes there are established "rules" but to my mind they've always been a guide not the ultimate goal. After all if you're constantly fighting a tree to bend it to your will rather than adapting and trying to work with what it gives you it will never look its best.
@@peterchan3100 Thank you Peter I am a big fan here in Connecticut I know that you don't ship outside of England, so I was wondering if there ws an Asian contact that will ship to the states
Hello and good afternoon, I just re-potted my bonsai a week ago or so. She lost all her leaves about 6 weeks ago probably and I have gotten no new growth since. The day I changed the soil, the old soil had a white layer on the top!! I'm not sure what it was, mold, mildew, eggs, fuzzies. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture. Is this normal for this time of year?? I live in the PNW in WA. I feel like this is the first time I have experienced this. I have had her for at least 4 years.
Personally i do believe that the process of "taking care" of a plant or person (very different things) can help you with motivation and attention. Sadly both are living elements so plants and people will leave you (or you will lose them). Enjoy the time you have with them. Sometimes i feel overwhelmed and anxious because i have something/somebody to care about. honestly for me it's like a balance between happiness and sadness.
We have scientific data proving that trees do communicate with one another. I’ve read some of them. Plants can make very high sounds that a human ear can’t hear. In case of danger trees tell every other trees about it. In their own way. There’s a kind of special scent plants produce on some occasions - that’s like a language. And. A frightening thing: trees feel when they are cut. And tell other trees about this danger. So, what’s going in a bonsai centre?
They do communicate, although not on a conscious way like humans!(as far as known/proven) When there are under attack by pests they release a sort of hormone/smell to be less attractive. Other plants/trees react on that and start the same process.
@@e-nglish635 and plants make noise to! When they dry out they(maybe not al plants) make a popping sound,not detectable for humans. Some think it is communicating of some sort or a cry for help. Science(so far) knows it is the implosion/collapse of cell walls because of dehydration.
@@e-nglish635there has been a misconception about mycorrhizal beeing like a big internet/communicating thing in old forests between different trees. Later research showed that trees can communicate without that mycorrhizal presence in the soul. Simple communication about treaths they evolved with, like pests and fungi. Surviving,that is where it is all about. That doesn’t mean they have fear/emotions.
I do and prefer natural bonsai. The Art bonsai trees are nice but they look artificial to me. Give me a tree that looks like a tree. Thank you Peter. Enjoyed the video❤
I enjoyed this conversation so much!!! Thank you Peter & Clive
Lets respect plants more!
Mindfulness, dancing, and bonsai. I say that's a winning combination, Peter! ❤
What a great start for this tree!!!
Great video, recently watching a lot about naturalistic bonsai, like it more and more. Very happy to find your video
I find working on bonsai is the best way to decompress after a day of work.
So awesome to see Clive and Peter in a video together.
To Be A Bonsai! 🤘🏼⚡
Clive understands the true spirit of bonsai. Great guy. I really enjoyed working with him.
What an incredible feelgood video. Thankyou Peter & Clive.
I dugout a Chinese juniper couple of days ago. I planted it in 2007 on the ground as a garden bush and was not more tall than 4 feet x 4 feet because I kept it trimmed . It has a big trunk and I style it yesterday as good as I can. I am 67 year old lady and after the digging all my body hurts like I was running a marathon.It took me good two hours of work.But I am really exited about this new bonsai.
I was always very athletic, running, swimming it’s amazing how your body changes. I started during the pandemic the bonsai with Peter and continue, I have many bonsai s now mostly Japanese maples and I can’t wait every day to go out on the garden.
Thanks Peter and company for your daily inspiration.
Let me know if you need any help or ideas with those big trees you have in the ground.
Oh thank you so much. Thoroughly enjoyed the young man's thoughts and philosophy on bonsai. I like the 'it just is', kind of thinking.
One of my favourite trees you’ve shown. Big fan of naturalistic styling 👍
The Bonsai turned out so lovely. Really interesting and calming video to watch!
I liked the round grey one, but it's art, and this is the artists vision and it's beautiful.
Always a pleasure to see your videos.
I live in California and I have a desert like landscape along with a beautiful acacia. I have grown acacias from seeds and they make beautiful bonsai at an early age, I’m also working on 2 different forest
A very nice tree. Thank you.
Dancing, painting, bonsai and mindfulness! That sounds like a really good time. 😊
Watching from South Africa and really enjoyed every moment of this video.
I hope South African bonsai is progressing well. Years since I was there.
🌿🇿🇦🙏
it's beautiful
Mr Chan! I have been so excited to meet you at the Mid Atlantic Bonsai Spring show. I’m so disappointed that your workshop sold out one day before I registered! I’m on the wait list though, and have signed up for your critiques. You can be sure I will introduce myself to you and also remind you that you offered me a dance. I so look forward to meeting you and learning from your demonstrations. See you in April!😊
Please please introduce yourself to me. I believe some other clubs in your area are going to invite me to do workshops - please ask the organisers about this. You can organise a dance for me. I dance West coast swing.
I loved this. You guys really speak my mind! Imagening the birds and keeping the trees natural. It might be a shrub still to some, but it already gives my imagination wings. And thats, as you said, the essence of the comfort we experience in Bonsai!
This looks like a mature natural tree to me..put into a nice pot and some moss added as a top dressing..so bon sai at its best.. 👍
Of course bonsai is/can be also understood as an art form but there's nothing wrong with a project like this.
I like it very much!! 🤗
I wonder where are my sceptics? None so far?
I am a simple man, I see Peter Chan, I click!❤
I am only a simple gardener.
My inclination is to find a design in the given tree, instead of engineering a design. I tend to be a "dumb luck" kind of guy. It inspires me to find and dig a tree with interesting possibilities intact. This video validates this approach for me . . . thank you.
That is the best way to approach bonsai - with an Open Mind.
It just goes to show you what you can achieve when you learn from Peter. ;) Green side up style.
Beautiful. Wonderful. Thanks for letting us watch the process.
Peter watch a documentary - the hidden life of trees. Love your show!
I have seen it - very fascinating
Great video and a very insightful young man. Thank you both for a great discussion 😊 all the best for your nursery in South Africa!
Thank you for the kind words 🙏🌿
This was a great way to start my morning. I loved the video and I hope you have a great day
Thank you! 🙏🌿
A very nice tree. With a little more refining I believe it will still retain the desired result of looking like a naturally grown tree. Still, a lovely bonsai that I would be proud to have. 👍
🙌🌿🙏
I’m 6 minutes in and loving this! I too have ADHD and find bonsai calms the mind and promotes awareness
What a beautiful nice tree and the pott fits perfectly 🍀 thanks for sharing this with us ✌🏽
Easiest natural style anyone could try, I'd find a smaller pot, but it's just me, grats...thx for sharing Peter
Tricky little more left or wright for me. However it looks great and can be improved in the future. Great tree great video . Good luck with your business 🎉
A great insight of Bonsai being mindfulness personally it calms my mind and the connection with nature understanding a trees natural habitat also looking at trees in the wild gives me inspiration thank you Peter another inspiration video 🫶
I was very interested in this, as I also have adhd and autism.
I agree that bonsai is a mindful and spiritual experience, I have started many cuttings last year and I'm growing some from seeds also 🙏🏻
Another fan from South Africa and a huge fan of Peter and Herons Bonsai channel😊.
Representing South Africa 🇿🇦🌿
I also find bonsai quite spiritual. I only have about 15 trees, mainly grown from seed or cuttings over the past 20 years. The time I have spent looking at them seeing how they adapt to a new cut or different soil adds up to many hours being free from all the other day to day thoughts so that I always walk away refreshed. I'm not stating my bonsai table is an altar but it certainly has a beneficial effect on my mental health.
Bonsai is more than just trees - it is mind - spirit and your entire being!
Being one with nature helps with my ASD,ADHD and Asperger's it's why I enjoy gardening and creating stock for future bonsai, I have a 19 yr old T tree which started me off 4 years ago😊
Thank you 🙏
👏👏👏 Beautiful. Lovely to meet you Clive 👋
Great guest.
Thank you 🌿🙏
Great video. At the end of the day the aim of bonsai is to recreate nature's beauty in miniature form.if you can stand back and see a representation of a full size tree in the distance you have achieved your goal. Yes there are established "rules" but to my mind they've always been a guide not the ultimate goal. After all if you're constantly fighting a tree to bend it to your will rather than adapting and trying to work with what it gives you it will never look its best.
Very well put
Beautiful discussion
SA representing love it guys.....🌲🌳🌴
🙌🌿🙏
Amazing bonsai, amazing guest!
Thank you 🙏🌿
Great video hope to meet you some cheers 😊
You have to consider that trees have a very different idea of time. everything they do takes much more time than what we are used too.
Some day
Hi I would like to know where I can get those awesome mica pots in the US
I dont know the US situation
@@peterchan3100 Thank you Peter I am a big fan here in Connecticut I know that you don't ship outside of England, so I was wondering if there ws an Asian contact that will ship to the states
Hello and good afternoon, I just re-potted my bonsai a week ago or so. She lost all her leaves about 6 weeks ago probably and I have gotten no new growth since. The day I changed the soil, the old soil had a white layer on the top!! I'm not sure what it was, mold, mildew, eggs, fuzzies. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture. Is this normal for this time of year?? I live in the PNW in WA. I feel like this is the first time I have experienced this. I have had her for at least 4 years.
Hi Peter I'm not quite sure if you said? But what tree is this?
Picea nidiformis
Can anyone tell me what type of tree they are working on Thanks
Picea Nidiformis 🌿
Thank you @@tobeabonsai
Personally i do believe that the process of "taking care" of a plant or person (very different things) can help you with motivation and attention. Sadly both are living elements so plants and people will leave you (or you will lose them). Enjoy the time you have with them. Sometimes i feel overwhelmed and anxious because i have something/somebody to care about. honestly for me it's like a balance between happiness and sadness.
Very well expressed!
Same, Bonsai saved me from my ADHD depression.
I think Clive is the grandson of Biggles?
Ha Ha ! I used to read those comics too - glasses aside.
Anyone know how trees communicate through sound? 🤔
They must do but our human mind has not yet learnt to comprehend these mysteries
Baie lekker om vir n slag n Afrikaner te sien op hierie program.
👍👌🙂
We have scientific data proving that trees do communicate with one another. I’ve read some of them. Plants can make very high sounds that a human ear can’t hear. In case of danger trees tell every other trees about it. In their own way. There’s a kind of special scent plants produce on some occasions - that’s like a language. And.
A frightening thing: trees feel when they are cut. And tell other trees about this danger. So, what’s going in a bonsai centre?
Not any different than being grazed upon in nature. It's about balance
They do communicate, although not on a conscious way like humans!(as far as known/proven) When there are under attack by pests they release a sort of hormone/smell to be less attractive. Other plants/trees react on that and start the same process.
@@e-nglish635 and plants make noise to! When they dry out they(maybe not al plants) make a popping sound,not detectable for humans. Some think it is communicating of some sort or a cry for help. Science(so far) knows it is the implosion/collapse of cell walls because of dehydration.
@@e-nglish635there has been a misconception about mycorrhizal beeing like a big internet/communicating thing in old forests between different trees. Later research showed that trees can communicate without that mycorrhizal presence in the soul. Simple communication about treaths they evolved with, like pests and fungi. Surviving,that is where it is all about. That doesn’t mean they have fear/emotions.
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I do and prefer natural bonsai. The Art bonsai trees are nice but they look artificial to me. Give me a tree that looks like a tree. Thank you Peter. Enjoyed the video❤
Same as in the human realm, the more we strip away the more we see what we were always meant to be.
yes, its still a bush with straight branchlets. Not a bonsai at all...
We are all different
why are your wearing sunglasses?
They are reactive glasses - reactive to light. I remember using them about 30 years ago!
@@rainbow12361 I have abit of an eye condition and I am very sensitive to light 🌿
Sorry. Got to say it. Looks like a Jurassic fern. Don't like the look of that at all. The pot did not suit it either.