An Early Spring Bonsai Bench Tour, The Bonsai Zone, April 2022

[@fantasticomanga]

Always gets me with the French lilac 🤣

[@mattbrennan647]

So now I can add green house envy to my annual bench envy I suffer when touring your collection. Just beautiful. Thanks, keep growing

[@baldyeti]

Daggum, your hardy trees are really gettin a head start being in the greenhouse. The avatar grove and larch forest are so far advanced already! The French lilac bit is just friggen entertaining. Puts a smile on my face with every cameo.

[@7puggiescyndycarruthers193]

so nice to see old and new friends in the light of a beautiful Spring day… many thanks, Nigel!

[@pattivermeersch7348]

What a great bench tour…that nightshade is crazy..thanks for saving the hibiscus flowers

[@carolholt416]

Always love the bench tours! Gawd I love the Royal Oaks. ❤

[@TheBonsaiGarden]

I love to see a bench tour, they are always so informative and interesting - seeing what others have in their collections, what they are developing, what methods and techniques they are using, and where they see the trees developing. 👍

[@craft-o-matic2377]

I do love the updates! So much to look forward to! Thanks Nigel! LIsa

[@natrjack965]

I must say Nigel your collection is amazing truly amazing I am green with envy I hope one day to have a collection nearly as good as yours...

[@otterwench]

I always enjoy your bench tours. thank you!

[@jokesterk5302]

They are all,or at lest the most of them are florishing,that must be a good feeling,sure they're glacd to have you around,it shows! Good to see they do well,thanks for sharing!

[@johnpereira9594]

I love the birds nest spruce.

[@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951]

Winter is tough. Some make it and some do not. But. What are ya gonna do? That's life. The ones that make it are the tough ones. You sure have a great team of tough bonsai, though, growing and are strong survivors. Super!

[@pattivermeersch7348]

And always love the the French lilac music😁

[@pattin4015]

Such a huge family of bonsai - all grown by you... It's so incredible, to imagine the hours spent taking care of them! I've started with 6-7 this spring (some taken from the ground and others from larger pots). I learned some techniques of grooming the roots and it's amazing how plants adapt to the smaller bonsai pots. Successful new growth already. Thanks for sharing your experience and skills! It's nice to see the growth of your babies too.

[@Johnblackbass]

Love this garden tour, and wow, what a collection you have, so impressive ! It's also funny to watch spring coming 1 month after us here in France :p. This mistery plant looks like a Wisteria, the leaf system is quite similar, but i'm probably wrong. Happy spring time Nigel !

[@robyncollins7956]

Spring is a wonderful time of the year and I can hear the renewed excitement in your voice for the growing season, thanks for showing your collection, always an inspiration. It is midway through Autumn here, I am waiting for dormancy to re pot a few plants, and prune, wait out the winter and enjoy Spring again,

[@BlueJayBonsai]

Great updates! Thanks Nigel!

[@scotthogbin613]

Another great video Nigel, i must admit it makes me a little jealous your entering spring as im in Australia and its entering winter😑

[@ck8313]

Most of the trees look good 😊

[@filipegomes1520]

Hello Nigel! I wish you a hundred wishes.

[@marysoldeeley2218]

You are definitely in spring! Wonderful tour.

[@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951]

Xin did a great job building the box pots and repotting for you.

[@PatriciaOConnorBonsaiBalcony]

What a beautiful Day Nigel!

[@merondyan]

always love that french lilac part haha

[@patsfreund9164]

Loved seeing that hybiscus in flower. It is a very beautiful one. Really enjoyed seeing the update video. So exciting to see everything beginning to grow in spring.

[@-ChrisD]

Very enjoyable. Thanks for the updates!

[@artspired7375]

Thanks for the bench tour, Nigel. On smokebush - I have two growing in the garden here in the UK, and it’s always one of the last come into leaf. My oaks in pots just starting to break out from buds, and maples have been out for a couple of weeks. So hopefully your smokebush may still have a chance!

[@jamesn7156]

I remember a few years ago when I started following your channel you mentioned having 70-something trees. I feel like you’ve collected a few more trees since then.

[@nancyfahey7518]

Quite a collection. Lookin' good.

[@MaybeBonsai]

Great tour Nigel, seems everything is ready to go!

[@peacecosmonaut176]

I love the tour videos=)

[@artempaliychuk8881]

My fav type of videos ;)

[@thebonsaiarea]

always nice garden walk, yes spring is a very nice time in the bonsai world! looks green and healthy the trees nigel.

[@growgardening]

Amazing tree Nigel. I was actually going to suggest a wisteria bonsai, but it seems you beat me to it. Would you please dedicate some videos to the work you do on it, cause I have had nothing but failure with even just growing a wisteria out! Money into the compost bin! The ficus cirica is something I am also super keen on following, as I have a couple I'm working on. Looking forward to seeing you work on all the trees!

[@sophiaangelini4368]

-Avatar Grove- is a capolavoro- most worthy of Greenhouse LIfe.

[@JackC1961]

👍 Loving the Acacia's. Mine not as good but they are 1 year behind yours.

[@hamr58]

Your Desert Rose may have had a small injury to the root at the time of planting it a few weeks ago when I saw the video of that display. I have grown a lot of them from seed over the past 8 years with what you have shown today that plant doesn't have to end up in the compost heap. When the fungal disease causes the root to rot, if we scrap out all the decay letting it sit on top of a free-draining mix supported by normally a half-filled plastic pot the trunk will start producing new roots, that can then be cultured to radial roosts instead of the natural tap root. I have two plants currently that had too much water held in the organic part of the mix I use undergoing first-aid presently where I'm trying to reverse the decay we see initially as sponginess I'm doing the same as the above method left 20mm of mix in the bottom of 125mm plastic pots until they reharden.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thanks, I'll have to try, great advice!!

[@kreativ_corals]

Very interesting. Your deciduous trees like the red maples and oaks (even your seedlings) are almost exactly in the same stages as mine. I live in Northern Florida :) So well done with extending your growing season with that green house! Thanks for sharing.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Interesting! Thanks!

[@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951]

Oaks. Sprouting. Great. My Oak seeds are still fast asleep.

[@arnoldmmbb]

Almonds need a lot of sun to grow well, put them outside in the greenhouse if you can

[@briangmurray6367]

Hi Nigel, are your Baobabs still doing well (I do not recall seeing them in the update)?

[@baked_broz]

Do you ever use low stress training like how they do cannabis to any of your plants? As in tying the stalk directly to the side of the pot after tipping and allow only the arms to grow up and take over as your main branches while keeping the trunk bent over?

[@peterlandry8809]

Thanks for all the videos Nigel , I've learned so much about bonsai by watching them . I have a few Ficus questions that I would love to ask you . How does one get a hold of you ?

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Here is my email address... [e-mail]

[@donnaikin7397]

Hi Nigel, loved the tour. I don’t recall hearing an update on your cottoneaster tree. How is it doing? Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe you don’t have one and I’m mistaken. If I am sorry about that. With love from Australia 🇦🇺

[@TheBonsaiZone]

It's doing well so far, looking nice and green!

[@arnoldmmbb]

Mistery plant I think its a pepper tree Schinus molle

[@SJKurd]

The snake scared me 😅

[@Matt6644]

Have you ever exhibited the African style Serrisa?

[@stuartrose7628]

Hi Nigel i had a problem with bark aphid on my Chinese elm, i submerged it in a bucket of water for half hour and it seems to have drowned them

[@potreliefbonsaibatu5035]

CooL

[@michadaek6787]

Can you please, give some advice how to grow ficus from cuttings? I’m struggling with that, I have a feeling, that they are not rooting at all, and I have tried it in water then in soil, but still nothing. Do I need to cut only fresh, new branches to do that?

[@lukasmihara]

10:55 Hm, I was sceptical about your Japanese grey bark elm before, but now after having a closer look at its leaves etc. I'm even more sceptical... I'm not sure if there are different varieties but yours unfortunately doesn't look like a _Zelkova serrata_ to me. Its leaves shouldn't be that shiny and they should be a bit more pointy at the tip. I think if you do a quick google search, you'll see what I mean. I wonder what it actually is though...

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Yes, I'm not sure either, there are 6 species in the Zelkova family, it might be one of them!

[@Boru06]

Hi Nigel, I have a couple of goodies to send you, how can I get them over to your good self? Do you have a P.O box?

[@uhaneokalanijames8029]

how are the lithops?

[@TheBonsaiZone]

They are doing well, not many changes to them lately, I'll have to put them out in the greenhouse soon!

[@d00rn]

water for squishy

[@punyarthshukla9812]

Foist!!!

[@georgesenju8665]

First!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

George is Foisty!!!

[@sophiaangelini4368]

NOT FOIST BUT ATTENTIVE AND ADMIRATIVE

[@anthonyarmstrong7313]

Furst