Collecting My Largest Bonsai, Part 3, The Bonsai Zone, June 2019

[@blackwater4707]

I enjoyed that little foray into the UK. It is a good reminder of how time is the one thing that we can't make. A several hundred-year-old tree simply can't be replaced. They should be protected because the alternative is waiting several hundred years and no one has time for that. ; )

[@SidsTrees]

Part 3 already! Thanks Nigel. Some really great styling tips. Looking forward to part 4. Cheers. Sid.

[@SidsTrees]

Many of our oldest Yew trees are in churchyards because they were considered sacred long before Christianity came to Britain. When they built the churches they built them on existing sacred sites .ie right next to a Yew tree! Cheers. Sid

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Lots of wonderful trees in the UK, thanks Sid, all the best!

[@SidsTrees]

@Brian Bankai Hi 👍

[@webster1181]

Nigel’s got the purest videos on KZbin

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Pure tree excitement!

[@jeremymacritchie8566]

Have you ever watched Townsends? kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIe0eaKNnb6Ggqc

[@jimdoyel5044]

Good three part series. I learned a lot about Yews. Thank you, Nigel.

[@omietopi]

All the very old trunks look so very beautiful that I got goosebumps. Thank you so much for filming the trunks in details and also for showing the DVD. Brilliant !

[@TheBonsaiZone]

I hope the tree survives the winter, it is still alive today, but not doing really well.

[@gavins.6109]

Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone is it still alive today? I’m planning on digging up a texas live oak this winter.

[@n8tyler]

Wow what a great tree...Can't wait to see its journey under your care...Thanks for sharing Nigel...

[@TheBonsaiZone]

This one didn't make it, it slowly died over the summer. I went too hard on the roots!

[@HerbandRoots]

Great to see the remarks about the features of the trees in the wild. Can't wait to see how this one evolves.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you, it has a good foundation to build on!

[@jwkoeniger]

The thing I like MOST about your videos AND about bonsai in general is the distinct absence of high technology. Yes, I know you're using modern video recording and you use the interweb and the DVD from Mr. Watson, but fundamentally the core of bonsai and your work is ORGANIC. Yes, I know perlite, turface, anodized aluminum wire, etc., are artificial in their own way and yes, I know bonsai is artificial manipulation of plant cells, but God I love the feel of it so much more than electronics, iPads, and iPods! Thank you, again, for a great tutorial on Yews...love the photography and how your camera work caresses the bark and the live veins. Very artistic, even poetic. I learn so much from your work.

[@OddityUnleashed]

I love watching your videos; you go into full detail about how and why you enact various bonsai training techniques. Your page has taught me a great deal about the care for my young trees in the years to come as I continue this new hobby. Thank you and keep the videos coming!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you Sean, lots more coming your way!

[@joeldowty6928]

Key phrase “Lots more videos to come...”, great looking tree and an awesome road trip! So glad you’re doing what you obviously love.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you Joel, I do really like finding cool trees and making videos of them!

[@deploribusunum3894]

Herons Bonsai showed one of the church trees that was so large and hollow that it had a door and people used to have tea parties in it. I never knew they were used to make bows! Great video!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you, I guess that slow growth and flexible wood is the best for bows!

[@deploribusunum3894]

Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone I had someone show me where someone had dug up and dumped some of these bushes in a mulch dump here. By the time I saw them it was too late. They were huge too! Made me sick.

[@herveydoerr-rolley9241]

What I really like about you Nigel is that you style your trees how they would naturally form in the wild rather then into specific styles almost all bonsai enthusiast go for, I appreciate how you take a different approach to it, good work. Best bonsai channel out there in my opinion

[@bonsaitherapy1468]

This is why I love your videos. You go all in, Mr. Saunders. Well done!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you, I wish I could go see the trees over in the U.K., they look amazing!

[@elizabethh5684]

any update on this guy? im so curious to see how you're styling it!

[@grobonsai]

Nice inspiration there, thanks for sharing. Taxus make great bonsai, I’d love a top quality yew. I’m going to enjoy your updates on this one, for sure.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank Yew, I hope mine makes it through it's first year!

[@indianheritage7839]

Can’t tell how much I enjoy your Chanel

[@TheBonsaiZone]

You just did, thanks very much!!!

[@R_H21]

I like the trunk on this tree!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you!

[@paulopaiva4580]

Awesome Nigel! Such a spectacle! Congratulations on the soundtrack !!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

I really like Savfk's music, really good stuff!

[@paulopaiva4580]

Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone ok Nigel seus vídeos são bastante motivadores, realmente o material disponível em seu país é maravilhoso!!! Penso que fazer bonsai, é um desafio diário! Um forte abraço amigo!

[@BonsaiJCan]

Awesome video with some amazing footage of very old yew trees. I like the red colour under the bark I think that's really cool looking, just amazing trees really. I definitely am looking forward to updates on your yew bonsai !

[@shahrafiq2165]

Wen we have part 4 thanks nigel

[@BackGardenBonsai]

That’s one powerful looking trunk you’ve got there. I love yews. Especially the red colour of the bark

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you, I hope mine lives for a long, long time!

[@dotjelieveke]

Lovely tree. Looking forward to see it develop. Another great video. Thanks, Nigel!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thanks you, it's still green so far!

[@Steves_Backyard_Bonsai]

The video excited me, not so much to the styling of yews in particular, but about your process in general. Very inspiring. You’ve discussed the tree in nature as the styling model many times, but this lesson really drove the message home. Thank you Nigel. So here you go! Steve in St. James

[@waveInfinite]

Relaxing and beautiful videos thank you!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

[@mattbrennan647]

Go for it Nigel. Beautiful specimen with fantastic potential. Thanks

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you Matt, I'll do my best with it!

[@Darkfire1300]

Some other artists leave me a bit daunted. You make me WANT to be be adventuresome and learn to be a bonsai artist. Thanks!!!!! for your inspiration, practical advice and pearls of wisdom about how to "do something green" today!

[@louisecolombi6630]

it’s a very beautiful tree. Thank you for sharing

[@patsfreund9164]

WOW! What a great video!! Truly enjoyed seeing the yew trees in the park and in the reserve in England. A good starting point - looking at these trees in nature. Glad to see this plant sprouting. It has lots of potential for your styling. Will try to patiently wait for updates, but it will be difficult. Thanks for sharing.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you Pat, I'll try and give regular updates to it's progress!

[@JackC1961]

Kingley Vale is 30 miles (50 Km) away from me. I will have to visit the place I think, looks great, as does your Yew tree.

[@Ollieslife101]

Those r beautiful I wanna try my luck with a yew I'm removing from my yard this spring

[@bigshortstack2929]

Nigel, the history lesson you give on the Yew forest in the UK is/was extremely interesting. Thank you for giving it. Speaking of history, one of your early videos of you and your son on a scouting trip into the woods looking for yamadori (sp) prospects, one of the first "shots" was of a fairly large tree that came almost straight out from a bank for a few feet and then turned straight up. The first thing that I thought of when I saw it was a trail marker formed by some native Americans. Those were used quite a lot in the U.S. for marking the good, reliable, LONG trails through the woods; especially through dense woods. I'd almost bet that if you were to follow the direction indicated by that one tree, you'd find another one somewhere not too far away.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you, I have been watching some videos on these trail marker trees, a very interesting bit of history indeed!

[@steampunkvampyre]

This is also interesting Nigel just ten miles from where I live “Who stood here when the tree was young?” Reviewed 22 October 2014 As you drive through the village of Llangernyw, on the A548 between Abergele and Llanrwst in north Wales, take time to stop and look around the church of St. Digian. The church is impressive and has a good history. Just as impressive is the old yew tree that stands in the church grounds just in front of the church door. Yew trees were thought to keep evil spirits away so there is a good possibility the ground here was "evil spirit free". It has been hard for the age of the tree to be exactly dated due to the damage to its bole but experts believe it could be anything between 4000 and 4500 years old. Just think, that is 2000 years before Christianity began. Who stood here as the tree was ageing? I wonder. There is a small free car park just south of the village on the left side of the road.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

They're incredible trees and you're lucky to live so close to one, apparently there a quite a few ancient yews growing in churchyards across Wales,England,and Ireland. I have a wonderful photo my dad took years ago of the Much Marcle Yew in Herefordshire hanging in my cottage.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

It is hard to imagine the same tree so long ago! Our human lives are so short in comparison. Thanks, wonderful comment!

[@hogdog567]

colin macdonald I've been to see this exact tree, it's incredible to see just how robust and healthy it still is, still producing new growth. It looks like it has many more millennia left in it.

[@steampunkvampyre]

@@hogdog567 yes something so old, make you feel humble when you touch it

[@hectordehesa2118]

The new camera looks great! Always a pleasure sir. Cheers

[@ErikPukinskis]

Wow, love this approach to the styling/design episodes! Nice format with the footage and the voiceover.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you Erik!

[@lakeelsinorebonsai1203]

Another great video Nigel! I love Yew Trees! 😏

[@annebrunner3649]

Excellent video. Thank you Nigel.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank Yew RetroGal!

[@haisty]

Amazing series. Any updates on this tree? can't seem to find an update video but i might be in the wrong. Love ur videos Nigel!

[@MikeyDunn]

I just realised that some of the trees in a local park that I took pictures of a few years ago are Yews, doh! There was one smaller fanned out clump, a few relatively upright multi-trunks, and a couple of single-stem trees. I'll have to go back for more pics when it stops raining, might be a few days the way the weather is here in England currently, lol!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Stay dry Mikey, we're due for a rainy week here also!

[@stephenhyatt82]

Hi Nigel I created a bonsai from one of these. Sent you a few pics and questions on instagram. Nice to the name of this tree. Love the style of it.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Hello Ste, I don't manage the Instagram account, but it's good to hear you you have a yew!

[@haznov]

i can't wait to see part 4

[@digantabayan2649]

Hi Nigel, Quite an extensive research before styling your tree. This is what I always admire about your work. You always go deep down to the roots of every aspect. This is what distinguishes 'The Bonsai Zone' with other bonsai channel. Keep up the good work. 👍

[@bonsaihigh]

Right! Its not like any cookie cutters its all natural.

[@TonyNguyenFR]

All this talk about ridges, veins, and trunks has got me feeling some kind of way.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Trees Tony, I'm talking trees!

[@bonsaihigh]

Amazing video. I really apreciate the take at min 12:58 beautiful tree! 💚 Definately need to add one to my collection.

[@PinkGoldPetch]

I have so much respect for this thumbnail

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you!

[@HikeBikePhoto]

This channel is a treasure

[@fredgrech1498]

Fascinating video

[@tammyedmonds4851]

Thank you for all the videos that you post. It seems that spring time is the time to dig out prospective bonsai, prune, and to re-pot if necessary older bonsai. What is to be done to bonsai during the summer months?

[@TheBonsaiZone]

I try to keep the trees as healthy as possible in the summer, good watering, feeding, weeding and also some pruning to keep the trees in check. I look at summer as a period of growth for the tree, they need to gain as much energy as possible to get them through the winter in good shape.

[@tammyedmonds4851]

@@TheBonsaiZone Thank you, Mr. Saunders.

[@sophiaangelini4368]

Thank you Bonsai Zone and Mr Watson for this visit to the Sacred grove of Druids and Yews.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Yes, it was nice to see the ancient trees!

[@entyropy3262]

Yew trees have a rich biodiversity, some grow like bushes naturally, others grow really tall, there is no typical overall structure I would say, but since they can grow very well in full shade, they grow branches everywhere they can and never give up backbudding. I know a lot about them already, since I have a balcony which is in full shade except for like 5 minutes in the morning, and I decided to get some Yews and other highly shade tolerant trees to finally make some outdoor bonsais. The only disadvantage is, they all grow so slow. But it's ok, I still have many much faster growing tree species indoors.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thanks, a good pick for a shade tree, Hemlock might be another good one for your conditions!

[@entyropy3262]

@@TheBonsaiZone Thx, I made some cuttings already a few weeks ago, and I collected at least 100 seeds of some Hemlock (probably Tsuga canadensis). I will also get Fagus sylvatica and a small leaved Acer.

[@Silencio.Voluntad]

Hi Nigel, good vibes from Costa Rica, love your videos

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you Meli, glad you liked it!

[@trik2o]

Is there an update on this? I have a few yews I'm grooming for harvest.

[@thabest007]

Here at the oldest botanical garden in the world we have a yew which grew tall, then bent over 90 degrees for some reason and from the curve all branches grew perfectly upright. It's very interesting looking. I also have a yew cutting but it's not growing, any idea why? I potted it up over 4 months ago and it's still alive so it must have roots, yet no growth up top

[@pansepot1490]

My yew cuttings stayed alive for months in the propagation box, they even started growing but when I checked no roots.

[@paulagoller7893]

Watching yew tree old videos. Did you style the yew and make updates videos? Can’t find on KZbin.

[@Nhoj31neirbo47]

Taxus baccata willingness to back bud on trunks and very old wood helps facilitate the Bonsai process. ~ A very interesting natural yew forest known as the Khosta Yew Tree Grove is in the Caucasian State Natural Biosphere Reserve, aka the Tiso-Samshitovaya Roshcha. Unfortunately, the yt videos about it are all in Russian, which I don’t understand. (For anyone interested in ancient yews and old trees in general , a visit to my Trees and Forest #2 playlist might be enjoyable.)

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you, nice to see some playlists like this exist! I'm surprised how many Yew tree videos there are on KZbin, maybe it should be called YewTube!

[@whollylostandgone]

My question is how the heck did they find straight enough ones to make longbows?

[@soberhippie]

"Heron's bonsai" has a very interesting video on yews, too. They are located in Britain and Peter showed some of the oldest trees around.

[@PlantObsessed]

I can see how easy it would be to go nuts with pareidolia in that yew forest. They are almost human looking.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

I'd get out of there before sunset for sure!

[@edmundblackaddercoc8522]

I think the oldest Yew we have here in the U.K(possibly the world) is in Scotland in a cemetery, sorry I forget the name.

[@hogdog567]

edmund blackadder coc it's controversial as there's no way to age them accurately but there is one in North Wales and one in mid Wales that are estimated to be as much as 5000 years old.

[@edmundblackaddercoc8522]

@@hogdog567 agree, but I think the one in Scotland has had a dendrochronolical drill plug done on it, this is all I know, hence they claim it to be the oldest.

[@newingtonrock4562]

@@edmundblackaddercoc8522 It's the Fortingall Yew. Almost certainly the oldest living thing in the UK; possibly the oldest living thing in Europe and a very slim chance it's the oldest living thing on the planet

[@edmundblackaddercoc8522]

@@newingtonrock4562 Thank you, I forgot the place but I know someone around there, they told me this quite a few years ago.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

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[@mycool8980]

Your yew tree kind of reminds me of a windswept style

[@benbishop1131]

wasn't it Mark Twain that said, there's 2 things certain in this world, death and Taxus ;) I could be wrong. (awesome trees you show here)

[@1958bytor]

I see what yew did there.

[@benbishop1131]

@@1958bytor haha

[@rachelwebber3605]

I hadn't realized how different the English yew is from the Pacific yew! I've always wanted a Pacific yew bonsai, but since the trees are a threatened species, I'll need to germinate them myself. And sadly that's going to be a few years in the future, as I haven't yet found arils and I'm living on the East Coast now.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Interesting, I do hope you get them started, they are grand trees!

[@AlexandreGil3166]

Hi, I can't find a follow up on this tree on the channel if anyone knows which video I should watch and could point me to them that would be amazing thank you 😊

[@gwicker12]

Quick question. Do you have indoor bonsai other than your plant room ? If so, how about a tour. Do you and the wife have indoor plants of other types ?

[@TheBonsaiZone]

No, basically all the indoor plants are in the plant room, my wife does start Tomatoes in the windows in spring.

[@gwicker12]

@@TheBonsaiZone Thanks for the reply. Keep up the great work !!!

[@coreartalex6708]

7:22 it looks like a Yew Throne!!!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Yes it does, I'd hate to have to count the number of trunks!

[@adrianjones2938]

The ancient Yew at Much Marcle is hollow and has a bench inside you can sit in.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Very cool, I bet it's a little spooky too!

[@marysoldeeley2218]

Very Cool!!!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you, they are wonderful trees!

[@superessio2982]

In my city the is a small public garden whit 7 yew that are over 250 years old and they are really similar at your yew. If you want I can send you some photos.

[@LittleHugBaby]

awesome video! One question, Nigel, how can i send to you some photos of my bonsai here in Brasil?

[@TheBonsaiZone]

You can send pics to... [e-mail] Thanks Erick!

[@AlbertLAbbey]

Ohh my God, how brave you are cutting conifers roots

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Brave or foolish, time will tell!

[@Wild_Cannon]

Hi Nigel, do you know where I can get a jade tree? I'm in the US.

[@jagatkelana]

Good luck brother

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you, we've been having good rainy weather to help the tree grow!

[@OskyPinamar]

I would like your video twice if I could! PS: 9000 years old... OMG!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you Oscar, yes hard to imagine something alive for so long!

[@johnthehotty]

New camera I see 😍

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Yes indeed, check out this episode.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKGtZoWKm5irjKc

[@ashwarirai]

wooo plesur to see 2k yrs old tree

[@davidcanetti6927]

I have aliways had a thing about yew trees, my biggest mistake was moving to a smaller property, I moved the yew bonsai into the very small garden and burried it within flve years it was 8 feet tall ? what a waste

[@domeniccosta5579]

👍

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thanks!

[@tesuji2000]

Not about Bonsai --- but Congrats for the Raptors --- Grass Valley, Ca ( near Oakland CA )

[@hollymunfordbloe4744]

Wow!

[@erikzellers2925]

We'll never find another yew.

[@chrisrosario1656]

Make your yew tree look like the twin truck in the video

[@scottsaree1972]

DO it my way ,i love say this words

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you Scott, sounds Shakespearean!.

[@shvshvhkv8608]

👌👌👌...!!!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you Sunit!!!

[@SuperPeleke]

I don't care what anybody says. That yew forest is creepy. It's probably even creepier at night.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Very true, right out of a scary fairy tail!

[@Minstera]

foistsai

[@TheBonsaiZone]

A Foist tray planting!

[@Tony-ys3yo]

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[@TheBonsaiZone]

ice old trees!

[@tomvandessel2981]

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[@TheBonsaiZone]

Top Five!

[@maryshoemaker1437]

Foirst

[@blakelanders6966]

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[@TheBonsaiZone]

iorFst

[@juliansaunders8721]

Foist

[@maximyarmolik1726]

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[@TheBonsaiZone]

Julian you are Foist again!

[@qk8522]

Dude it looks like your cat died on your head and you glued it on place get yourself a better hair piece bro

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you, I was going for the dead ground hog look, so a cat is much better! Thank you very much for the comment!

[@merlin4real]

Looking for zone 3 bonsai and this is all I find. Entertaining, not ideal.