The Toronto Bonsai Society's Spring Show and Sale 2023, The Bonsai Zone, May 2023

[@michaelmason4206]

Super video. Thanks for the tour.

[@percyacutt3110]

Video so much better without public all over, great show!

[@Tore1972Wisdom]

Waauuu that Wisteria is so beautiful.

[@bonsaibythesea]

Thanks Nigel nice trees 😮

[@rebeccahunter725]

The wisteria at 7:30 is an impressive tree even without flowers - quite a feat to achieve! I love having the opportunity to visit an international show from the comfort of my home - no international travel or passport required, thank you!

[@dominicko79]

I really appreciated the first minute 1:20 of this video. The breaking of a new day is something to pay homage to. You hosted tones was a lovely implied greeting of the day.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

It was an awesome sunrise!!!

[@robryan9841]

Thank you so much for the tour i really loved the stones 👏👏👏

[@peacecosmonaut176]

Thank you

[@jballenger9240]

Loved the private tour and unobstructed views. Thank you. Your Miniature Bonsai Zone had quite the prominent placement. It looked wonderful and inviting!!! The Bog Forest told its story well and, the Bird’s Nest looked beautiful, very proper and dignified! The stand was a good choice. Thank you also for ALL the cinematography effort and work, sharing and narrating. Nigel. you and the Bonsai Zone, chickens, ducks, cats and bunnies are a gift and very much appreciated. Live long and prosper🖖🪴🪴🪴

[@t3dwards13]

Very well stated!!!

[@mhylton]

Thanks for sharing.

[@StevesBackyardBonsai]

Wow. Just wow! Thanks for that amazing tour. Cheers.

[@svensvenson6565]

thx

[@kenfrea]

Thank you Nigel

[@Boldo75]

The hut stone would look great with a baobab

[@beth7467]

I'm so glad the imposing brown bear bonsai made an appearance!

[@PercyWarX]

Sorry did not know about Ross, worked some amazing trees on your channel, especially that Schefflera root over rock and got me motivated to get an schefflera for myself. Always hard to lose a someone and I'm glad you stayed strong and Motivated. Amazing Show and Love from South Africa.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thanks Percy, I was looking forward to his visit this summer to work on trees and hang out. Ross was a great guy to spend the day with!

[@harrietb2141]

Thanks for sharing,a lot of beatiful trees there😍🌳And the Stones are amazing

[@raymondplodzien7459]

Looked like a great show. Loved your miniature bonsai bench display!

[@FrostBiteBonsai]

Wow! Like a private viewing! I love when you post these.💚❤ I've been seeing your displays pop up on Facebook. The mini bench turned out great! Thank you so much Nigel!

[@TonysBonsai]

Thanks for the tour Nigel, especially for showing those amazing rocks!

[@TheBonsaiZone]

I've never seen anything close to those kind of rocks in all my adventures, I'm convinced they are collected from a different planet!!!

[@TonysBonsai]

I agree. I'm going to have to go rock hunting!

[@OliverJazzz]

Thanks for showing the accent plants up close as well! Great tour 🌞👌

[@gayefanner731]

Thanku for the private tour in the empty hall with no distractions. I particularly liked the Accent Plant feature accompanied by the lovely music. Well done Nigel and God bless you 🙏✝️. ✌️🇷🇺☮️🇺🇦✌️

[@mattbrennan647]

Wonderful tour. Thank you Nigel for your narration.

[@pamelahanel7584]

Wonderful tour. Beautiful trees, rocks and accent plants. The wisteria with all those flowers was really impressive. Thank you for sharing.

[@denisewa]

25:10 is my favorite display....looks great Nigel... love the final arrangement details on and around the bench. And the cocaine bear to top it off! Thank you for the perfect tour of the whole show.

[@patsfreund9164]

What a BEAUTIFUL exposition of bonsai trees. I really LOVED the wisteria and the flowering apple and quinces. Of course, your entries were wonderful. Such nice accent plants and rock displays. Thanks so much for sharing.

[@SamDoeckeAussiebonsaibloke]

Beautiful show Nigel. Thanks for the tour ❤

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thanks Sam, I'm glad you enjoyed the show!!!

[@watsup6084]

What an epic show. Lots of larch

[@RADsLife]

I really like how a lot of those display stones have wooden bases that are carved/cut to be the same shape as the rock itself. Very cool!

[@aaronleslie1581]

Wow what a show!! All stunning trees!! I can’t believe your brought the birds nest spruce!!!!!

[@tinjoesstation]

This was a great show and chat session!

[@Dave_0993_I]

5:00 That's a great shot from below. Makes me think there could be a potential for a mirror in a bonsai display, looking up from under?

[@GreenhornBonsai]

Thanks for the tour, Nigel! So many great trees! And the little strawberry blooming as an accent plant with the crab apple in flower was perfect timing.

[@t3dwards13]

Thank you for this Sir Nigel!!! What a great way to start my day! It was nice that you were able to give us a private tour. I'm now convinced of getting a crab apple and wisteria this year. I'm really happy you've shown the suiseki. I'm actually studying how to make the bases. I also loved that we all got new accent ideas! I'm sure you'll tell us how your bench did. You know we're dying to know. Thank you again!!!

[@jonathanaristone2468]

Great coverage as always Nigel. That mini watering can on your mini bench was a special touch. Exceptional trees to garner inspiration. We will make it to the fall show I hope. Thanks Nigel !

[@Liisa3139]

Hard to pick a favorite from such a fine show. I always fall for the flowers. Amazing wisterias - both in full bloom and just starting to put out leaves and flowers. Wow! And the crab apples, gorgeous! But my biggest inspiration may have been the accent plants, because I realized that I can dig up some nice little plants in my garden and have them on my city balcony in some nice pots. I'm definitely going to do that.

[@t3dwards13]

Great idea! To share an idea in kind... I've built shelves for a garden on my mom's balcony. Utilize the walls, and you could hang shelves from the ceiling in front of the glass.

[@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951]

So many fascinating and unique looking trees at the show. Nice accent plants also. Stones are really cool. A nice relaxing evening video with great narration to watch with a cup of tea. Excellent video!

[@Chris-oq6kn]

That was a great video nigel! Thanks alot. Those rocks are incredible. Ur telling me no one ever chisels them or does anything to make them look better? They were amazing. Great trees also

[@Dylan-ok6ft]

I really enjoyed the quiet tour of the show trees 😊. The bustle of the show can be exciting, but in video it kind of takes attention away from the trees.

[@abdulrehaman-kx4ee]

No one does forest planting better then you Nigel.. your forest are so pleasing to watch

[@toniomalley5661]

Thank you so much for this opportunity to share with you the wonderful work I have just found you and your channel you have reawakened my interest in bonsai,I have Parkinson’s and I think this would be great for me many thanks again from Ireland

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Thank you so much!

[@Alepoudiitsa]

i have 3 box wood and i found 3 there i think i will try to make them like that hehe. i realy realy love the ones with the flowers on them i don't know why the speck to me more then the others.

[@SequoiaElisabeth]

My favorite of this show is at 24:11, the formal upright. It always surprises me how few formal uprights there are these days. They are the icon of the hobby and very difficult to get right. I suppose that is why so few of them make it to shows.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Yes, that Larch is quite the tree!

[@dkstott29]

There were 2 surprises for me. #1 I didn't see any jade or portulacaria afra in the show video's. #2. I was surprised to see so many trees there with wires on them. My understanding was that wires were a major no-no on trees at shows. 🤔🤔

[@Dylan-ok6ft]

25:00 That bear 🐻!!!

[@brucedeacon28]

🙂👍👌👌

[@jesperFrost]

Before I see the video: I’m really curious about how people react to your bench!

[@тахирсафиуллин-з8ж]

Nigel Saunders, великолепная выставка интересных bonsai . Профессиональная съёмка, грамотный ракурс . Желаю удачи.

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Большое спасибо, мне очень понравилось шоу!!

[@ig7806]

amazing show! do we know which tree won best in show?

[@TheBonsaiZone]

Best in show was the two Blue Rug Junipers styled like an ancient forest trees!

[@Liisa3139]

It was shocking to hear that Ross has passed away. I remember him from your videos together. Hard to believe that he didn't make it to the shows this year. He seemed like a really nice guy. It is wonderful that the deceased Bonsai people are remembered with a memorial table. I wish you would make a talk about how Bonsai trees are treated after their owner, not just in case of death, but if the owner just can't keep them any more, because of moving house or health reasons making their care impossible. If an old tree is passed to a new owner, how long does it keep "the name" of its grower? And what are all the ways that trees find new homes? Thanks for the video, once again. Your work bench collection was really different than anything else. Landscaping is clearly your specialty. And the bear got to the show too, ha ha! A little bit of humor is needed in Bonsai, I think. Did the bear really sit in the show or just in the video? I'm guessing it was just in the video, but I hope I'm wrong.

[@t3dwards13]

That's an interesting idea!!! It's like you'd have to be a part of a club, if you don't have someone in your life that can take over. I mean they could be sold, but who really wants to sell their collection. I've never thought of adding plant instructions to my will, but I "will" now.

[@AndrewFullerton]

Hi, Ross' son here. This is a bit late to reply, but thank you for your kind words. Hopefully I can give a bit of insight on the process! I can't speak for every bonsai owner, but in my Dad's case we held a silent auction that all TBS and KW members were invited to, with all the proceeds going to charity. We wanted to prioritize the trees all getting good homes with passionate people, the silent auction aspect was mostly to keep things from getting chaotic. A few of the easier to maintain trees went to family members who were inspired to pick up the hobby themselves, myself included (a lovely gollum jade in my case). I like to think of "legacy trees" as each having a story of their own, with each caretaker leaving their own unique mark on it.

[@Liisa3139]

@@AndrewFullerton My condolences once again and thank you for your reply. This KZbin thing is funny - with its communities (or "communities"?). I follow mostly common people, far less celebrities, and Nigel I consider my Canadian neighbor (all the way from Finland), whose doings I check out almost every day as if I was peeping out from between my curtains. I'm not even a bonsai person, just a hobby gardener with some indoor plants too, but I have learned so much about plant care and about Canadian (and world) flora and fauna over here. Truly amazing! As is also to get to know a bunch of potters and Nigel's fellow bonsai growers. So, when somebody is gone it is a little bit like a loss of a friend. Here we really get to see the development of individual plants and as their growers reappear we learn something about their style too. So, it is good to know that their plants find new caring homes and maybe we will see some of them in KW or Toronto shows in the future as well. Every time I plant a new tree or shrub in my garden I wish it will live long after me and be appreciated by people I knew and also by some that I never met. I just got a Magnolia to plant next to the stub of a very old Birch that we had to cut down, because it was becoming a danger to anyone getting close. Difficult decision and a really big cut, but there will be new life beside the old. I wish you all the best.

[@t3dwards13]

"Cocaine bear" Lmao That was unexpected!

[@mehranashkanian2747]

They should mostly be used for roots over rock Bonsais. Am I right and aesthetic purposes

[@BeardedWorm]

What did the Pakistan bonsai president say at 2:10?

[@TheBonsaiZone]

I'm not sure, he may be coming to visit me, so hopefully we will see more of him!

[@dubsydabster]

Foist

[@Stettafire]

🍪🎉

[@WhitesellMcewen]

😂😂😂

[@andyt3233]

Does bonsai help with anyone anger like it does mine lol

[@Stettafire]

I think any creative hobby that allows you self expression can help with emotional stability

[@TJ-kc8vr]

Thank you.

[@pennyduncan5980]

Thank you