Vitex Bonsai Makeover - Windswept Styling at The Bonsai Supply

[@philiptavella1856]

Great job. Tree looks beautiful and graceful. I hope you will show it when the foliage is back. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and knowledge.

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

Hey Phillip! Thank you for your kind words. I will definitely make a follow up video

[@philiptavella1856]

Great, can't wait.

[@soonzach4017]

Love it love it, very beautiful.

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

soon zach thank you so much Zack 🙂

[@claytonjones6208]

wow looks awesome well done ,

[@Andi_M.]

You did it as a suggested Bonsai video for me in Germany!!!

[@thebonsaisupply782]

Hey Andi! Wow that is really cool. Thank you for letting us know

[@terryklemesrud758]

I can hardly wait to see it with foliage again before you defoliate it again...please. Thanks for sharing your ideas!!

[@hoikychientranh2118]

Wow! Very beautiful bonsai tree. Have a nice day My friend!

[@robertfowlkes1166]

Like whatcha done, man. Awesome lookin tree.

[@lyndaburrows1548]

Your videos are so informative. I live in the Bahamas and there are no bonsai schools are nurseries here. It’s videos like yours that I learn a lot from. Have a request. Do you mind doing a video on apex? Why have one, how to make etc? Hope you can. Thank you

[@CConn-df7hy]

Videos are very slick. Keep up the good work

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

Thank you Chris, I am glad you enjoy my videos.

[@stephenimpossible9470]

Very cool windswept. I would like to achieve a similar look with my juniper

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

Go for it, you can do it!

[@licongmichael5985]

Nice man.

[@caliazulplata120]

Q lindo trabajo te felicito

[@doubled9789]

Nice tree sir... *subscribed* ..... Regard from Malaysia bonsai beginner...

[@joseronipen]

very dramatic indeed. would appreciate an extended explanation about the sacrificial branch though. Thanks Jerome.

[@Oxyacantha]

Thank you, I finally figured out today why I find so many 'windswept' bonsai utterly illogical and absurd. Growing up on the northwest coast of the US, I've seen many, many trees that I would call 'windswept' along the coast. I now understand that the 'windswept' style I've been seeing in bonsai is not a depiction of a tree in its natural state, but of a frozen moment when branches are being blown by the wind. I was interpreting it as a tree like the natural specimens I've seen, one that has been swept and shaped by the wind from one direction its entire life, so the 'windswept' shape is permanent. The result is a trunk that may grow upward for a short distance, but only straight up, and only if there's shelter on the windward side. Never TOWARD the wind. Usually the trunk grows at a slant away from the wind, frequently almost parallel to the ground. The branches stay low and hug the ground, since that's where they can find shelter and not have the leaves torn off. They grow bushier wherever they are sheltered, either by the trunk or geographical features such as rocky outcroppings. These trees frequently have thick, gnarled and twisting trunks, since they've grown slowly over a very long time, and are usually species that try to follow the sun - twisting the tips of the branches gradually every year, which in their old age, shows more exaggeratedly as the branches and trunk thicken. It's not that the windswept style I saw people creating is wrong, but that my interpretation of what 'windswept' is supposed to mean was wrong. The windswept style you created here is more like what I would expect to see at the forest's edge - growing low and outward normally, to escape the shade of larger trees in search of sunlight, then upward once it gets enough light, and currently being blown back toward the forest by a heavy gale.

[@russsherwood5978]

do you sell them deep bonsai pots?nice tree,, thank you for the video

[@alinatiwa]

Mine is around 15 years old since I bought it in very small tiny size and it is growing up in one line around half meter tall now and it looks like long few lianes together, I’ m surprise how this small tree can be widely

[@robertfowlkes1166]

Hey Jerome, watching this video for the second time here. Lemme ask you this, how would the tree look in a container that gave the appearance of it kinda hanging off an edge? And please understand, I'm not making a suggestion, but, asking for my own education. Would that tree look good in a position such as that, or, would that make it look sorta unbalanced?

[@WeareTheBonsaiSupply]

Hey Robert! Can you send me a picture of what kind of pot you are thinking?

[@robertfowlkes1166]

I don't think I can send a picture, but, I was thinking something taller with the tree leaning a little more to the left, or, maybe, even having it spilling out of a crescent container. Jerome, you know a lot more about bonsai than I do, man. I'm just kinda lettin my imagination run a little. Do let me know what you think of my crazy idea, though.@@WeareTheBonsaiSupply

[@nancyfahey7518]

What kind of Vitex Tree is that? I can't find it on google. Mine has pot leaves, chaste tree.

[@donfenton7473]

I like the windswept design but don’t understand the clip and grow.

[@deploribusunum3894]

This tree looks like a profile of a horses head with the limbs as the mane.

[@joaovitorcardosodourado5413]

Primeiro

[@diepnguyen6074]

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