I once had a wisteria growing at my old house that was approx 150 yo and was able to keep it flowering for 9 months of the year with constant pruning and slow leak from tap where it grew. Unfortunately new owners cut it down, I was devastated. Love your work though, inspires me to bonsai everything native to Australia. Cheers J
I currently live in Japan and the Wisteria blooms were beautiful this season. Cherry blossoms are always incredible and right now we’re enjoying hydrangeas and iris flowers.
I love watching your Bonsai videos. Your wisteria video is especially nice. I am A landscape Architect living in the Bay Area, California USA, I have specified white wisteria for numerous large park trellis /overheads, pedestals, etc. Unfortunately, it requires routine seasonal maintenance to keep it within the overhead structure. One of The largest wisterias in the world ( as you know) is grown in Japan with tendrils attached to a large horizontal overhead structure. This is an emphatic way to display the sea of cascading blooms.and would also save the lovely large cherry tree from being starangled. Thanksnagain for your enjoyable bonsai and nursery walk videos.
Dear Mr. Chan, how pertinent that as you talked about ..."capturing the moment..." in this transient life, you took the most wonderful shot of life at your nursery ( at about 2:20) as your plants looked so very beautiful and in their element. Please do keep uploading videos of your tremendous gardens, grounds and nursery, it brings me such joy that is not so easily expressed in words. I look forward to every video. Thank you and Kindest regards.
this is the video that I found your channel so many months back. Wisteria are my favorite plants and this was such a lovely video that I had to binge watch everything you do on this channel. Thank you for fostering love of plants and gardening for me and everyone else too.
Peter, you're a very kind and generous person; sharing your secrets, your garden and detail guidance, with everyone. I've come to grow a respect and admiration for bonsais because of you. Thank you.
Wow, you have a lots of collection, Whisteria is one of my favorite trees, this video reminded me tonight where beautiful Fuji Whisteria in Sera in Hiroshima, have you been there ? 世羅の藤 is famous in west Japan. I live in York but never seen nursery like yours. I want to go home next year when covic19 get better, I couldn’t go home this year, I wish I could walk your beautiful garden in my Kimono under the Whisteria flowers or cherry blossom. You made me smile Japanese Whisteria go clockwise, cause organized people you said, funny. I love that. Thank you very much for this video. We grow sweet satsuma oranges, lemon, many kinds of citrus where I come from. Grow water melon, figs, persimon, grapes, peach, plum, Ume, cherry, kiwi fruit, all sort can grow in Inland Seto area, 瀬戸内海。 I love old English old roses, Fox gloves, etc, love cottage garden too though. English garden is beautiful, too. Please take care of yourself and stay safe from virus. Xxx
Nature gives us Happiness and joy through these beautiful flowers and many other natural things, thankyou for sharing, I've enjoyed watching your video's.
Thank you Peter every video is unique informative and concise. I have been a religious fan of yours for a few months and have learned a great deal and have come a long way in my own bonsai obsession and general love and appreciation for mother nature with much thanks to you.(28yr old) I wish you many more years of growth and happiness peace, sincerely joe roberts.
a Wisteria in full bloom is truly a sight to behold; to pause and admire. thanks for this video Peter. being in Melbourne, I've not seen a flowering Wisteria for more than six months! aside from that, i for one would love to see your Japanese garden work- they hold endless fascination for me.
I always look forward to your videos. I have started applying some of your methods to bringing out even more beauty in the shrubs trees and plants we have in our back garden. I've a long way to go but creating lovely detail in every part of the garden, I had no idea it was so therapeutic. I really do give you top ratings as for a number of years my wife was a keen gardener and I had no interest in gardening, just appreciating what she did. Now she is disabled at an early age and can't do the very thing she loves so I've learned to value doing the garden for her and the care that goes in to creating something beautiful. Between my carpentry skills and your excellent videos to help my gardening I hope to build a paradise we call home. Many many thanks for your generosity in kindly sharing your wisdom 😁😁😁🌱🥀🌺🌼🌴🍁☺️☺️☺️
Hi John, I can appreciate where you are coming from because my dear wife who passed away two years ago, was very fond of growing flowering plants, She used to work late into the summer evenings weeding and planting till it got dark. Gardening is very therapeutic , so keep at it and enjoy. It is like meditation
Hi Peter, thank you for sharing your personal experience with me I am sad to hear about your wife. On reflection I have taken a leaf out of your wife's book of life and I am beginning to learn and understand that by the taking the time and effort really is a form of physical, emotional and mental meditation that in no way feels like work but rather a wonderful way to create beauty in the part of the world in which we live. I am learning to see in my minds eye the images and influences that I wish to build into our garden. I find the Google images of Japanese gardens are so beautiful and inspiring where everything is in complete harmony. This is the longterm goal I now have to follow paying attention to detail throughout all our of our garden. I am looking to include a pebble stream and bridge to add some Japanese styling amongst other ideas with a hope that I will one day have created a full harmonious garden for my wife, myself and family and friends to enjoy. Thank you again for your kind and generous work which you share on your RUclips channel, all blessings to you, John Cohen. 😊😊😊
I have said this before but a visit to Herons nursery is a bucket list, just sitting on the bench overlooking his pond is so peaceful and then there is the Bonsai which one to choose? Just wish Peter had a small cafe to enjoy the visit even more. Peter I am really enjoying a short look at the different plant varieties at your nursery.
I like your deep thoughts and poetry of life very wise of you to suggest that I was actually hoping my wisteria was going to flower in bloom a lot longer though
Stunning, Beautiful ‘full size’ garden too! Have you ever seen Sambucus Nigra ‘black lace elder’ as a Bonsai? The deep purple leaves and white flowers would look amazing I think.
Do not grow from seed, it'll take 10 years to flower. Your best bet is to take cuttings, or my favourite way is to air layer. This is the best "how to" by far. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p058gyb2
I collect different varieties wisterias and keep them in pots, but they all gotten so big. I'd really like to get a few in the ground, but don't know what to use for them to climb on. Oh...and if I was anywhere near your nursery, I would be there there weekly buying those beautiful trees!
Hello Peter You have a very beautiful Nursery hope some day you could do a Video of the whole nursery.( but it would be a long video but it would be like a PISSCO painting) Take Care
I bought a home 8 years ago with a beautiful wisteria tree in the front yard that had been very carefully managed for 50+ years by the previous owners. It’s about 8 feet tall with a trunk about 7 inches in diameter and strong branches that terminate into lovely pom-poms. My wife and I have not been able to maintain it to the same beauty we inherited and I’d love to learn more about the best practices for a wisteria like ours. Any tips appreciated.
If i plant a wisteria near my house (3 feet away from the fence, and 3 feet away from the cement walkway, and my house is after that) should I worry about wisteria damaging anything? Not worried about the fence because it's metal
as far as I know, it will strangle any tree that is about it's size. I have lost parts of my canopy & much of my Wisteria trying to get it under control. I have not lived here long & it is sad to deal with on both points. If you are gonna grow this, have it near nothing else.
I have a small one that just barely survived the winter. I hope I can keep it alive this year. I understand they are poisonous and to be careful where you plant them. I am keeping it in a pot this year and maybe next.
I have a pink wisteria. I think it is sinensis. I know it is pink because in the 40 years I have had it planted I have only seen two flowers one year and one some other time. I have cut it back July and January times. Just cut back the wispy growth this July. The only other thing I have heard that I can do in my desperation to see flowers before I die is to give it shock treatment by cutting into the roots chop chop. The strange thing that happened when flowers appeared was to see them come at the same time as leaves. Not before the leaves. What do you think, I do have an exuberance of beautiful green leaves every year.,
I have a large wisteria that I dug this spring and it is growing vigorously. The leaves have 5-11 leaflets but the runners are not spiraling at all, they just keep growing straight up and flopping over. With that few leaflets I suspect W. sinensis but with no spiraling I am wondering?
7:24 tomorrow im gonna check what wisteria i have. if my memmory serves me right i also have a white flowering one. tho mine is now about 2 meters tall with a trunk of about 7-8cm being grown in full soil. its been cut into a big bonsai over the years and ( its has only been mine for a year now new house ). but as the one you show now mine does this crazy jungle-vine thing, can just keep cutting those down and still expect flowers? little more info. last fall i trimmed it back untill its 'old wood' about 2-3 weeks ago he finally started sprouting (i was waiting terrified) she has plenty leaves but i see no flowers, just lots of vines going everywhere. is that normal after a big trim?
I have several floribunda longissima...super long blossoms...new record this year 44.5" long! The alba floribunda longissima...is as Mr Chan says about 2 feet...I think it was mislabeled though as I have seen the over three feet in Japan. Spectacular plants! Now I want to try my hand at air layering them to make some bonsai as seed grown plants take forever to bloom in my experience. Anyone air layered them before?
Thank you for the information about Wisteria and it's growth behaviors. It is a plant I have seen often over the years with beautiful drapes of the flowers. I recently read on another Wisteria informational site that Wisteria is toxic and because the smell is so wonderful people will occasionally eat the blossoms. Apparently children are most likely to do this. It doesn't kill but it can make some people quite ill. Is this information correct? I myself have only been inclined to enjoy its beauty and scent but never had the impulse to eat a blossom. Thank you for your response.
Hi, Peter. Thank you for the tour. When training field grown material for bonsai, what mix of soil should be used? I live in Norway and it is very difficult and expensive to buy a lot of akadama and pumice. Is it acceptable to use a blend of peat soil and expanded clay aggregate? What alternatives can be used?
Just use your local soil for field growing. When you grow bonsai in pots experiment with different mixes. Can you get pumice in Norway? If so then that is good to mix in leafmold and bark - a third of each would be OK. I use to go to Norway between 1974 -1976 when I did work on North Sea Oil and gas. Still have happy memories of those days
@@peterchan3100 Thank you! Yes, I might be able to buy some pumice, if not I will buy from neighbouring countries. Very interesting to hear about your stay in Norway!
I once had a wisteria growing at my old house that was approx 150 yo and was able to keep it flowering for 9 months of the year with constant pruning and slow leak from tap where it grew. Unfortunately new owners cut it down, I was devastated. Love your work though, inspires me to bonsai everything native to Australia. Cheers J
No accounting for people that would not like a wisteria blooming for 9 months.
The disrespect, my goodness
Who tf cuts a 150 year old wisteria?????????????????????????????????? WTF
@@blueskies773 you would be surprised...
That's the most bitter sweet comment that I'm glad I read and wish didn't exist.
I currently live in Japan and the Wisteria blooms were beautiful this season. Cherry blossoms are always incredible and right now we’re enjoying hydrangeas and iris flowers.
So inspiring thank you 😀
in the us dont plant them. they are so invasive and they cant bring be happiness. along with kudzu
I love watching your Bonsai videos. Your wisteria video is especially nice. I am A landscape Architect living in the Bay Area, California USA, I have specified white wisteria for numerous large park trellis /overheads, pedestals, etc. Unfortunately, it requires routine seasonal maintenance to keep it within the overhead structure. One of The largest wisterias in the world ( as you know) is grown in Japan with tendrils attached to a large horizontal overhead structure. This is an emphatic way to display the sea of cascading blooms.and would also save the lovely large cherry tree from being starangled.
Thanksnagain for your enjoyable bonsai and nursery walk videos.
Dear Mr. Chan, how pertinent that as you talked about ..."capturing the moment..." in this transient life, you took the most wonderful shot of life at your nursery ( at about 2:20) as your plants looked so very beautiful and in their element.
Please do keep uploading videos of your tremendous gardens, grounds and nursery, it brings me such joy that is not so easily expressed in words. I look forward to every video.
Thank you and Kindest regards.
Thank you for your kind feed back
Paradise on earth. Just beautiful. Thanks
this is the video that I found your channel so many months back. Wisteria are my favorite plants and this was such a lovely video that I had to binge watch everything you do on this channel. Thank you for fostering love of plants and gardening for me and everyone else too.
Peter, you're a very kind and generous person; sharing your secrets, your garden and detail guidance, with everyone. I've come to grow a respect and admiration for bonsais because of you. Thank you.
Wow, you have a lots of collection, Whisteria is one of my favorite trees, this video reminded me tonight where beautiful Fuji Whisteria in Sera in Hiroshima, have you been there ? 世羅の藤 is famous in west Japan.
I live in York but never seen nursery like yours. I want to go home next year when covic19 get better, I couldn’t go home this year,
I wish I could walk your beautiful garden in my Kimono under the Whisteria flowers or cherry blossom.
You made me smile Japanese Whisteria go clockwise, cause organized people you said, funny. I love that.
Thank you very much for this video. We grow sweet satsuma oranges, lemon, many kinds of citrus where I come from.
Grow water melon, figs, persimon, grapes, peach, plum, Ume, cherry, kiwi fruit, all sort can grow in Inland Seto area, 瀬戸内海。
I love old English old roses, Fox gloves, etc, love cottage garden too though. English garden is beautiful, too.
Please take care of yourself and stay safe from virus. Xxx
Nature gives us Happiness and joy through these beautiful flowers and many other natural things, thankyou for sharing, I've enjoyed watching your video's.
Beautiful garden! What a dream! Greetings! 🇲🇽
Your such an amazing, teacher. I love everything you have done. You are an inspiration. God Bless you
You have a great voice for narrating! Just as pleasant as these beautiful wisteria
Thank you Peter every video is unique informative and concise. I have been a religious fan of yours for a few months and have learned a great deal and have come a long way in my own bonsai obsession and general love and appreciation for mother nature with much thanks to you.(28yr old) I wish you many more years of growth and happiness peace, sincerely joe roberts.
Thank you Joe - don't ever lose the passion for plants
Very pretty and very well maintained nursery !! Excellent job!
the fleeting lives of the flowers just makes them all the more beautiful and profound to experience
What a beautiful, peaceful place!
Not to mention, I think I can actually smell the wisteria from my home here in the United States!
Wonderfully informative and I always love to see views of your stunning nursery. Thank you as always.
a Wisteria in full bloom is truly a sight to behold; to pause and admire. thanks for this video Peter. being in Melbourne, I've not seen a flowering Wisteria for more than six months!
aside from that, i for one would love to see your Japanese garden work- they hold endless fascination for me.
The Wisteria are stunning. I have only just watched this video today. I’ve never considered growing a wisteria until now!
You have a beautiful nursery. Appreciate your showing us and narrating.
im sorry I can't help but envy on your vast collection of bonsai. most of those plants dont thrive here in our tropical country. great job sir peter!
I always look forward to your videos. I have started applying some of your methods to bringing out even more beauty in the shrubs trees and plants we have in our back garden. I've a long way to go but creating lovely detail in every part of the garden, I had no idea it was so therapeutic. I really do give you top ratings as for a number of years my wife was a keen gardener and I had no interest in gardening, just appreciating what she did. Now she is disabled at an early age and can't do the very thing she loves so I've learned to value doing the garden for her and the care that goes in to creating something beautiful. Between my carpentry skills and your excellent videos to help my gardening I hope to build a paradise we call home. Many many thanks for your generosity in kindly sharing your wisdom 😁😁😁🌱🥀🌺🌼🌴🍁☺️☺️☺️
Hi John,
I can appreciate where you are coming from because my dear wife who passed away two years ago, was very fond of growing flowering plants, She used to work late into the summer evenings weeding and planting till it got dark. Gardening is very therapeutic , so keep at it and enjoy. It is like meditation
Hi Peter, thank you for sharing your personal experience with me I am sad to hear about your wife. On reflection I have taken a leaf out of your wife's book of life and I am beginning to learn and understand that by the taking the time and effort really is a form of physical, emotional and mental meditation that in no way feels like work but rather a wonderful way to create beauty in the part of the world in which we live. I am learning to see in my minds eye the images and influences that I wish to build into our garden. I find the Google images of Japanese gardens are so beautiful and inspiring where everything is in complete harmony. This is the longterm goal I now have to follow paying attention to detail throughout all our of our garden. I am looking to include a pebble stream and bridge to add some Japanese styling amongst other ideas with a hope that I will one day have created a full harmonious garden for my wife, myself and family and friends to enjoy. Thank you again for your kind and generous work which you share on your RUclips channel, all blessings to you, John Cohen. 😊😊😊
I joined your channel when I saw you showing the massive Wisteria ~ looks like the beginning of time!!
Your nursery and specimens are amazing..... the tree in the background in the beginning of the video is beautiful
Peter tour nursery and gardens are amazing. Someday I hope to visit.
Beautiful nursery, great bonsai plants
So, Herons Bonsai is obviously on my bucket list to visit.... I never knew I needed to go there.
Do let me know before you visit so that I will be there to welcome you
Thank you Peter, I must pay a visit to this amazing place.
Peter, please show us how to turn nursery wisteria into bonsai and how to maintain it. My dream is to visit your nursery someday. Thanks
You will be most welcome
6:30 am Sunday morning in Tijuana. My wife's favorite tree. I'm about to wake her up. Thanks Peter.
Wow that's a truly. Beautiful nursery love it 🥰🥰
How beautiful your garden nursery 😍🤩!
I have said this before but a visit to Herons nursery is a bucket list, just sitting on the bench overlooking his pond is so peaceful and then there is the Bonsai which one to choose? Just wish Peter had a small cafe to enjoy the visit even more. Peter I am really enjoying a short look at the different plant varieties at your nursery.
Hope to see you again Brian.
Wisteria is indeed beautiful,.can't wait for your next vid..
Some lovely Wisteria trees there, but at 1.22 you pan across a beast of a Bonsai, wouldn't mind knowing a little more about that one. What a tree!
So calming I love your videos. Just found your channel tonight and I am thriving 🌿
Wow absolutely beautiful! Everything looks so great! 🤗🌱💚
A treasure. Many thanks for the pleasure.
I enjoy all the videos you produce.
Sometimes I watch your videos and start making a huge list of trees I want to buy.
So beautiful, very therapeutic.
Thank you for all your wonderful videos!
Any chance to take a peak at the nursery is a bless, thank you
Absolutely beautiful Peter thank you ..
Oh man thems some niiiice trees! Beautiful.
Hi Peter thanks for the video can you make a video on pruning the wisteria after flowering. Have a great day
Cut back to 2 buds in mid to late winter and cut back to 5-6 buds in mid to late summer.
I love these plants. I have a bigger tree and a smaller bonsai. Thank you for doing a video on them.
Going to come visit your shop hopefully in the next couple of weeks!
The ones we have wild here are pink/purple and do not last long at all. I have one I am working on now. Mine winds clock wise. Beautiful nursery.
Bless your heart extremely beautiful flower!! Thank you so very much!!
💐👍🙂💙🙏🏼💐
Absolutely beautiful video. Thank you for sharing.
Красота. Я недавно купила семена глицинии.
I like your deep thoughts and poetry of life very wise of you to suggest that I was actually hoping my wisteria was going to flower in bloom a lot longer though
Absolutely beautiful, thank you.
Stunning, Beautiful ‘full size’ garden too! Have you ever seen Sambucus Nigra ‘black lace elder’ as a Bonsai?
The deep purple leaves and white flowers would look amazing I think.
your bonsais are absolutely beautiful
Thank you so much for sharing. GORGEOUS color.
Would you do a more detailed video on growing wisteria from seed & developing in wisteria bonsai?
Do not grow from seed, it'll take 10 years to flower. Your best bet is to take cuttings, or my favourite way is to air layer. This is the best "how to" by far. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p058gyb2
Weebs: This flower keeps demons away
Demon slayer :")
I’ve never heard that!👍I have a LARGE tree I planted 20 yrs ago.
No wonder I stay away from them everytime I see them in a garden.
I got the reffrance 😂
And can be brewd as poison to kill them
Wow beautiful wisteria
Absolutely marvellous 😍😍😍
I collect different varieties wisterias and keep them in pots, but they all gotten so big. I'd really like to get a few in the ground, but don't know what to use for them to climb on. Oh...and if I was anywhere near your nursery, I would be there there weekly buying those beautiful trees!
I envy your wisteria collection. I wish to have some someday.
Definitely on my list to obtain, one day.
Hello Peter You have a very beautiful Nursery hope some day you could do a Video of the whole nursery.( but it would be a long video but it would be like a PISSCO painting) Take Care
I bought a home 8 years ago with a beautiful wisteria tree in the front yard that had been very carefully managed for 50+ years by the previous owners. It’s about 8 feet tall with a trunk about 7 inches in diameter and strong branches that terminate into lovely pom-poms. My wife and I have not been able to maintain it to the same beauty we inherited and I’d love to learn more about the best practices for a wisteria like ours. Any tips appreciated.
Buy his book (the bonsai beginners bible Peter chan) and go to page 237 where you can find all the information on wisterias
If i plant a wisteria near my house (3 feet away from the fence, and 3 feet away from the cement walkway, and my house is after that) should I worry about wisteria damaging anything? Not worried about the fence because it's metal
as far as I know, it will strangle any tree that is about it's size. I have lost parts of my canopy & much of my Wisteria trying to get it under control. I have not lived here long & it is sad to deal with on both points. If you are gonna grow this, have it near nothing else.
I’ve heard that with wisteria, this you need to prune them back fairly hard in the beginning part of the year to have them bloom.
So beautiful!
they are just beautiful
I have a small one that just barely survived the winter. I hope I can keep it alive this year. I understand they are poisonous and to be careful where you plant them. I am keeping it in a pot this year and maybe next.
Semoga sehat dan sukses selalu , hadir mengikuti 🙏🙏
Beautiful nursery and wisteria s💐🌸🏵🌺🌻🌴
You have a beautiful nursery. I want to visit & attend your classes if close by from Los Angeles, CA.
Garden of Eden. Beautiful
beautiful collection
Hello Mr. Chan, It'd be amazing if you could make a video on how to turn a nursery wisteria floribunda into bonsai. Thanks for the informational video
Yes, please do. By the way do you pull off the leaves to make them bloom?
@@bonniewilliams9171 I've been leaving my leaves on, are you supposed to pull them off at some point?
@@McR3VOLUTI0N
I don't know, but i noticed some his bonsai wisteria that were covered with blooms had no leaves.
Mine grows as vines, and no flower for 16 years!
I have a pink wisteria. I think it is sinensis. I know it is pink because in the 40 years I have had it planted I have only seen two flowers one year
and one some other time. I have cut it back July and January times. Just cut back the wispy growth this July. The only other
thing I have heard that I can do in my desperation to see flowers before I die is to give it shock treatment by cutting into the roots chop chop.
The strange thing that happened when flowers appeared was to see them come at the same time as leaves. Not before the leaves.
What do you think, I do have an exuberance of beautiful green leaves every year.,
Omg just amazing osm 👏👏👏👌👌👌👌
Beautiful! ! !
Beautiful peter❤️
beautiful garthen
Spectacular
my neighbor has a wisteria plant along his fence. Where May I take a cutting from this plant? thank you for your videos
Thanks it's my favorites.
I have a large wisteria that I dug this spring and it is growing vigorously. The leaves have 5-11 leaflets but the runners are not spiraling at all, they just keep growing straight up and flopping over. With that few leaflets I suspect W. sinensis but with no spiraling I am wondering?
Send me a picture - I am curious.
peter chan- I can’t see any way to attach a photo to a post so I have sent it as an email attachment to sale@herons.co.uk . Thanks
7:24 tomorrow im gonna check what wisteria i have. if my memmory serves me right i also have a white flowering one. tho mine is now about 2 meters tall with a trunk of about 7-8cm being grown in full soil. its been cut into a big bonsai over the years and ( its has only been mine for a year now new house ). but as the one you show now mine does this crazy jungle-vine thing, can just keep cutting those down and still expect flowers? little more info. last fall i trimmed it back untill its 'old wood' about 2-3 weeks ago he finally started sprouting (i was waiting terrified) she has plenty leaves but i see no flowers, just lots of vines going everywhere. is that normal after a big trim?
I'm working on this species too sir wonderful plant specially when it is on full bloom I have golden shower
It's called "Golden Shower"?!?
I had wisteria everywhere on the house!
My all time favorite!!!
I have several floribunda longissima...super long blossoms...new record this year 44.5" long! The alba floribunda longissima...is as Mr Chan says about 2 feet...I think it was mislabeled though as I have seen the over three feet in Japan. Spectacular plants! Now I want to try my hand at air layering them to make some bonsai as seed grown plants take forever to bloom in my experience. Anyone air layered them before?
You my good sir is TALENTED
Peter can you air layer wisteria? and how many weeks do they need to grow roots?
Very easy to do
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p058gyb2
Thank you for the information about Wisteria and it's growth behaviors. It is a plant I have seen often over the years with beautiful drapes of the flowers. I recently read on another Wisteria informational site that Wisteria is toxic and because the smell is so wonderful people will occasionally eat the blossoms. Apparently children are most likely to do this. It doesn't kill but it can make some people quite ill. Is this information correct? I myself have only been inclined to enjoy its beauty and scent but never had the impulse to eat a blossom. Thank you for your response.
We should definitely call it "pink-pink."
Thank you very much.
Beautiful
Hi, Peter. Thank you for the tour. When training field grown material for bonsai, what mix of soil should be used? I live in Norway and it is very difficult and expensive to buy a lot of akadama and pumice. Is it acceptable to use a blend of peat soil and expanded clay aggregate? What alternatives can be used?
Just use your local soil for field growing. When you grow bonsai in pots experiment with different mixes. Can you get pumice in Norway? If so then that is good to mix in leafmold and bark - a third of each would be OK. I use to go to Norway between 1974 -1976 when I did work on North Sea Oil and gas. Still have happy memories of those days
@@peterchan3100 Thank you! Yes, I might be able to buy some pumice, if not I will buy from neighbouring countries.
Very interesting to hear about your stay in Norway!
Very beautiful beautiful