Desert Bonsai, Part 1, My Yucca and Aloe Bonsai, Nov. 2018
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- I work on my Yucca forest and my Aloe bonsai, today in The Bonsai Zone!
Click the playlist tab on the channel home page to see previous videos of these trees.
Music by Jo San
/ @josanproductions8322
Hi from the Philippines.
I am a big fan of your amazing works sir. You inspire me to create bonsai of my own.
Have a nice day.
Thank you, very nice to hear, happy growing!
I like the trunks on your yucca. Mine is just straight up.
Yucka!!😜
You have gotten a very nice taper on these. I would have never thought that was possible. Great job!
I was inspired by some of the Yucca trees that I saw at Disney World in Florida!
Great video ur channel got me into bonsai
same here!~
Same!
Nice to hear, thanks!
Love how you got the yuccas to trunk flare and naturally stager the scene into the distance... I'm really surprised how great they all look together! I can't wait to see how these desert plants progress!
Thank you Anna, I'm looking forward to working on them over the upcoming years!
Looking good, looking good! As I walk through and looking way up and around the trees, these would be huge. I look at the large tree and imagine putting in a door and a couple windows and living in it !
Me too.
Thanks J and SK!
Before I ever got into bonsai I ALWAYS had Aloe plants. Never knew they could be bonsaied (is that a word? lol). They were handy plants to have around since I was a welder and often used the leaves to soothe and help heal any burns.
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bonsaied as a matter of fact it is a word.
I have aloes growing outside and they are fantastic for burns. One of the few plants that truly deserves a 'super' plant label instead of super food.
@@alextate418 I used to buy aloe vera gel for burns
I am really enjoying growing the Aloe bonsai, I can't wait to see it in the far future!
Nice job with this yucca forest. A good depiction of an unusual bonsai. The aloe looks good. Good video - enjoyed watching.
I can't wait to see you work on "whatever this is" plant 😂👍😜
Always good to start another interesting species!
That's how I got into orchids. By watching your videos and falling in love with your bonsai forests, I just bought my first dawn redwood forest. However, I wasn't sure if the trees are going into dormancy or half dead as they arrived a few days ago. They do have buds on them. If you kindly give me some tips how to care for them, I would be grateful.
I love the moss.
I learnt a lot from your videos.
Thank you, nice to hear!
Great video, as usual. Thanks for sharing
Thanks Never Win!
Hi nigel, looking forward for part 2 and also the new green house building up..
Love the bark and the trunks on the tree
They just looked like poles in the ground when I first got them over fifteen years ago. They have come a long way, and I hope to get them looking even better as time goes by.
Everyone lookin good!🍁🍂🍁🍁
Thank you Jeannie!
So beautiful!!!!
Thank you, it's not everyone's kind of bonsai, but it is one of my favorites!
I have two Aloes that I have kept for more than 10 yrs and I have been considering top chopping one to see what happens as they are upright and have some really strong trunks, but my wife wont let me. This gives me some ideas lol. Great video love the Yuccas!
Nice trees, love the yucca's. Great use of the table.
Thank you, I never liked them much at first, they just looked like poles stuck in the ground! After a few years, the trunks started to get some character and taper, now I just love them!
@@TheBonsaiZone great trunks indeed. Im also starting an aloë, it grows vertellen slow. I have it for a month or two it hasnt grown yet or at least for my eyes to see..
Yup! The "whatever this is" Got me too... Still laughing! Guess you can just call it George.... :P
George is a good name, it is a "Mother of thousands", maybe Georgia would be better?
@@TheBonsaiZone Yes, agreed! haha! Here... ruclips.net/video/ArNz8U7tgU4/видео.html Just don't squeeze her that hard ok! :)
Always enjoy your work
Thanks 1G!
Thank you for sharing! Wonderful video and nice work
Thank you, part 2 coming soon!
Thanks , I enjoy your videos.
""What ever this is"" lol 😂great video Nigel thanks for sharing ....
I guess it is a Mother of Thousands plant, it should make it's own forest!
The Bob Ross of Bonsai
Your ‘Spanish Daggers ‘, aka Yuccas are looking great.
I believe the last succulent is Kalanchoe daigremontiana.
Thanks, part 2 coming soon!
Keep on with that Great work. I Love your Videos.
Thank you, I always enjoy making the videos!
"and whatever this is" - Nigel Saunders lol!
"This is" a kalanchoe diagremontana or " Mother of thousands". They are very invasive in frost-free areas, and you will find babies coming up in every pot in sight. Might make a bonsai, since they tend to grow up as a single stem, and will throw aerial roots, but the base of the stem tends to be much thinner than the top. I cut off the top where it is thick and root it as a cutting. if you don't throw out the base, it will sprout branches that can be rooted as small plants. The little plantlets along the edge of the leaves drop off at the slightest puff of wind, drop to the ground, and grow wherever they land on a piece of dirt or sand. Easy plant to grow and highly drought resistant. Red or pink flowers when mature.
Thanks Emmit, I was looking at pictures of the ones with red flowers, very nice! It will be another experimental bonsai!
@@TheBonsaiZone i have one of them myself. in the uk they are called mexican hat plant. their origin is from madagascar as far as i know and the little babies its producing at the end of the leaves are soon gonna be sprouting in every pot surrounding the mexican hat plant. very interesting to keep and to see it grow and develop these little baby plants
Hey Nigel,
I really enjoyed this video and can't wait for part two to be released.
I am exspecilly intrigued by that jade bonsai of yours.
By the way; the 'whatever this is' plant looks like Kalanchoe daigremontiana or a similar species.
Best wishes from Germany.^^
Thank you, yes I believe it is a Kalanchoe, a plant that will automatically create a forest!
The last one looked like a kalanchoe. Some of these plants will be very tricky to continue as bonsai. The aloe Vera leaves tend to get massive
There are more appropriate aloes to bonsai like the fan aloe or climbing aloe amongst a few others.
You may also want to look at something like tylecodons, and I personally would love to see you bonsai a crassula Hobbit/gollum plant :) maybe a red horn variety for some vivid colour or Hummel sunset jade or a variegated jade :)
If you take a look behind the portulacaria forest, you will find that he's actually already got a crassula ovata gollum bonsai. ;p
@@lordgrubbin9394 ah i thought I saw one! Ha. Perfect :)
I am going to order the Quiver tree seeds eventually, they will make a really good tree form Aloe!
@@TheBonsaiZone sounds perfect Nigel!
Would you consider doing a series on something like top 5 or top 10 most easily cared for bonsai? Trees or plants that needed little water or thrive in self watering pots. I love bonsai but things that need misting twice a day are out of the question for me at the moment since I'm not even at my house every day. But maybe that will change one day but I would like to get started with now with some so I can have some real nice ones in a decade or so.
Lovely video as always Nigel!
I'll be making a video on succulent bonsai soon, stay tuned!
Espectacular trabajo no se inglés pero una imagen vale más que mil palabras desde España muchas gracias
¡Gracias, me alegra que te haya gustado el bosque! Está creciendo bien y necesitará más poda este verano.
what a surreal landscape ^^
Not a typical forest! Almost an alien landscape.
Looking forward to the next video when you work on "whateverthisis". One of my favorites.
It is a "Mother of thousands", can it be made into an interesting bonsai? Time will tell!
Hi Nigel, that last plant looks like a type of Kalanchoe, it grows tiny plants on the edges of the leaves? (Kalanchoe Daigremontiana)
Yes, I'm not sure how they will grow as a bonsai, but they do grow to almost 2 meters tall, it will be interesting!
did not know you can bonsai a yucca plant. i have a yucca plant thats been growing for 2 years. i cant wait to get home from work and prune it. its so bushy lol
love your work
Thank you Salam!
I think it looks a bit like ginger root when close up. Lovely scaled taper to the trunk and flare on the first tree closest to the camera.
Thank you, it will be exciting to see how well these trees can be developed!
FIrst I would like to say that you are an inspiration in the world of bonsai!!
When you planted them did you use your standard bonsai soil, or did you make a different mixture? Do you water them less because they're a desert plant, or water them normally? I live in the high desert in southeastern Arizona, & have been eyeballing a few different desert plants for bonsai.
Thanks in advance!!
Frenchy
Hello there, I'm a bonsai enthusiast and a fan of your channel, I live in San Antonio TX and the weather here can be unpredictable specially in the winter time, with high winds, friezes, rain and everything in between. My question is, when is the best time to trim and re-pot threes, if the right time is now, i would hate to miss the season. Thank you.
I like to re pot them in the middle of summer here, I let them grow for the first half of summer to gain vigor, then I re pot and they trees have good weather for the second half of summer to recover. I really like this forest, it's so unusual!
Thank you for your reply, summers here in Texas are super hot, I think I'll re-pot them early in the spring so that they can get used to the hot summer weather. How about pruning them, is winter a good time, I saw you videos where you prune them in the winter, I just don't want to kill them. Thank you.
Hey Nigel , I think the last one you showed is a Kalanchoe daigremontiana, couldn't see it very well but I have a few myself a d it looks like one , waiting for part 2 keep up the good work
Thanks Dani, yes you are right, they are listed as growing almost two meters tall, hopefully it can be an interesting bonsai!
@@TheBonsaiZone interested to see what your gonna do with it to give me some ideas with mine.
The small seedlings on the edges are so easy to grow and even cuttings are just so easy to grow almost just drop it down on the ground and it will root ...
Great work, as always! :)
Please let us meet your cat one day, she/he obviously wishes to take part in the show!
They would be happy to be in a video! I'll try and feature them in part 2.
@@TheBonsaiZone Looking forward to it! 😺
Hi Nigel
How did you get the trunks to go thicker closer to the ground? My trunk is all even as a pole. Did yours look like mine at the beginning too?
Is that aloe an Aloe arborescens?
The yucca forest is awesome the front looks like a sentential from Easter Island. How did you get the base to grow so huge? did you give it a lot of fertilizer?
The trees are about 18 years old from when I found them thrown out on the curb one hot summer day. I took them home and have just slowly grown and pruned them since. They get the same amount of fertilizer as any of my trees, not too much and not too little.
thank you
Here is a link to watering and fertilizing....
ruclips.net/video/gXIIpxUqxdY/видео.html
Nigel, Wonderful list of Greenhouse/Bonsai Videos to catch up on over Hot Chocolate. I am still out Landscaping. The point you made about " where the eye flows" is vital in Bonsai and creating Home Sanctuary Gardens. Especially fall pruning. Sherrallea
Thank you, i hope you get some good rest over the off season! Landscape work is a real work out!
Hey Niguel Can you please make a video on how to grow cutting from bonsai plant... and How do you grow them? Thank you 😊
I will, thanks Meghal.
HOW DO THE TRUNKS OF YOUR TREES HAVE SHINE ON THEM ? DO YOU PAINT SOMETHING ON THEM OR WHAT ?
Ok i got it ........ can you make a video on moss please .....!
When is part 2? I need to trim my jade and was hoping to see yours.
I love how u tell LIKE THATttt😘😄
Thank you Ali, part 2 is coming soon!
Waiting for part 2 haha
Hi Nigel , I love your videos . Can you tell me if itsnormalfor a large ficus gensing to loose leaves in winter ? ( uk ) its in a well lit spot and i dont under / over water
Ficus can loose their leaves if they are brought from outdoor sunlight to the dimmer light indoors. Usually they don't loose all their leaves, just the older ones. If the growing tips look good, with healthy looking buds, the tree should recover as it adjusts to indoor life.
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone thank you for taking the time to reply . My wife bought me this tree and im determined to keep it alive . Ive added an LED grow light , hopefully that will helpwith the long cold UK winter ?
I have a very small yucca. And I am training it to be a bonsai like urs.😀
They are a little unpredictable, but they always seem to make good progress!
Nigel i am a big fan of your ....... i want to know how to take care of moss
The secret to growing moss indoors is the high humidity of my plant room. You need a warm bright room with lots of plants to generate the high humidity in the air. You can get some nice window greenhouses that would give the same results, but on a smaller scale. Regular house air is too dry to grow moss.
Hi Nigel, what conditions do your yucca trees live in? Is your room high in heat and humidity? The new leaves on mine aren't as sturdy like yours. Mine droop down now. Thanks!
My Yucca's are in a nice warm humid room for the winter, but go outside on the bench in the summer. It may be the type of Yucca possibly?
Here is a really good article on Yucca trees!
plantcaretoday.com/yucca-plant.html
@@TheBonsaiZone thank you very much Nigel!
Can I ask what kond of yucca you have? Thanks
I've been trying to learn how to turn my climbing aloe into a bonsai. Any suggestions?
Thank you for your helpful video!
Do you have any tips for moss growing? I live in athens, Greece and Its difficult to find moss, I was able to collect some moss but its few and not growing well. I water every day but the moss has the same size in 2 weeks what can I do? And one more question: I have 2 tiny apple seedlings outside in a plastic covered pot and the temperature is 15-10°C do I have to move them inside the house?
The Apple trees need a cool period in winter where they should loose their leaves. They can safely go down to -10 C.
Moss requires the right conditions to thrive. I think you would need greenhouse conditions to grow it well, good light and high humidity area must. It should be watered at least once a day and misted regularly 3 to 4 times per day. A small mini greenhouse would really help. It is difficult for me to keep my moss green in the middle of summer when it is hot and dry outside. Even regular misting doesn't help on some days, the moss will start to go brown until the humidity returns.
Do you have any desert pines? I always like the trees that grow in the desert, look very nice in contrast to the rocky landscape.
I'll be getting more desert trees in the future once the new greenhouse is up!
When is part 2?
Was that a mother of thousands that you held up at the end? Watch out, soon you'll be finding the fallen plantlets in every pot. Although, perhaps being that they're rather fast growing for succulents and have a quite upright form they'll be good bonsai candidates.
Yes it is a Mother of thousands, I guess it will become a forest all by itself!
Just returning from assembly
Thanks Holly!
👌👌👌...!!!
Thanks X 3!
14:15 Good luck sir!
I'll have to design a nice small pot for the baby Aloe!
Aloe Arborescens.
Could we get a picture of the tree from last work to now before you start the work to see the growth.
Thanks, I'll try and do that, good idea!
Hey do u have a video for beginners I don’t know anything but I want to order one really soon
It is best to check the playlist section of the channel, you can follow some trees as far back as 5 years. Some are started from seed, others from cuttings and some collected or developed from nursery stock.
Very good result sir
Thank you, they are rather experimental, but fun!
My yucca tree stabbed me in the eye
I have a lot of trees with really nasty thorns, every now and then, the trees get me good!
Here's a link to a mature aloe that I saw in Hamamatsu Garden Park (Japan) the other day. imgur.com/a/kE8Empu I figure you probably don't get to see mature ones very often where you live :-) I was actually kind of surprised by the amount of aerial roots. There are aloe farms in this area, but they also grow wild in a big tangled mess. I found this one interesting because the trunk was exposed, which I'd never really seen before. Anyway, I hope you find it interesting!
That totally made my day! Thank you, such a good picture to add to my collection. It inspires me to know that a good tree form is possible! Aloe's are so cool!
Anyone else notice the pill bug at 3:28
I get a lot of spiders living in my trees too. I don't mind the little eco systems!
Good
Thank you again, RBG!
Eso no es áloe vera
01:05 The tree on the left somewhat looks like a pregnant bride. :D
The biggest yucca bonsai looks like a pregnant lady, at least it's trunk😂
Yes, I agree, it's seen a lot of severe pruning over the years and the results are a little unpredictable.
Foist!
You got a Foist!
Nigel Saunders, The Bonsai Zone 😎
foist
So close J!
I thought for sure I had it ! First time your video popped up when I'm on here.
It's so hard now, even the Dubsy and Ali find it difficult!
Latin names, latin names, latin names... and... whatever this is... 😂