How to Turn Nursery Stock into a Shohin Bonsai Creation
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Every holiday at Mirai, we pick out a neglected piece of nursery stock-often a recycled holiday tree or overlooked landscaping materials. This year, we acquired a dilapidated blue rug juniper with tremendous potential for bonsai creation.
Build your skills around maximizing the quality of nursery stock, transforming a commonly available material into a spectacular shohin bonsai display.
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Do more of this please, 99.9% of people can’t get the super old yamadori that you get from the few guys who harvest in the Rockies. Most people do this and need to see this and how to get a bonsai from the $10 Home Depot things.
Exactly. It’s amazing to see some of the material bonsai professionals have access to and wrk with. However, I would love to see them do more demonstrations with trees that the majority of beginner and intermediate bonsai hobbiests have access to.
Here in australia there really isn’t access to the kind of typical yamadori you see from Europe, US and Japan. If you want a juniper, you’re going to be developing it for years in the ground or large containers yourself or buying it from someone who has. More than likely, you’ll be getting material like this.
@@wabisabi3619 These nursery stock videos are a big deal for EVERY bonsai hobbyist in the world.
Even in the US, sourcing quality yamadori is extremely difficult. You typically have to build connections with land owners in places where trees are naturally stunted. Most of our stunted trees are protected within national/state parks with “leave no trace” policies.
I have a hard time believing that access to quality yamadori in Australia is much more limited than it is here. The material is gonna be super different but it’s definitely out there. People just have to put in the work to identify where stunted trees are growing and build relationships with the local landowners. I bet there’s a ton of untapped potential with native species in Australia.
Unfortunately, 99.9% of bonsai enthusiasts aren't the people Mirai and Ryan Neil want to work with. That's why he won't do demos at bonsai clubs and his classes are thousands of dollars and his trees start at $5k but many are $10k and $20k. It's intentional.
You’re talking about a needle in a haystack. In south Australia there are quite a lot of olives, which are a weed, growing in the wild. People do collect those, but it’s a few thousand kilometres from where I live.
Additionally, not many of our natives are going to survive being dug up. It is so dry here that most natives have very long roots not a nice clump of feeder roots at the base.
Virtually everything is protected so you’re limited to private land.
Also, personally, I fundamentally disagree with taking a beautiful tree growing in its habitat because you want to ‘own’ it. Ethically, I’m against collecting except in certain circumstances such as the olives as they are invasive species.
It’s also not possible to import trees here. The options are, grow your own or buy from someone who grows.
In my situation I am a grower. I have hundreds of trees in development.
Additionally, juniper are perfect for digging up as you can have them survive the process with very little roots if you apply the right aftercare. We also do not have native deciduous trees which are also easier to dig at the right time of year.
I wouldn’t have survived the last three years without Mirai.
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Right, helped get through Covid lockdowns
Can’t believe the end result. Incredible job 🔥
We had the pleasure of having Ryan Neil in South Africa a good few years ago now. I think some of the comments here are pretty unfair. He is an absolute professional . The fact that he does a video like this one just demonstrates his willingness to grow the bonsai community. Remember you watched this video for free like I did.
Thanks Ryan
Nursery Blue Rug Junipers are an absolute gold vein of great material. I comb through a lot of nurseries when I'm bored and thinking about adding another tree to my collection, and I'm always amazed at what I find when looking through these. Some of the best bonsai material I've found were neglected Blue Rug Junipers just stuffed in a corner of a big nursery and totally neglected. Almost feels like I'm rescuing them lmao.
Love this type of video. Much more relatable to the type of material we have access to. Great job Ryan!
Thank you very much Ryan for this very interesting video! Your professionalism and technique are incredible!👍👍👍👍🔝
I'm so very happy to see you work on something that people like me can and do actually have in my collection, it's given me so much confidence to see something that isn't like a massive piece that you have been growing for the last 13 years or it cost thousands,
So thank you from a disabled fan of you and bonsai trees
Here's to a happy new year Mirai crew! Thank you for everything each of you do ❤️
Thank you Ryan and the Mirai team!
that is one of the most stunning junipers i have ever seen!
Beautiful intro! Thanks so much. We would not be here without you.
Wow good idea . Never seen this done on a crawling juniper.
Thanks for this video! Before covid I had 3 bonsai, now I have over 30 😂😂😂 many are from nursery stock
What a fantastic video. I really enjoyed watching you approach this kind of material that is available to us all.
Thanks Ryan.
Love this little tree. Great simple design. I love the manner in which Ryan distills design principles.
What really gets me is that beautiful little pot! Superb!
I'm a newbie and your passion has inspired me even more than it was! Thank you.. Well done and congratulations on sharing your awesome, fascinating and special journey 👏👍👌❤️😁
Legendary stuff as always. Thank you Ryan
Hey Ryan! I'm always working with "accessible" material like this thinking in my head I wish I had some Ryan Neil type material right now. Seems now I do! Lol! You da man!
Wonderful work on this juniper!
Thanks for sharing the love!
I saw a guy post on a board that you much teach classes with top level material, I laughed, what a fool, no beginner should be anywhere near top material or 100 yr old yamadori. This is the type of stuff we should be killing, oh I mean styling and potting. I have been doing it 5 years and collected 4 trees from the volcano, only one died and 3 years later I am ready to pot them but it all comes from learning. Great video about what can be done and creating your own style and methods, while still learning from a master.
And once again you never cease to amaze me ! What a great result from a simple nursery stock .
Thanks Ryan for this video, it's perfect for me as a bonsai-beginner. Wish you all the best for 2023.
That turned out amazing!
That was incredibly impressive!
Another awesome demonstration Ryan!
I thank you and the team!
Thanks Ryan. Nice tree.
That tree is spectacular! Thank you so much for sharing this with us.
That is beautiful work! I'd never thought of how that much deadwood could be so nice. I'd love to see what you could do with a nursery stock Ebbings Silverberry. Thank you for all your instruction.
Really wonderful creation
Thanks again for great demo that is really “accessible” on so many levels. I love the result. Would say more but have to run to local Home Depot….now.
Lovely ☺ 🙏 We have the same scissors by the look of it. Fantastic 👍
This was great - more like this please
It looks fantastic.
I am inspired but also mystified. Really nice work. I am so damn impressed.
More videos like these please!!
Wow! ❤❤ Thanks so much for this video, Ryan - inspirational!!
Master 🙏, Lots of love from Nepal 🇳🇵🥰🥰🥰💐🌴🎄🌲🌳🍁🇳🇵🙏🙏🙏
Hello Ryan, thank you very much for this successful presentation and inspiration for me. You have managed it perfectly again. Greetings Gernot aka Bonsai-Treff from Berlin (Germany)
interesting to see that branch on the inside of the first big bend - books would say it's 'wrong' but it works well here!
Happy new year Ryan and to the Mirai crew.
We often think there should not be branches on the inside of curves, but your first major branch sits at the bottom of or below the big negative space of the major trunk curve and it definitely works. I need to think about why it does and how you knew that this design choice would work.....
Really interesting video. Very cool! 😊
Awesome I've been waiting for you to work on something like this.. At Bass n' Bonsai this is the type of material I cut my teeth on...
the background music you use is so good
That was amazing 😊thank you
Love this video!
25:26 right back at ya! 😀 Happy Spring!
Nice 🌲
Just AMAZING 👏 😍
That is soo cool! I learnt a lot from this video! Thank you x Happy New Year!!
Seeing the way the pocket lid on his shirt is doing what it’s doing I can assure you that is a Carhartt shirt.
Bless you mirai 🥹
Love this things! Happy holiday and Happy new year!
Thanks for everything Ryan happy new year to you and your team 😊
Really nice! I would love to know how the tree recovered, now almost 15 months later.
Salam hormat ya pak ,,,saya senang melihat tutorialnya ,,, dan ini saya ikut melengkapi ,,,semoga sukses selalu ,,,,,amin ,, 🙏
PRETTY AMAZING 😮
THANKS FOR YOUR VÍDEO
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I HAVE JUNIPER HORIZONTALES 😍 FROM BRASIL 🇧🇷 🇧🇷
Ryan, where did you get those awesome shear's!?🤲 I would love to get a pair! Fantastic job on this lesson today!👍🤝🇺🇸
I'm a bonsai beginner. So, I watch your excellent and some others. Sadly, I worried about a tree when Peter Chen lopped off a thick limb. So, please. tell me how severely lopping shocks a tree.
Great stuff!! Is this video current, meaning was this work done in December/January, or is this footage from earlier in the year??
Yeah! It was from our 2022 holiday steam.
In Arizona can this be done now? Given you did root and foliage reduction.
RUclipss closed captions are ridiculous "mommy-sized tree" 😄
Nice. Enjoy your videos but have to say I watch in 1.5 time.
What is the aftercare of doing this? I've been told not to do all of this drastic stuff at one time.
so one would typically style and then wait to repot nursery material? or repot to see trunk movement and then wait until the following year to prune and pot?
Love you too ❤
Is this a juniperus horizontalis?
Also I now know what to do with my itigowa juniper shoin
Legend
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Neil 2024!!!
3 dollar tree to a 300 dollar tree in an hour! Brilliant 😂😮😂
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Good with the sound turned off...
Lol why comment that
Another denotation of age in humans is greying of hair... :-)