Enjoyed your Bonsai today with a big cup of English breakfast tea with milk. Makes me feel kind of British 😊 Thanks Xavier and enjoy your day 😘 Cheers 🙋♀️
I forgot he did early uploads. I'm not sure it works as well (on the algorithm) because it takes much longer for viewers to watch - but I don't care :)
@@XaviersBonsaiRetreat I understand and its a shame that the algorythm influences it like that. I dont blame you for following it. Saying that, Tony did grow his channel at a high rate still.
Here in Thailand I have many ficuses, especially tiger bark, and I dig how you've let yours branch out naturally, upward turned. Thanks for the bench tour!
Cheers - I am deliberately keeping the wire away and seeing what i can achieve with just 'clip and grow' technique. It is a lot slower process and it is overdue a prune :)
Having bonsai for dinner is just as much fun as breakfast!❤ In my gardening experience, buddlea go from cut back to a stump in winter to 5 or 6 feet tall by mid summer, very easy to grow from seed, and contiuously flowering on all branches. I'm having a hard time imagining it as a bonsai, about the same as something like rosemary. Some of my strange bonsai starters this year are camellias, blueberries, fuschias, and persian limes. 😊
Fun update! Once your Bay Leaf bonsai is underway, you may get those pretty white flowers in late spring. I love the work that Ian has done on his bay as well. Since bays sucker so easily, it should be a great candidate for air-layering. Good luck! In my hand hands, buddleia garden trees root rotted in our heavy clay soil. Just when they get going nicely, whole sections would die off. Not sure how Buddleia globosa (with the globes of golden flowers) responds.
Thanks for the update and great video, Xavier! Sorry to see the buddleia isn't doing so well. I think they do tend to like quite a lot of sun, so hopefully getting a bit more will help... That pinocchio clip had me creasing up though 😅
Cheers Lucy - I fear the process of moving it into a bonsai container was the start of the end for that beautiful garden shrub. Every year a little bit more died back :(
Really like this mini series, maybe the key with buddleias is to start with something bigger. I have one gardendori stump and it seems to do quite nicely, although it's just first season. And they tend to be quite sensitive on hard root pruning
You are probably right. This was in great shape for many years as a slightly bigger example. As soon as I put it into a pot it began the very slow process of dying back each year.
Have you done a horse chestnut as a bonsai my friend,I have one growing in the ground that's about 10 years old I keep pruning it back every year,my wife does not want it to grow full size so I am thinking of potting it up . Thanks Xavier for your videos . Your friend mike ...
@@XaviersBonsaiRetreatI don’t like being pedantic, I realised it was an honest mistake and was waiting for the possible response that it was indeed a buddleia. Hard to tell without a close up.
@@Jacob-yb6bv If you have seen many of my earlier videos I was always mis-identifying species. In the first year there was a big debate about zelkova and chinese elm :)
It says a lot to have a favourite bonsai creator!
They change with the seasons too :)
Enjoyed your Bonsai today with a big cup of English breakfast tea with milk. Makes me feel kind of British 😊 Thanks Xavier and enjoy your day 😘 Cheers 🙋♀️
Cheers Martina - don't work too hard :)
I like this new side feature, Xavier.
Cheers, I was trying for something shorter and less formalised...alas some of the later ones pass the 10 minute mark with ease :)
I do appreciate a morning upload. Reminds me of the Tony days, i would always check if he uploaded when i got up and usually had.
I forgot he did early uploads. I'm not sure it works as well (on the algorithm) because it takes much longer for viewers to watch - but I don't care :)
@@XaviersBonsaiRetreat I understand and its a shame that the algorythm influences it like that. I dont blame you for following it. Saying that, Tony did grow his channel at a high rate still.
@@Wise-Man-Say I've decided to do this for breakfast so people know it is hopefully short and less demanding on the attention :)
Most enjoyable video Xavier!
Thanks Raymond
Thanks for the BfB!
BfB in the PSGF???
Here in Thailand I have many ficuses, especially tiger bark, and I dig how you've let yours branch out naturally, upward turned. Thanks for the bench tour!
Cheers - I am deliberately keeping the wire away and seeing what i can achieve with just 'clip and grow' technique. It is a lot slower process and it is overdue a prune :)
Great update xav
Looked that forest mate it’s coming along nicely 👊👊
Cheers Andy
Having bonsai for dinner is just as much fun as breakfast!❤ In my gardening experience, buddlea go from cut back to a stump in winter to 5 or 6 feet tall by mid summer, very easy to grow from seed, and contiuously flowering on all branches. I'm having a hard time imagining it as a bonsai, about the same as something like rosemary. Some of my strange bonsai starters this year are camellias, blueberries, fuschias, and persian limes. 😊
Sounds really interesting - I had a couple of mame blueberry for a few years but they eventually died back to oblivion :(
You could always take the leaves off the Bay and dry them to use later 👍
Good point :)
Fun update! Once your Bay Leaf bonsai is underway, you may get those pretty white flowers in late spring. I love the work that Ian has done on his bay as well. Since bays sucker so easily, it should be a great candidate for air-layering. Good luck! In my hand hands, buddleia garden trees root rotted in our heavy clay soil. Just when they get going nicely, whole sections would die off. Not sure how Buddleia globosa (with the globes of golden flowers) responds.
Buddleia - It seems to be a challenge doomed for eventual failure - but still fun to try as they are all garden cuttings etc.
Good video Xavier
Thanks Nerina
Thanks for the update and great video, Xavier! Sorry to see the buddleia isn't doing so well. I think they do tend to like quite a lot of sun, so hopefully getting a bit more will help... That pinocchio clip had me creasing up though 😅
Cheers Lucy - I fear the process of moving it into a bonsai container was the start of the end for that beautiful garden shrub. Every year a little bit more died back :(
Really like this mini series, maybe the key with buddleias is to start with something bigger. I have one gardendori stump and it seems to do quite nicely, although it's just first season. And they tend to be quite sensitive on hard root pruning
You are probably right. This was in great shape for many years as a slightly bigger example. As soon as I put it into a pot it began the very slow process of dying back each year.
The flowers on your budleia are different than the ones here in Canada. The flowers are a more conical shape. They grow wild here near where I live.
I have to admit another error on my part - it was a sage I showed you that had the flowers. I checked the leaf texture after somebody else noticed :)
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Good morning Bruce
I think you had your coffee before you started cutting. 😅
Or two :)
Have you done a horse chestnut as a bonsai my friend,I have one growing in the ground that's about 10 years old I keep pruning it back every year,my wife does not want it to grow full size so I am thinking of potting it up . Thanks Xavier for your videos .
Your friend mike ...
Morning Mike, no never tried a horse chestnut. That is probably the ultimate challenge :)
Those branches that you have cut off . just stick it in potted soil and you will have a lot of trees.
Does Bay root that easily?
@@XaviersBonsaiRetreat it takes roots very easily.
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Thanks for the enthusiastic support :)
@@XaviersBonsaiRetreat bonsai breakfast is always nice!
Is that a buddleia at 7.30? Not sure it is. Sage?
The leaf texture agrees with you - good spot. I always mix up my species when I do these unplanned tours :)
@@XaviersBonsaiRetreatI don’t like being pedantic, I realised it was an honest mistake and was waiting for the possible response that it was indeed a buddleia. Hard to tell without a close up.
@@Jacob-yb6bv If you have seen many of my earlier videos I was always mis-identifying species. In the first year there was a big debate about zelkova and chinese elm :)