Ginkgo Biloba Bonsai | Winter pruning a Ginkgo group planting
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- Опубліковано 20 січ 2025
- In this video I show you some fascinating insight into this amazing species, sometimes referred to as a "living fossil". The Ginkgo is the ideal species for bonsai trees. Then I do the last of the winter pruning on my Ginkgo Biloba group planting. Or as some call it, my bonsai forest.
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With this quality videos you should have even more subs! Thank you!
@@Carlos_Cerda_Moya thanks so much! Please share with your bonsai friends.. maybe I'll get a few more subs 😊
Hi Dave. Very much appreciate your videos. The quality of the picture and sound is excellent, think the way that you take the viewers through your process is clear and informative. Enjoy the white board tutorials too! Hope you can keep them coming this year. Best wishes
@@martingriffith-jones5084 thanks Martin! Yes plenty more planned this year, some will have whiteboard action for sure 😊👍🏻
I think you were checking the spiders were safe and sound! The forest is looking good.
Thanks Nigel! Good guess, that's certainly what I should have been doing!
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Great video work my friend. Have a great week. Cool trees. 😎🍺🍺
Cheers Jered! Yeah these are very cool, highl6 recommended species. Have a great week too. 🍻👍🏻
Nice bonsai..my friend
Thanks my friend 👍🏻
Again, Dave, a great video, though it was short it was very informative!
Thanks C'n'G! Yes in fact I had another 30 minutes of footage of the work on this group planting and I thought, not many people would sit through the whole thing so I basically pruned away the unnecessary video clips and kept the important parts. Cheers 🌳👍🏻
Long videos while you work on bonsai is a chill time for the viewers 😁
@@clipngrowbonsai6946 yep I can relate to that. On the other hand YT gives you stats for how long people watch your videos (as an average; not individuals), and I can see the longer my videos are, the less the average view time as a percentage of the video. So I guess most of the viewers are telling me (without knowing it) that they want shorter videos! Anyway I really appreciate your feedback!! 🌳👍🏻
To each his own, don't stress too much about making longer videos. The best thing about this channel is its content 👌🏽👌🏽✌🏽
@@clipngrowbonsai6946 Thanks again!
Lovely little group, the dark blue pot looks amazing next to the lush green foliage.
Thanks Stuart! The pot does look good but later in spring I'm going to add 4 more ginkgos to the forest, so I have another, bigger pot lined up. The blue oval pot, not yet sure what I'll use this for. Cheers 👍🏻
The best breakfasts are served with a new upload from blueskybonsai haha. I’ve always been fascinated by ginkgo trees, not only for their prehistoric history, but because if their unique leaves, colors, and bark texture. Haven’t gotten one for bonsai but there’s a couple beautiful trees in my neighborhood. As for what you were checking for in that cut, I would think you were seeing if the cut was too close to the shoot to avoid that branch possibly dying back. Thanks again for the video!
Thanks Garrett! yes they really are unique - you got the right word there. You're right I was chcking the back of the pruners weren't going to cut into the new leader. I think there was qlso an element of checking that it was focussed in ok with close-up zoom lens. Normally I would edit that out but I thought it was fun to keep it in this one. Cheers! 🌳👍🏻
My wife wants me to get a ginkgo tree. Love the grouping! Thank you for showing off the trees!
Your wife is talking good sense.. go for it! Cheers 🌳👍🏻
Nice 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 very beautiful 🙏
Thanks so much 🌳👍🏻
Your videos are so great. There are so calming and the content is excellent
Thanks so much! I'm very happy you're enjoying my videos. 😊👍🏻
I'm pretty jealous of your olive tree too. I saw some in Costco for 400 pounds. So much, do you know at what age they start to get gnarly bark? I have 5 olives that I'm training to start becoming bonsai but they were really small when I hot them so I'm guessing I'll never see that rough bark!
@@packing999 thanks again! olives need to be several decades old before the bark goes like that, that's why they are expensive. I got lucky, the tree was already in the garden when I moved to this house...
Checking your cut was going to miss that branch and collar? I have a Ginkgo too, I got it from World of Bonsai near Cheltenham on my way home from Malvern Spring Festival 😍 I love it. My mother always made sure we stopped at the Gingkos in Sheffield Park in East Sussex when we would go to look at the autumn colours 😊xx
Yep love ginkgos! I think I was also checkong that the camera was actually pointing at my cut 😊
Sheffield Park, isn't that where the Bluebell Railway is? We used to go there when I was a kid hundreds of years ago! I grew up in w.sussex.
@@BlueSkyBonsai Yes! Really close by 😊 I'm Kentish born and bred, so we'd make a proper day trip of it in my dad's green Renault 12 😁
@@PumpkinBecki Renault 12 was a classic! I've just spent the last hour down memory lane, looking round that whole area, ashdown forest brings back lots of good memories. Google earth satellite and street view are great for wasting a load of time! I left East Grinstead about the same year Peter Chan set up the nursery there a few miles away... no connection of course!
Very nice. Think we will try a Ginkgo forest/grouping. Would like to see the grouping/forest after repotting.
Thanks Jeff! I will film the repotting when I get to it, and if all goes to plan will make it another video. I have in mind a larger, shallower pot and to make a bit of a diorama, with the spinney over to one side, a bit like a scene in the ashdown forest in Sussex. We'll see if that actually turns into a reality!
Love your videos , wish they were more often, how about a tour of you collection
Thanks so much! I also wish I could do more often. But with a full time job and 3 kids, my mini trees don't get as much of my time as I'd like!
Glad you're enjoying the videos. 🌳👍🏻
I know what you were checking for...smells.
Seriously cool tree. Maybe tied for first most interesting with dawn redwood? So weird and a bit tricky that the stubs don’t heal over the way most trees do, but the directional chipping looks good as you’ve done it. Also the growth always seems to be vertical from what I’ve seen (the only other reference is Nigel’s!) which is cool...like a candle flame! Cheers bro, another great vid.
Hahaha you got it!! 🤣🤣 In case of any hidden Ginkgo fruit, and I don't want to mix males and females in the same group.. who knows what might happen??? Yes the growth is pretty vertical, maybe another reason why these make a good group planting!
Ps. Good call about the dawn redwood. Looks like you'll have to do a a fascinating facts vid on those this year 😉👍🏻
Wow nice 👌
Thank you!! 🌳👍🏻
I love this species. I have one young one in training. I hope it survives its first winter in Connecticut. Thanks.
Cheers Matt. Hope yours survives, it should do, they are pretty cold hardy. Mine has survived freezing temperatures for two weeks this year sometimes down to -10°C = 14°F which is unusual for Madrid. 🤞🏻
What a beautiful tree! The leaf is unlike anything I've ever seen before. I have a few young ones in the ground but perhaps it's time to get a nice forest like yours 😁
Thanks Alex! I say go for it! The great thing about group plantings is that you can make them look good even when the trees are still young. 🌳👍🏻
Great video Dave. I dont think i have seen these species before. I am a beginner though. Forest's work well don't they for trees like this. I have a dawn redwood forest , that i am looking forward to working on. I just keep buying projects and is not doing my bank balance any good! I going to start blaming you :)
Thanks Colin. I'm glad I've introduced you to a new species. I also love dawn redwood as a species, but sadly i do not have any yet. I've been looking out for the right tree. It's my birthday again this year so maybe that will be my excuse to fork out a nice one! I'm fine with taking the blame for your tree purchases- think positively, you're doing a favour for the environment and the economy, and keeping the bonsai community afloat! #NoRegrets 🌳👍🏻
I love this tree. I have some nursery young trees and some cuttings. I wanted to have made a forest, but I think it's too late now, isn't it? They are all sprouted. Although I've heard it's a very tough tree (otherwise it wouldn't have been with us for so many centuries 😜) Thanks for sharing, Dave. Do you have an update on this forest?
Yes they are very special trees indeed.
Last May I repotted these with four more into a 9-tree forest and they all survived. You can see that here: ua-cam.com/video/XJzK02HGUAs/v-deo.html
BUT... for about 1 month after repotting, the leaves kept wilting outdoors in the June sun / heat so I kept it indoors next to a window, with frequent misting, then it was fine by August. So... my recommendation is: can repot and create your forest now if you do absolute minimal root pruning, bit if you need to do more root pruning like I did in this video, it would be safer to wait until March next year. Or, be prepared to keep it indoors with TLC for 4-6 weeks after repotting.
Here's how it looks a week or two ago in end April: flic.kr/p/2ngB41u
@@BlueSkyBonsai that’s true! I watched that video months ago, Dave. I have to see it again then 😉
Mr.Dave! An absolute noob question:
How do you get that kind of moss?
I bought some galapagos moss but its like spaghnum moss. I see your kind of moss on most professional/ quality bonsai. Nigel Saunders has almost all of his trees full of these. How do you get this kind of moss? Buy it? Grow it?
By the way, lovely channel, I'll eagerly wait your new video :)
Thanks so much! Once you have a few trees the moss just grows on some of them on its own. I mean, clearly the spores must have come from somewhere! They easily self-migrate from pot to pot. But when I first took a liking to moss, I found it on the shaded-side of walls, sidewalks and tree roots. If you find that near your home, it's better than buying it because you know it is well suited to your climate. Scraping off walls and sidewalks can elicit some funny looks from bypassers! But it's worth it. You can find a few different moss types in most neighborhood environments. When you get it home, soak it all in a plate of water for 20 minutes or so then remove all the grit and dirt from the underside. Remove tiny slugs and snails! You could also treat it with insecticide at that point, because, the biggest issue I have with moss is the birds love it, specifically they drill into it pecking away violently at your soil surface because they can sense the little grubs and other mini bird food! I have to use hanging shiny discs and a fake owl to deter the birds. I think the discs are most effective, they owl only works if you keep relocating it. HTH
@@BlueSkyBonsai that's very interesting, thank you so much. So basically, I should just go on a walk around and get the ordinary moss from streets etc?
What is the life span of such moss?
Also, would this work on indoor trees as well? Like a jade or a ficus?
Thank you so much once again for your input.
I would love a ginkgo forest , but my one tree cost a fair price and a good hunt for it , somehow I decided mine was a male , was hoping it was the rarer female , mine also grew like the clappers this spring so I had to chop it before the wind or the roof damaged it , I direction pruned it so hopefully it will look like yours and get a new leader , nice video as always
Thanks Peter, yes these do grow really quickly I wonder if that's down to millions of years of evolution.. OTOH most deciduous trees with large leaf surface area do grow very vigorously.
Maybe you can try to root cuttings off yours next spring and start your own group planting? 🌳👍🏻
I really like a flower and a fruit that bonsai. Its color is very attractive. This tree doesn't exist here in our place. I want to have like that soon.
Thanks ZN. the Ginkgo trees also don't exist here in Spain, except imported to some bonsai nurseries. Worth having though. 🌳👍
Very nice.super
Thanks so much! 🌳👍🏻
Can I trunk chop my ginkgo so I can have it branch out?
Yes you can, and it will be fine, but know that on a ginkgo the chop itself won't heal over so the cut will always be visible. Like in this video you could decide the front of the tree then do your chop slanting to the rear, so that the chop isn't visible from the front. Also my advice is: if you pruned the roots this year, wait until next year to do the chop. And secondly, if you are going to trunk chop, wait a few weeks after the leaves have dropped in autumn, so all the tree's energy is stored in the roots and the trunk base. That's the safest time to trunk chop a deciduous tree. HTH!
Its crazy how they are dinosaur trees. I would want one for that fact alone!!
Yes also they don't have adverse effects of aging so apparently in Asia there are some examplea that are thousands of years old! Would be amazing to take a cutting off one of those but I guess it'd be prohibited.. cheers!
@@BlueSkyBonsai You just need to do a quick snip when the guards are distracted for a second. lol. it would be cool to see them though. they never get a mention when people bring up ancient trees
@@BackGardenBonsai yes definitely. Think I'll save that for when I'm retired and can travel freely again 😆
“Maidenhead” is an archaic word for the hymen
Wow I did not know that! Crikey 😊
I love the leaf of this tree but the "no regeneration" trait is very bad in my opinion. I hate ugly scars. Is it posible to do jins?
Cheers Carlos! I know what you mean, but the wood turns a similar colour to the bark so I'm no sure a jin would look good. I haven't seen one on a ginkgo.
In che periodo va potato ginco biloba bonsai
I prune mine twice a year: once in January before the leaf buds swell, and once in July when the leaves are becoming overgrown.
How tall are they ?
@@nasihmuhamad in this video from 2021, they were about 30cm tall. Now in late 2024 they are over 60cm tall.
@ Where do we see that new video and thanks
@@nasihmuhamad did you see the follow-up video on Ginkgos? ua-cam.com/video/XJzK02HGUAs/v-deo.html
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Terrific to see this video. Ginkgo is my favorite tree. As a bonsai enthusiast I have 26 in my bonsai collection all different cultivars. Since I have been experimenting and growing them for 15 years, if there is anything I can help you with, please don’t hesitate to contact me. In the meantime, May I recommend an online site “The Ginkgo Pages” by Cor Kwant for a wealth of information, including where the common name of “Maidenhair Tree” comes from.
Thanks a lot Jeff, I'm so glad you found this video. I really appreciate your offer of help. I will certainly look at the Ginkgo Pages site you have recommended. You might be interested to hear that this week I bought four more slightly younger ginkgos because in spring I plan to turn this into a 9 tree forest, as we used to call them a "spinney", in a more suitable pot. Thanks for dropping in and I hope to stay in touch!
@@BlueSkyBonsai if you give me your email address, I will send you picture of my ginkgo forest.
@@BlueSkyBonsai are you on Facebook?
@@jeffdodson1675 my email is: dave@blueskybonsai.net. would love to see your ginkgo forest. What I'm planning is more like a penjing planting, in a wider shallowish pot. But, we'll see if that actually becomes a reality.. my biggest issue is limited free time for this beautiful hobby.
I have a couple of questions about two things in Cor Kwant's information, maybe you could help me with. The Ginkgo roots are apparently very sensitive to cold frosts and should be protected.. but is this more than any other deciduous bonsai? Mine has always been outside through thick snow and freezing temperatures, and is fine. But admittedly the Madrid winter is usually quite mild.
Secondly, do you defoliate your ginkgos in summer to slow growth and encourage smaller leaves? The forest too??
Thanks again! 🌳👍🏻
@@jeffdodson1675 I am on facebook but rarely check it so probably easier to reach me by email. Thanks!
c est beau mais c est juste 5 tiges coupées clip n grow.tout le monde peut faire ca;=) je m abonne merci pour votre chaine:)
Merci beaucoup! Eh bien, je l'ai récemment transplanté, et ajouté 4 autres ginkgos, pour en faire une forêt de 9 arbres, il y a une photo ici: flic.kr/p/2m1g494 - Je publierai une vidéo du travail dans quelques semaines.
Love the pot! Thanks for the awesome content.
Cheers Edinborogh, glad you liked it!