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 🙋♀️
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
Cheers Martina - don't work too hard :)
@t3dwards13
3 ай бұрын
It says a lot to have a favourite bonsai creator!
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
They change with the seasons too :)
@bibnida7945
3 ай бұрын
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!
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
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 :)
@Wise-Man-Say
3 ай бұрын
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.
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
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 :)
@Wise-Man-Say
3 ай бұрын
@@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.
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
@@Wise-Man-Say I've decided to do this for breakfast so people know it is hopefully short and less demanding on the attention :)
@malsrfun2956
3 ай бұрын
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. 😊
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
Sounds really interesting - I had a couple of mame blueberry for a few years but they eventually died back to oblivion :(
@DrunkBonsai
3 ай бұрын
I like this new side feature, Xavier.
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
Cheers, I was trying for something shorter and less formalised...alas some of the later ones pass the 10 minute mark with ease :)
@sueb1317
3 ай бұрын
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.
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
Buddleia - It seems to be a challenge doomed for eventual failure - but still fun to try as they are all garden cuttings etc.
@markjagger7139
3 ай бұрын
You could always take the leaves off the Bay and dry them to use later 👍
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
Good point :)
@misovalachovic4988
3 ай бұрын
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
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
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.
@lucycloves6335
3 ай бұрын
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 😅
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
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 :(
@sharonbuckley4591
3 ай бұрын
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.
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
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 :)
@Bonsaicrazy
3 ай бұрын
Great update xav Looked that forest mate it’s coming along nicely 👊👊
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
Cheers Andy
@raymondplodzien7459
3 ай бұрын
Most enjoyable video Xavier!
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
Thanks Raymond
@itisjustmedude
3 ай бұрын
I think you had your coffee before you started cutting. 😅
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
Or two :)
@DavesBonsai
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for the BfB!
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
BfB in the PSGF???
@brucedeacon28
3 ай бұрын
👍👌🙂
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
Good morning Bruce
@natrjack965
3 ай бұрын
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 ...
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
Morning Mike, no never tried a horse chestnut. That is probably the ultimate challenge :)
@percymichaud8003
3 ай бұрын
Those branches that you have cut off . just stick it in potted soil and you will have a lot of trees.
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
Does Bay root that easily?
@percymichaud8003
3 ай бұрын
@@XaviersBonsaiRetreat it takes roots very easily.
@nerinat8371
3 ай бұрын
Good video Xavier
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
Thanks Nerina
@scheers100
3 ай бұрын
👍👍👊👏🫶
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for the enthusiastic support :)
@scheers100
3 ай бұрын
@@XaviersBonsaiRetreat bonsai breakfast is always nice!
@Jacob-yb6bv
3 ай бұрын
Is that a buddleia at 7.30? Not sure it is. Sage?
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
The leaf texture agrees with you - good spot. I always mix up my species when I do these unplanned tours :)
@Jacob-yb6bv
3 ай бұрын
@@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.
@XaviersBonsaiRetreat
3 ай бұрын
@@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 :)
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