At 63 I've never lost the 'little boy' in me coming home with pockets full of rocks. Rock collecting has led to learning local geology and using local rocks, roots, driftwood harmonize the bonsai to the area.

"Heres a look at Quackers now. As you can see, hes developing a nice thick trunk and a beautiful canopy"

I must be ripening with age...watching someone show off their non-specific rock collection isn't something I would have spent time on 10 yrs ago. Watching this has me feelin' fine.

1:19 is the best smile ever! It looks like the best birthday gift of them all. I love how you describe them all as "really cool", and we are all nodding along with you.

Love the rocks, Nigel. Love that you have a special spot for them.

The simple things in life bring joy...even a rock. I love all your knowledge, on so many subjects and that you share the real you. Great job as always.

A rock full of benches lol glad you put that in at the end, great plantings should do well in the bonsai zone

"I got a rock full of benches" haha me asf

I wonder if anyone living nearby has noticed that there's never any moss on the sidewalks near Nigel's house.

If anyone can grow a rock, it’s you, Nigel.

I love how much you appreciate things l in e your rocks! I love them too, and people think I’m a little odd for it sometimes!!

I'm so happy to see the Baobab success.

Kudos, Nigel, that moss and rock planting in its simplicity is breathtaking. Quackers is looking handsome as always, and it seems like those aeoniums are perking up nicely! Their parent plant has also perked up considerably this month too, I've given it more frequent watering and a small fertilising and the surviving growth has begun to explode! I hope to obtain some form of bonsai pot soon, but for now I'll focus on making a super draining bonsai mix for my portulacarias and get some vigor in them! We'll done again, mate! - Ashley Bonner

I see Stefan's influence in these small compositions!

A rock full of benches? Well, doesn't this sound interesting! The little rock planting looks great. I always liked the rock/moss gardens in Japan.

I really like your work, combination of nature and art.

Hi Nigel!! Love those rocks. Some of them remind me of Elephant skin rocks used in aquariums. One thing that my favorite aquarium artist suggests when using them, is to try to match the primary direction of the major cracks for a more pleasing result. I think that would be true for Bonsai accent plantings as well. Another different idea, which you probably thought of as well, is to use fine sand and a forked Zen pattern around the rock for an accent planting. Oh, another thought just popped up. One of the 'weeds' I have growing in my yard looks a lot like the grasses you just potted up. The difference is that the tallest that I've seen them grow is maybe 3". How cool that would look to have one of those planted in the same pot next to one of your majestic looking little/medium rocks!! As always Nigel, thank you for sharing all you do!! Especially when you have a rockfull of tables!! That's not something you get to see very often. 8-)

Those giant sequoia seedings are looking great! i get to take mine out of the fridge in three days!

Awesome and thank you artist for the inspiration, thank you!

Accent composition looks great Nigel! These ARE some nice rocks!

I'd love to see a tutorial on how you did the cracked glaze paint job one day Nigel! That would be lovely!

So enjoyed this video. Thanks for including the nugget at the end - loved it!

That's a beautiful rock planting!

Love the new video!!! Keep it up, my collection was inspired by this channel

/ so Loved the Rocks,lots of wonderfull tiny worlds. Rock full of Benchers

Hello friends! Everyone have a good time exchanging bonsai

A true Master at work.

A rock full of benches? Oh my stars! Love it! I never thought I would see you painting rocks Nigel, but I love the rocks you foraged. I was laughing as you did show and tell with each rock as you were moving them off your table, but I kept thinking, I love this one, it's my favorite. No, I like this one better, and so on and so forth. These rock are so cool! They have so much character. Really love the little rock planting. It's perfection! Lisa

Definitely neat little accent plantings!

Great work Nigel, the penjing and the grass look super. Also, I always appreciate seeing your Acacia-style Serissa, it has been my favourite of your trees since many years ago!

great video Nigel, perfect mix of everything

Rock envy. Keep growing. Thanks

Each of them of rocks just like the single art, super love them^^ . And couldn't say how much thank you sir.!!

I love that little planting you made

Ace. Very inspirational.

4:30 is the ultimate Simba rock 🦁

That rock planting is simply stunning, beautiful composition

Cool rocks and great moss forming on them. Super collection. The grassy field for an accent plant with the added rocks show off the grass in a nice looking form. The moss planting you did was super cool. Really a great looking accent planting.

That grass has a better pot than most of my trees hahahaha

Perfect timing to ask them to airlayer some hard to reach high up branches!! LOL! Love those 3d printed pots!

Nigel, I LOVED your rock commentary in the beginning, and your final product looks amazing! Well done!

I really really really would love to have a small moss garden! So sweet! Summer do looks cool!

Thanks, Nigel!

1:51 "she's a butte" LOL!!!

My old cat found your video very entertaining. I did too. Thanks Nigel.

I went to goodwill on a pot hunt today. Came home with 9 candidates including what I think would have been a Chinese style cascade pot, but for no drain hole, and... AND a super pale blue tall square, flared vase, that looks AMAZING with my hibiscus, I cant wait to drill it out.

New hair style looks nice 👍👍👍

I had a very small kusomono using blue fescue in a muted burgundy pot that was absolutely stunning. I still have the pot. Perhaps I should fill it again with the blue fescue.

Nigel! You could be in real danger. Those rocks look suspiciously like the rock monsters from Never-ending Story. Maybe you should cover the rock pallet with heavy gauge wire so they can’t transform.. You should also probably have Neytari stand watch as well.

I love the rock planting must have a go at an accent planting I have some pots that are Bit small so I will have a go at both rocks and grasses.

Today I am surprised that I have followed you long enough to appreciate how the Serissa trunk has thickened!

hi pinkshed brenda from australia just watched accent and penjing streem as its to cold and wet outside 15 c hard to grow moss here in s.a. so i use fish tank gravel around my rocks in the little pots i was so inspired by your town penjing i went to pottery class and made an australian house ruin with the outside dunny and the old water tank i planted two multy trunked australian figs and ground covers looks good thanks for all your good streem

I printed your pot a while back! I'm still trying to decide what to do with it as well. Thanks for the inspiration now!

Thanks for the channel recommendations!

Love the rocks in the grass planting!

Nice! I like it!

I enjoy the rock plantations! Very cute and calming good luck with your baobab bonsai :) I propogated 4 seedlings here in Alberta. All 4 of them succumbed to spider mites + probably improper care. however!!! 1 of the 4 Baobabs came back to life after 9+ months of ZERO water and minimal light. can you believe that. I call it my Zombie Tree, and it is now my prized bonsai which is flourishing with growth this season.

"I got a Rock full of Benches." LoL

It's Quackers the little youtube star! What a cutie :) Thanks for sharing this video with us, those rocks are so beautiful. Your new moss garden is already looking lovely too! Really beautiful growth already this year in the Zone!

woooow....very good.....

Hi Nigel the rocks are amazing don't even get rocks like them in Scotland

Nice rock!

One clump of grass behind the rock pot would have looked good!

Like what you did with the accent plant. Nice to see Quackers. Will he ever become accustomed to the other ducks? Love that little plastic printed pot. Wouldn't be able to tell it wasn't ceramic, except that you told us. You did a really great job with the crackle finish. Like what you did with the rock/moss in the little pot. Enjoyed watching this video.

Interesting and very cool

Love your rock planting Nigel 😍 These pieces always make me think of my favourite author Terry Pratchett and his monk Lu Tze who tends the Bonsai Mountains in the monastery garden, perfect miniature mountains with lakes, waterfalls, flora and fauna xx

It's the Suiseki zone!

The big first rock would look good with a spruce on top resembling a cliff

Nice Chignon Nigel!

I love your rocks. Fant find rocks like that Around here. Especially like the tpose one. So cool!

Giving birth to little Bab. Cheers mate

Nice video. Yes with the stones: if you have the choice, you are spoiled for choice :-) Greetings also to "mother duck" Laura.

Thought it was gonna be a full 30 mins of rock showcase ahah ! They are really nice rocks though i don't have them like that near where I look, looks like they were made by a professional prop artist! But al natural :) Looking good!

I just started a micro mimosa over rock planting after you started showing all your rocks. I got jealous!

The half of Canada is on that table. Hahaha. Now i know why the Canadian lakes are so big.

Grass may be my limit i Will look at all plants but Looking at Grass grow may be my limit

Yo tan bien tengo mis paisajes en miniatura y se ven geniales.....👍👍

Amazing rock collection! I'd love to get some to scape a large aquarium. Did you find them at a nursery or wild collected?

Salutations to Lady Laura's Quackers!

do it video on your wiping willow please. thank you.

Nigel I just followed your cherry chi link and I need you to translate for me🤣

Hey Nigel I love the rock planting I hope there is enough room for them to grow. The paint job on that pot is fantastic. How did you do it is there a video? "I've got a rock full of benches" oops 😅.

@3:25 Nice rock.. Also like the pyramid which looks like it has the all seeing eye and the fallen pillar lookn rock..(had them next to each other in 1st vid), Im thinkn those 3 willl look good as an Indiana Jones fallen temple theme...

I think the rocks lay down the way they were look like the giant causeway in Ireland ...

Hi Nigel, do viewing stones work in the same manor as an accent plant?

Yaaaas!

Yessss....

I have a question for Nigel or anyone else.. I pruned my 2 yr old Japanese maple today. I live in Australia and we've had really weird weather. most plants are waking up early. The maple had lost its leaves for a cpl of weeks, and buds are just beginning to maybe show signs of starting to swell. So I thought it was the perfect time to prune. But it started bleeding straight away. I don't have any cut paste, so I tried putting acrylic paint on it (I know this isn't conventional but mum does it on normal trees and it's been fine and I didn't have anything else). But the paint won't dry as it's bleeding too much. So I tried blu-tack and will see what happens. I had a hard time getting it to stick. Any suggestions on anything else I can use? I can't get to the store till Saturday. And any suggestions what I might have done wrong, and if the tree will live? Any suggestions or help would be so much appreciated!

i might have missed that - where did these rocks come from?

Haven't seen your willows lately. Could you do an update on them? Thanks

I love how your eyeholes gravitate towards what your brain already knows is perfect. My brain does the same thing.

Trust the brain! While I can't say any of mine are near as nice as yours are, as long as you follow your brain you will end up with something at least pleasing to you if no one else. As soon as I can move my plants out in spring, please do rate my bonsai! I'd really like to hear what you would do with them.

Bagus

One question: those rocks will last a long time. Those cracks will end breaking the rock in pieces?

One of the rock looks alike rhino horn 😂😂

Can we see an update on the mini ficus religiosa?

Like how you shout out other channels

How's the First Nations' and Community Garden doing this summer?

Hi Nigel, which David where you talking about?

Could aquascaping be in your future?