Designing a Bonsai from a Boxwood Garden Tree

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Hi everyone! Today, we're turning this garden Boxwood tree into a bonsai! We'll go over design options and the process of trimming down the branches and leaves to achieve my bonsai vision.
0:00 Introduction
0:54 Clean up roots
5:45 Analyzing design options
8:17 Tools
8:44 Start with the apex
9:35 Trim redundant branches
13:14 Clean up the apex
17:06 Work on side branches
19:14 Continue refining branches
19:57 Design discussion
21:49 Before & after
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Пікірлер: 48

@joegarland4885 8 ай бұрын

The box is going to be amazing in your hands.

@bonsaiheirloom 8 ай бұрын

Thanks Joe!

@maryweber4176 8 ай бұрын

I love to hear the birds while you create.

@akindofmagick1 8 ай бұрын

Now you’ve got me wanting to dig up my c. 2004 boxwood hedge in front of my bay window!! LOL!!

@bonsaiheirloom 8 ай бұрын

Go for it!

@louismilienou5442 8 күн бұрын

Very nice design

@bonsaiheirloom 7 күн бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

@sagebonsai 8 ай бұрын

I enjoyed watching you working on this magnificent boxwood, and look forward to seeing its progress.

@bonsaiheirloom 8 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

@edmanescurc2823 8 ай бұрын

I'm looking forward to see the next steps of this work! Thanks for sharing your work with us!

@bonsaiheirloom 8 ай бұрын

You bet!

@tylerbellgolf 27 күн бұрын

Just got a green velvet boxwood the other day, getting ready to wire it soon

@bonsaiheirloom 27 күн бұрын

Sounds great, let me know how it goes!

@moglie431 8 ай бұрын

I really wanna see this tree as it leaves back out. Like as it's kinda prime b4 it over grows for the next trim.

@bonsaiheirloom 8 ай бұрын

I will do a progress update on this tree in a few months!

@3did-oy7ec 8 ай бұрын

I'm already looking forward to when you show separate trees in bonsai pots.

@mattscheibel 8 ай бұрын

I have a Boxwood growing in a garden that’s been mostly ignored for 15 years. I’m new to Bonsai and it will be the first tree I dig up. The trunk is wonderful and has great Shari. This video is wonderful motivation. Liked and subscribed. Please do a follow up video regarding potting and aftercare of this tree 😊

@bonsaiheirloom 8 ай бұрын

I will definitely do a progress update on this tree in a few months so please tuned! I am also going to do another video on a smaller boxwood, so please check that out when it comes out soon!

@mattbrennan647 8 ай бұрын

What a beautiful specimen. Thanks, keep growing

@dcharrison 7 ай бұрын

You are awesome! I wish I could be your student. USA

@bonsaiheirloom 7 ай бұрын

You can be a student by watching my videos! If you ever have any questions, please feel free to comment it and I will do my best to answer!

@dayanrodz 8 ай бұрын

this is a beautiful example

@OjaiBonsai 8 ай бұрын

Awesome tree. Great work. Cheers from Ojai California

@judgetoogood1033 8 ай бұрын

Please Dr Chang when you switch tools let us know which tools your using and why and where your cutting. Are you leaving a stub or flush cut? Thank You…>. ❤❤❤

@keefe4484 8 ай бұрын

keep us updated

@bonsaiheirloom 8 ай бұрын

I definitely will!

@massimiliano.giacometti 8 ай бұрын

Thanks as usual for the interesting content. I'm analogously working on a ligustrum having pretty much similar features and getting a lot of satisfaction.

@louismilienou5442 7 ай бұрын

I’m looking forward to your videos louis

@damonjones1291 8 ай бұрын

A Majestic👑 Boxwood.. Looking-forward to following its Journey! 🏆

@bonsaiheirloom 8 ай бұрын

Looking forward to updating you on its journey!

@damonjones1291 8 ай бұрын

@@bonsaiheirloom I was at a Huge Garden recently and saw a "Rainbow Eucalyptus" Tree.. It had a Huge/Beautiful rainbow-colored Trunk.. I'm thinking to find one, or get a Cutting, & grow it out... Have you ever seen one??? Amazing!!😳😍

@greenhawk1592 8 ай бұрын

Great!

@brucedeacon28 8 ай бұрын

👍👌🙂

@judgetoogood1033 8 ай бұрын

What day, month and year did you take this out of the ground and when you pruned this tree. Thank you,….l❤❤❤

@bonsaiheirloom 7 ай бұрын

October 2023!

@Ben-zl6sg 8 ай бұрын

What period of the year was this done ? I’m always confused as when to dig up bonsai material without killing the plant!

@bonsaiheirloom 8 ай бұрын

This was done in the fall in October.

@judgetoogood1033 8 ай бұрын

Are the large pruning shears Falco do they have wire cutters at the base. It is so hard to find good tools. Thank you.

@bonsaiheirloom 8 ай бұрын

Most of my tools are generic brand name. If it works, I will use it! No need to buy tools that are exclusively for bonsai.

@hernandotorres1234 8 ай бұрын

That is a beautiful tree. As a matter of interest do you think that buxus (the extensive root pruning triggered this question) is a species for which propogation is likely to be successful using root cutting techniques?

@bonsaiheirloom 8 ай бұрын

Thanks! I have not tried to propagate boxwood by roots cutting, given it is not a tree that suckers. Suckering is usually a good indication. Cutting is easy with boxwood. Please let us know your experimental result to share with the rest of the BH community., I’d appreciate it!

@davidnewth924 8 ай бұрын

I can’t wait to see how this tree evolves. So informative. Thank you so much for this video Milton.

@bonsaiheirloom 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words!

@louismilienou5442 7 ай бұрын

Love your videos I was wondering about my bonsai mix I’m using potting mix scoria and perlite it seems to work but pls tell me if you have tried it or is it going to be i problem down the line with my trees i have tried lots of potting mixes and i have lost of old trees i don’t want to kill them ps they drained very well thank you

@bonsaiheirloom 7 ай бұрын

Scoria is a lava rock…content may vary depending where you buy them from. If it works for you, great! If it costs you a lot because it is marketing, switch to ordinary lava rock which will work similarly. A mix of scoria and perlite is really no different from hydroponics. Watering has to be precise in watering and fertilizing. I have not grown bonsai in either lava rock or perlite, or just watering. Please share your experience with the BH community so we can learn from your methods!