Designing an Olive Bonsai tree

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5 жыл бұрын

In this advanced styling we design a stunning Olive Bonsai tree (Olea sylvestris). It was collected in Mallorca, Spain, a few years before this video was shot. The work was done by Rafael Torres and Bjorn Bjorholm, who teaches several online courses on our website:
www.bonsaiempire.com/courses
Topics discussed:
- Preparing the tree and making sure it is very healthy
- Defining the age of the tree
- Cleaning the trunk
- Creating deadwood
- Tools used to create deadwood
- Using fire to enhance the deadwood
- Design Process and branch selection
- Wiring and setting branches
- Cutting back to younger growth
- Designing the apex
- Care (including fertilizer, fungus identification, etc)
- Repotting (at the end of the video)
- Future steps to take
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Spanish version of this movie:
• Diseñando un Olivo Bon...

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@iksarguards 4 жыл бұрын

I live in costal Croatia and we have a lot of twisted little olive trees like this.... thinking of adopting one now

@chrisstarck7967 5 жыл бұрын

The video is a good teacher and helps to understand how to design. Thanks to all involved.

@oscarvidalquist 2 жыл бұрын

amazing

@georgel1055 7 ай бұрын

Olive trees are my favorite bonsai. Excellent job!

@bonsaiempire 7 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

@MasterCommandCEO 3 жыл бұрын

That came out way better than I thought it would! Wow it looks so good!

@savvaspapaloizou2600 5 жыл бұрын

About time we saw a good video on an olive tree.. So much information shared.. Thanks a lot guys.. Keep videos coming...

@1marcelo 5 жыл бұрын

Very nice Chinese juniper

@Coolinereeftank 5 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for a good olive vid and you got the two best guys to do it.

@robijakus6860 4 жыл бұрын

the repotting was the best part of this vid

@manuelcastrou79 5 жыл бұрын

It's amazing how you can design the trees, I hope to one day be able to visit your school !! It would be a great honor to see your work and meet you!! Thanks a lot for sharing this video!

@MatteJz Жыл бұрын

Fantastico🤩🤩🤩

@oussamachaachoui3727 5 жыл бұрын

Great video Great tree Great work Thank you guys

@sationobudi1706 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome design.

@bonsaibuenobyalexb 3 жыл бұрын

Wow.. Amazing outcome.. Master at work.. 👍👍❤️

@alfredgrechbonsailicious4827 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome work and video-ing. Congratulations.

@DeanKellyBonsai 5 жыл бұрын

Great job guys.

@JCBerner 5 жыл бұрын

Great work guys :)

@kohdiak2978 5 жыл бұрын

I love this tree!!!

@anditwasknownas 3 жыл бұрын

Ir you're interested, the tree is a Olea europaea var. sylvestris, it doesn't grow only in Mallorca but for the special climate they have It turns out like this. Amazing btw

@mstringer90 5 жыл бұрын

great video, please do more like these! :)

@user-wd9uj5xn7x 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent !!

@ayan1790 3 жыл бұрын

So Nice

@richardhorger5627 4 жыл бұрын

I just finally realized that this guys helper in all these videos looks like Jeremy Fish. Which is awesome btw.!!!!

@steamjo 3 жыл бұрын

it might be interesting how this tree is looking today.

@giorgiogrlj 2 жыл бұрын

Realy, is it possible?

@colinbenfield9940 5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely amazing tree, the best olive I've ever seen.

@lifenaturehubby 5 жыл бұрын

Very nice. .

@kuncilombokchannel6744 5 жыл бұрын

Goad n elegan bonsai..

@pietrocosentino6636 2 жыл бұрын

also in italy!

@dereksaunders4462 5 жыл бұрын

Bjorn, you bad man!

@thechristofer92 5 жыл бұрын

hi, I was wondering but is it possible to burn the pruning of the branches on purpose to put the sealant?

@HansKaramottoBonsai 4 жыл бұрын

First of all, let me be clear that I have the utmost respect for Rafael en Bjorn as a Bonsai artist and I love there work and videos! But this mighty old Olive creation is an exception to that rule! All that gnarly and ancient-looking deadwood that tell a natural and mighty old Olive story and then those needly straight downwards hanging Spruce like branches...well that is in my humble opinion fare from looking natural, quite the opposite! This remarkable old tree deserves to look like an Olive and not as a needly styled Juniper or Pine tree! We see too much of those as it is in my opinion! Why not style it like it is now but with more gnarly Olive like branches that grow in different directions like leave trees (especially Olives) do in general...only than you can call it (more) natural looking! Now it is styled way too formal looking in comparisons to that stunning deadwood! Hope you guys don't mind me saying all this, but I just had to state my humble opinion?! Cheers, Hans van Meer.

@hargroovy 4 жыл бұрын

I also thought it was odd that he'd cut natural growth and then say it looked more natural that way lol

@SamDoeckeAussiebonsaibloke 3 жыл бұрын

Sad outcome 😒

@whereswalt2716 3 жыл бұрын

"All of your trees especially olive trees" lol

@luccakeimel7697 5 жыл бұрын

mission failed ...the tree looks good in the video !:D

@bered4894 2 жыл бұрын

What‘s the difference between Eisei- En and Bonsai Empire?

@bildahome 5 жыл бұрын

Just put youre hand up if you have a tree like this and this video helped you

@darrenfisherman3838 Жыл бұрын

Try using lead as a weight on the bottom it waste less space because it weighs more

@CillI751 4 жыл бұрын

What kind of olive is this anyone????

@saungbonsaiofficial 3 жыл бұрын

luar biasa

@miechaeldarohim9837 Жыл бұрын

Oooh. Btful 3... how meny price..Mr bonsainer

@theasiangod8559 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine you carrying this and suddenly dropping it without purpose and the tree breaking.

@arnie0199 3 жыл бұрын

Why you gotta give me nightmares man?! jk

@ovalo. 5 жыл бұрын

Cool! Ps: I’m From Brazil :)

@bildahome 5 жыл бұрын

Brazil does not count

@ricklandaubonsai5506 5 жыл бұрын

It seems that every little branch that is cut could be in its own a superb little mame or shohin size bonsai. anybody know if Olea Sylvestris can be rooted??

@henriqueleal1909 5 жыл бұрын

The cuttings root very easily in all types of Olive.

@ricklandaubonsai5506 5 жыл бұрын

@@henriqueleal1909 interesting

@robijakus6860 4 жыл бұрын

what do you do with the bits of wire that you cut off? throwing them away seems mega expensive but i really dun think you would cast things out of it or anything

@Heritagius 3 жыл бұрын

If it's copper wire, you can't re-use it, without maximo effort. It's too hard once bent. I agree with you though - if it's aluminium and still a usable length, then keep it if you can. I keep them in small jars, useful for wiring small branches or making mesh holders. Plus if you're giving up smoking you can sit and slowly straighten them by hand while watching TV or bonsai videos (PS, it works for the giving up smoking :-)

@robijakus6860 3 жыл бұрын

@@Heritagius aluminium wire is also great cuz you can just cast whatever from it at home or at least i can xĐ

@riemer0815 5 жыл бұрын

So ein tolles Material und so eine uninspirierte Standardgestaltung...das tut weh!

@stateniland 5 жыл бұрын

Hello.. question.. My Juniper (I just transferred to a smaller pot) is beginning to turn brown... Am I over or under watering, it's outside..not harsh sunlight.. I spray and water daily.. water drains easily..? HELP.. ty Joe

@richardhorger5627 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe try just watering and hold off on the spraying. I read that only a few species of tree benefit from having their foliage sprayed. Not sure about junipers though.

@George-Mylonakis 4 жыл бұрын

I am sure this tree is up from 250 years old ! Not 100 , we have many of them in our mountains here at Crete ! I know one person whom he has many of them for sale , he has many like them in the half size and they are 200 years old !

@anilkumarn6091 5 жыл бұрын

Selection of the pot and position of repot needs to be improved

@andrewtrumbley5462 5 жыл бұрын

I wish they would have made it just slightly less horizontal when they repotted it. It is a beautiful tree though.

@alexverdigris9939 4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that. Also, that pot is too small for that tree.

@spamsquirrel 5 жыл бұрын

I'm like "They could have air layered those bigger ones they cut off!!" LOL

@BonsaiTVphungvanthi 5 жыл бұрын

I think the pot is little small .It's a nice Olive bonsai tree.THatnks for share

@valipantea 5 жыл бұрын

so how do you get a 100 years old tree?

@gutzboy1 3 жыл бұрын

You wait a hundred years. Lol They must have known the history of that particular tree or made an educated guess. Even though I couldn't resist joking, you asked a very good question.

@marciptv9436 4 жыл бұрын

The tree is over 100 years old, why not take one more year and air layered those big branches instead of cutting them off?

@bered4894 2 жыл бұрын

0:47 what is that tube?

@DeadBeatLoser69 10 ай бұрын

That's a piece of rubber they put on the anchor wire so it doesn't bite in

@eribachtiar7842 3 жыл бұрын

3:26

@andremarais2706 Жыл бұрын

Bjorn "I jin every effing thing" Bjornholm. Charcoal merchant who destroys the Yamadori soul of every tree.

@conspiraterry7393 3 жыл бұрын

There's a horse in that tree!

@tuananhbonsai1243 5 жыл бұрын

hello vietnam hello ủng hộ kênh mình nhé

@gregoryh4601 2 жыл бұрын

Bjorn hate to be a Pain. Why would you not Airlayer the Branch that going away from the Main Trunk to help the Roots and Make a Second Tree. With all that Movement of those Branches you would Have a awesome Second Tree. But to the Boss.

@DeadBeatLoser69 10 ай бұрын

It's very hard to make air layering on such hardwood species especially one that old. Plus, I'm sure he wouldn't want to accidentally spoil the look of the tree.

@pansepot1490 4 жыл бұрын

Is it me or did they make an olive look exactly like a juniper? The tree is beautiful but let’s be honest: all the beauty is due to the work of nature and time. Not sure the style chosen, however excellently executed, suits the species. Personally it makes me cringe.