I dont think your voice is boring Peter. It's actually one of the things that attracted me to your channel in the first place. So please dont change it Peter! Lol

You speak nothing but wisdom. Your words are gold. I come here for life lessons and also bonsais.

We love when you talk in your videos, and don't see it as rambling. Your accent is very understandable and not harsh. Good work on the tree!

I'm always surprised that you think your speaking or silence may be out of place. To the contrary you are a master teacher and express flawlessly. I'm American by the way.

Hope you are all having a relaxing Sunday morning.

You "improvised" a damaged maid into a beautiful & wise old crone of the forest . . . Beautiful improvisation! This tree, now, looks more like it did at the Chelsea Flower Show . . . it's an award winning tree still. Even better if we can imagine how lovely it becomes when the gin work is completed. Am thinking it is more valuable now than ever before. We love your talk; is not boring; is necessary to speak the improv. Thank you,! This is a wonderful show.

My fiancé laughs when she asks what I watch on you tube for so long and I say “MY SENSEI” great video

Oh no master Chan..do not stop speaking..actually I was struggling with my spoken English a bit and after listening to you I made huge improvements..slow and clear. Very eloquent. We learn more than about bonsai. Thanks.

Loved the pic of you at the flower show all those years ago, Peter 😊

I don't know anything about bonsai. Nor am I planning to make or buy one. I'm just here to enjoy your voice and chill vibe. Calms me down.

Accents are the spice of language; if I moved to another country I could only hope mine would be as pleasant as yours

As lovely as the original was, this is even more interesting! The mind and hands of the Master. Wonderful.. Please do not change your teaching style.

Your voice is incredibly soothing and relaxing, making for an optimal learning environment in my opinion! Thanks for staying true to yourself and always speaking your mind.

Lovely video, definitely learning a lot. He's like the David Attenborough of bonsai. Got a few bonsai now and recently got two Japanese Maples. Also can we take a moment to appreciate how awesome this guys shirt is 🏝

Your English is perfectly understood. Thank you for the wonderful videos.

The state that tree was in when it came back to you was heart-breaking. You performed a miracle on that tree. you truly are a master and I very much enjoy watching you perform your magic. That is a beautiful "baby" picture of the tree in the show but now it is regal (even with its near disaster). Thank you for your time.

In 1994 both this tree and Peter had more foliage on them ) Hope this tree buds back and gets a lot more refined and well shaped

I’m not sure why but this particular tree just made me realize how fractal bonsai are in their design.

Very cool to see the old pictures! Of both the tree and you sir. :)

We love it when you ramble Peter! Tell us a story

You are the best in this field l love the way how you reach your experians to others very easily thank you

I especially needed this lesson. Thank you for your guidance and instruction. The tree turned out beautifully. I know your client was very happy.

Was sad at first 😰 but turned out to be better, such an expensive beauty it is. Bravo Peter. This video made me jumped out to my back garden to relocate my small shohin cryptomeria😂..thx for sharing and can't wait for the next one. Cheers

Your channel is extremely relaxing. Your overall attitude and demeanor are of a wise and patient teacher who presents us, the students, with options - not rules - and encourages us to learn through experimentation. Bonsai is something I always wanted to try, but somehow seemed so out of reach. I have been binging on your channel and thanks to you, I am in the process of creating my first bonsai. Congratulations on the awesome channel and thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Hello Peter, it's true that sometimes I don't feel like watching all the tedious bits of pruning, but if I get a bit bored of it I can just skip ahead and it's no big deal. On larger or more unique projects like this one it can be really fun to follow along for the whole process. You are not wasting your viewers' time, you are giving us the option to spend the amount of time watching that we prefer.

Peter, when customer bring in the trees and get a rework, they for sure will be happy with the result - it's like buying art from a famous painter. Thanks for all the great videos!

Please be my life coach your steadfast and bold approach to everything is refreshing

I very much like seeing you do the entire process. I don’t feel it is a waste of my time at all. Watching you create these works of art brings peace to me during this difficult pandemic! 🥰

As you work you drop tons of knowledge verbally and by showing how to do things. Don’t change that, ramble away! It makes us better and your videos amazing! I’ve been struggling to figure out the concept of creating pads during lock down using books and videos...not as easy lol but at 18:59 in the video the angle and your commentary up to that point finally made it click! P.S. used your moss trick on some of my orchids and I haven’t seen such explosive growth so quickly from them especially because i live in New England, USA...but now that I have your trick up my sleeve I’m much more comfortable buying orchids that look less optimal #PeterChanForTheWin

Sir Heron I just bought my first Bonsai 😀 A Japanese Black Pine

I am a novice who is gaining a wealth of knowledge from you.Your passion is infectious!

You are making something beautiful again. I notice you are apologizing to us for not talking or talking too much. Don't do that please. You are a pure teacher. You taught me a lot.DON'T APOLOGIZE.... YOU ARE A VRRY GOOG TEACHER

I love your proper tree banter today, your work is always well reasoned and this episode is some first class stuff... Many thanks, Peter!

Who doesn't love a demonstrational lecture? Thank and love you Peter!

listening to you talk to me is the best part of your videos.you are not boring at all...it seems we all agree...

California in a heatwave led me to be the first viewer, how fortuitous!!! Lovely cryptomeria!

I’m a beginner bonsai propagator . I’ve watched numerous hours of your videos . I’m encouraged by your tips & pointings because now , I can prune and shape a tree without feeling guilty.

Thank you very much for all the beautiful videos. I’m excited every time you upload a new video. I appreciate your knowledge

I enjoy very much listening to what you call your rambling boring talk. I don’t find it boring at all. I learn so much by watching and listening to your very practical and tried methods! Thank you for these videos!😄🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

I wonder if anyone else feels that the tree in its present stage looks far more interesting and characterful than back in 1984? I have to say this is one great video. Thank you so much!

The parrots 🦜 in your shirt seem to be celebrating the wonderful work you have done to this beautiful bonsai. Wow, thank you for sharing your treasures.

I like the very casual style No editing just the trees and talking It gives you the feeling like you are actually there

Never be self conscious about your voice or your accent. You have a beautiful speaking voice and I love listening to you. I’d listen for hours. So please keep talking and never worry that you’re boring us. Make those long videos!

I think watching a bonsai master at work is a huge privilege we have thanks to the internet ^^ and especially that he is explaining what he is doing :) Thank you! I like the trunk visible better side more too ;)

As an amateur bonsai enthusiast your videos are invaluable. Maintenance, repotting, and pruning videos like the ones you produce along with your commentary have helped me tremendously. Thank you and please continue to do what you do.

I have enjoyed your long format videos during this challenge. You are a wonderful teacher

Peter your videos, thoughts and teachings are always both interesting and valuable. Thank you.

I've enjoyed every video I've watched thus far, I've learned so much just in the past six months from your years of wisdom and all for free, wish I could get a tree from your nursery in the US but I know that's impossible, but still a dream. My wife and I love to hear your voice, we agree that's it's very soothing with tone and content.

I put on these videos not just to learn about bonsai, but to listen to the calming chat. You could make great calming podcasts and speak nothing but words of gold, valuable wisdom!

I love these videos and you are teaching me so much! Your voice and accent are perfectly understandable and I enjoy your speaking style, which doesn't detract from my ability to not only listen, but watch what you are doing. Thank you!!

Greetings from Canada!!! Discovering your channel rekindled my initial Bonsai interest in my early twenties and now 30+ years later, I'm yet again facinated by it! I thoroughly enjoyed this video.....There is hope of salvaging a neglected priced specimen in your expertise hands with your imparting widsom of 'let's see what does the Bonsai branches reveal' after the tidy-up and how best to work in keeping to the client's preferenced style. You've inspired me so much that I picked up a Juniper Nana from a local garden centre today.....Thank you again for all your inspirational videos! .

Watching your videos is never a waste of time Peter. I have watched them all. Many of them multiple times because I find that when I go back to rewatch I understand more. I am hoping to visit the nursery for a workshop and a little bit of birthday shopping much to my daughters jealousy as she is also a huge fan. To use her words you are an absolute legend. Thank you

🇬🇧 Hi from UK 🇬🇧 👍💚💚👍 Brilliant information yet again from the true Bonsai Master. 🌲🌴🌳🎄🌱🌿🎄🍁🌲🌱🌴 And what a voice, I love the 'slightly Indian-ised' English accent...!! Anything he says is so calming & soothing...... 🎵 🇬🇧 Best wishes from UK 🇬🇧

I too thought you may have to remove the lower branches with the resulting look of a California Redwood. Amazed at how just a cleaning and trimming the pads to allow air flow and this tree transformed into this stately gentleman! Please keep talking to yourself in these videos, we are learning not only about what you're teaching but the how's and why and how your problem solving as you work. Bless you for sharing your priceless knowledge and life experiences.

Awesome work on the tree. I can listen to you speak all day, your voice is very relaxing. Love the shirt also

I can’t believe my good fortune in being able to listen and watch how to develop a bonsai in such detail. Love all your chat it made me feel as if I was there with you working. I am now all inspired and looking forward to a session of tidying up my own tomorrow. So very many thanks for sharing your knowledge with us all.

They just keep getting better! Take my time Peter! I love it!

Your voice is definitely not boring!! It is calming and enjoyable. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom. 👵🏻❤️

never a waste of time to watch every bit of your process. thank you for showing everything.

My bonsai studies started same time with the corona virus. Time (studies) with you has been therapeutic and I’ve learned a lot. There’s hope with humankind! Peter, thank you.

Thank you for another great video Peter, you've kept me engaged throughout the lock down, and I agree with your teacher's comment that you should keep your accent, I love it!! Well wishes from South Africa

Please don't apologise for your rambling, your wisdom and guidance is a highlight to my day. Talk away.

I could listen to you talk all day!

I enjoy anything you want to talk about. When you talk about what you’re doing I enjoy that. When you talk about stories or your past history I enjoy that. I think you have to recognize however weird it might be for you, that we are all watching this because we enjoy Peter Chan. You’re a unique and fascinating person

I don't think your voice is boring, I really like it! And what you are telling us isn't boring either! Thank you :-)

Peter, I know this video is two years old so you may never read this, but it takes most people many years to reach the point where you are, the point where they feel comfortable cutting away at trees without thinking (and it probably took you some time to reach that level as well), especially when they are not their trees! This sort of relationship usually takes time to establish a level of comfort between the boss and the consultant. It feels like you have some of that trust now with Josh and some of your other students. You can trust them to pot, wire, prune, water, etc. So you don't have to do absolutely every little task yourself, right? 😉

Your voice and your videos are the best ASMR to me! Please don't change your style of presenting.

Thank you for your time Peter. Yours is just as important if not more. Yet you humbly spend it passing knowledge, which you may view as redundant or insignificant. Which I can understand given your years of growing in this art. Me on the other hand see it as a miner who has struck gold. So again thank you for your simple un mysterious approach. Oh and I'm a fast trimmer/pruner. Sometimes a bit too fast I suppose. 😊

Your voice and the things you talk about are anything but boring, your voice and diction are so clear and very pleasant to listen to. I love to watch you work and listen to you talk and I love that you show a process in it's entirety. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge.

I gladly spend my precious time watching these videos.

Thanks for sharing.

Your voice, overall vision & attitude of the world is about as pleasant as any I have ever seen. Not sure I’d have ever become so obsessed with bonsai had I not stumbled upon your channel. You are of my favorite artisans on the internet.

Your voice is so smooth and peaceful. I like listening as I watch you work. And you put so much love and excitement into restoring this poor tree!

Glorious. I appreciate you finding the older picture for us to compare. Lovely lessons in tidying. Thank-you.

Hi Mr. Chan - thank you for your videos; your instruction, expressions, and invaluable wisdom in every regard of bonsai. I have been deeply interested in the art for most of my 31 years of life, but have only just begun these past two weeks pouring into my thirst for bonsai knowledge. I have spent many hours with your videos and others' on while washing dishes, tidying my house, or working from home. In my humble opinion, your vocalised thoughts and feelings during your videos are of immeasurable worth. We can all read about bonsai history and technique, but the way you are teaching enthusiasts of all experience levels through your speech during these demonstrations is, I think, the perfect way to learn. Many other videos on KZfaq have a great deal of production put into them, and though the presenters are often very experienced, there is a quality about them lacking. The art is such a connected experience, and though I never doubt how passionate those individuals are about bonsai, it feels like a much more wholesome lesson to hear your unscripted thoughts about your process, experience, and techniques. This is what you can't read about. So thank you - I would love to, someday for myself, be able to come anywhere near the passion you have for bonsai. This all being said, the other day I found a couple of bonsai books for sale, which completely appealed to me and my love of books and learning, so I bought them. In a wonderfully serendipitous way, one of them was your "Create Your Own Bonsai With Everyday Garden Plants" from 1989 (the year I was born) in perfect condition. This book is brilliant, and so perfectly encapsulates your fantastic approach to the art. I am a huge fan of how you describe approaching bonsai from a no-nonsense perspective, spending less money and connecting with the art through ways that many purists may feel are blasphemous. The examples of the neglected then transformed garden shop plants I think is the perfect guide to what the art could and should be about. So again, thank you, from a brand new but life-long fan.

I love watching you trim that amazing tree. I bought my house and it has a Japan style garden, it was watching your videos that I realised that the overgrown shrubs were bonsai trees. I keep learning from you how to look after them. Thank you

Blur your eyes and it becomes a venerable old redwood. I love it.

Sir, what you are doing and the way you speak is perfect. Just keep being yourself.

cryptomeria are the species that give me the most 'japan'-vibes, way more than japanese maples or shimpaku junipers i guess hinoki cypress and white pines come close to it, too but not quite ^.^ they just look so amazing when done well. great job, peter :)

Honestly that sounds like a great job! Just refining customer trees all day? Yes please! Haha let me get to that stage 😊

Beautiful “Crytomeria Bonsai”, learned a whole bunch from Peter Chan, but today in particular with his “Ficus Indoor Bonsai”. I’m working with a group of different kinds of of “Elastica Rubber Trees” planted in group of contrasting colors. When Ficus Rubber Trees are happy, they really perform, thankyou Mr. Chan.

It’s great to watch you do your work, it is ashamed that they won’t pay attention to such an old tree

Wonderful job, I enjoy every word you have said, not boring at all, just lots of wisdom and fun. Thank you for sharing your knowledge

Very handsome. I love listening to you and sometimes I have you talking in the background while I work on my bonsai projects. Then I come back and replay. Love it. Thank you.

I really enjoy slowly learning the principles from just watching videos like these. Creating layers, creating spaces, etc. Now I'm trying to figure out what basics to follow for finding faults in the branches/pads.

Every person has their own idea as how they would like their tree to look. That is why you have to respect their wishes. To those who are afraid of pruning and removing old limbs, your trimming to them is not boring, but, educational in every respect. Great tutorial.

As you are working, i can almost hear the little tree taking a deep breath

Listening to your thought process of bonsai and life philosophy is very informative. You are a wise man with a lot to share.

Peter, When we are not listening to your words of wisdom, in your silence, we are enjoying the lovely songs of your birds. WIN! WIN! Magnificent tree!

this makes me remember my late grandmother who was so close to my heart. thank you for teaching me so that i can continue her traditions and be closer to her in this way

No please rambling on I love it!!! It's nothing but music to my ears 🌼 keep up with the videos, you honestly brighten up my day

wanderful fealing when you see that there is a second chance !!!

I understand your frustration that comes with being faster than what the customer is accustomed to.

Peter, your videos are so calming. I love to watch them while I eat a solitary lunch. You make something beautiful that I really need right now. Thank you.

Love the video Peter! Your speaking voice is what drew me to your videos several months ago. Now I've got a few bonsai in training and just built my first display bench. Thank you for inspiring me to begin this journey and for sharing your wealth of knowledge with us all!

Your voice is wonderful! It is very calming. The monologue that you have while you work don't just apply to bonsai. There are tidbits of life lessons in there as well. I find then very helpful in my daily life. Thank you!

I love your accent. My father's family is from Malaysia and carry a similar accent. I think that's the reason I love watching your channel. I've never kept a bonsai but hope to in the future.

love your positive outlook on these old trees! It looks great!

Watching a master is never a waste of time. I love your videos!

Watching this is like watching ASMR for enthusiasts XD The whole pruning and care process is like an art show itself. I'm new to this space and I think it's pretty interesting to hear a master at work.