Cheers s Corin. The pot has provided me with loads of inspiration and I've enjoyed a couple of brilliant days with my dad out in the garden putting this together, so thanks for that mate much appreciated!

@@TonysBonsai no prob at all take care

Not wrong buddy I like the warm days and drizzly nights

@@TonysBonsai I've got some planks of wood that I've been trying to dry out so I can sand and paint them for making a bonsai bench. Nowhere to store them inside so I just need a few sunny days so I can dry them and get to work.... I've been waiting weeks....

, yeah he was sounding pretty smooth.compared to me. My sound is a little more hostile 😂😂

@@TonysBonsai what a word to land on 🤣😆🤣😆

He's definitely a sound bloke, and he's got great taste in pot's too. That blue glaze is stunning

Cheers Scott. It sounds like your musical tastes are as eclectic as mine mate. I enjoy most types of music except 90s soft rock I just can't take that whining

Cheers mate. It takes more than a bit of cancer to stop me 😎

It's a pleasure mate, and so long as I'm able I'm in the mood for Bonsai!

Cheers John. That's the plan mate 🙂

Thanks Martina. The blue colour in that glaze is just beautiful next to the tones of the rock and hopefully the green Will add a nice amount of contrast

Cheers buddy. I'm loving how much my family have embraced bonsai. They've all learnt loads about pruning etc but none more than my dad. He's really soaked the information up and he's ready to take many of my trees forward now that's for sure

You are lucky to have a dad like this, very nice tony

Hi Joe. I think you're right about the big rock. Given a few years I believe that it could become a real showstopper of a composition

Thank you. I'm now trying to reduce the drugs to help with side effects, but hopefully I can keep cracking on right into the summer 🌞

Yeah they're thriving in the muck so I wanted to encourage others to perhaps have a go themselves knowing that it is a decent technique

Thanks, it's always a pleasure

Cheers Dave. I'm getting more and more into these landscapes

,😂 a good apprentice needs to earn their gloves mate 😂😂

🤣🤣 luckily it's a title I only earned via the t-shirt 🤣 I prefer bonsai bodger!

Thanks Stevie. Glad you're enjoying them, and I'm definitely enjoying filming them too

Thanks Steve. I'm thinking autumn 2026 for this one to begin shining mate

Definitely inspired by bonsaify this one. I just love his zelkova forest

@@TonysBonsai I love watching his videos too, especially the ones about shohin.

I'm still going Taco. Just a bit of an update really on what's going on for me and how I'm still managing to get content out as people have been wondering, and as you say, the answer is with the use of some incredibly strong drugs 🤣

Alright Xav. Yeah root over rock has so many different options for success and failure. I'm really looking forward 😀 to checking out an eastern hemlock that I wrapped in sphagnum moss on the rock.I suspect it's going to be a failure long term in term of adherence , but it's definitely going to be interesting taking a peek I'll add a link later to the muck recipe, but it's basically just Equal Parta damp coco coir, wellchopped moss and clay. Easy peasy and really nice to work with. It makes this kind of project really easy to put together on your own, and for anyone like us who are lucky enough to have Access to lots of young material it's a great way to use it instead of just making clump-style and little groups

@@TonysBonsai It definitely lends itself to the younger material. What was the clay you used again...I'm beng lazy I know.

Yeah it will be really interesting for people to follow all the various root over rock techniques over the coming years. Ultimately the proof will be visible in 4-6 years time when the fine exposed root structures are finally on display. Until then it's really just a waiting game. I'd love to see Ryan' Niels junipers and peter warrens beech tree, but they pretty much never seem to do updates. My gut feeling is that the reason they use muck in Japan is because it's the most effective method, in my mind it just makes sense using a technique that allows us to individually place roots into position as opposed to trying to just get a bunch of roots to stick to the side of a rock. Even if they eventually do, I wonder if the look will be more like the looping alien roots that are so common? It's a fascinating subject to me and I'm always surprised at how few great root over rock compositions we see. Good ones are really rare from what I see.

Yeah it was a lovely gesture I agree, and I just love the blue glaze

Cheers Graham. More muck the better for a project like this one

@@TonysBonsai keep going Tony.. You are amazing.. God bless you

You should do!. With your practical skills you'll find it a piece of cake mate

@@TonysBonsai 👍

Good idea being patient. The juniper will definitely appreciate it

I just use my normal Bonsai soil mix, but I like to use a deepish pot to avoid overly wet soil rotting the cuttings.

Thanks, I just love the use of the rocks in Bonsai

Thanks Raymond. I'm looking forward to finishing this one now hopefully making the rock into more of a feature within the composition

@@TonysBonsai sounds good Tony

Cheers mate

@@TonysBonsai welcome mate☝🖐 always watching here from Edinburgh 🇬🇧 👍

Keep enjoying it Jason that's what it's all about

@@TonysBonsai yes it is

Our chances have been steadily going downhill since 1988when I faced Andrew Fllintof in schoolboy trials, 🤣 I scored 4 runs in 4 balls too. Too! To be fair they were all by's but I sang the willow with style nonetheless 🤣

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And I humbly take back my words, what a fight back and win for England! Congratulations!!

Alright Chris, he's called John. If we get a nice day I'll try to get my brother to lift the rock up onto the turntable for a better view as it does need a trim anyway and it looks fantastic from the proper side view

@@TonysBonsai cheers Tony! Big John is it! 💪 that would be aswome. It looks heavy?

You picked out some of my favourites there Scott. Sounds like we've both got similar pretty diverse musical tates based on good solid writing Regarding the yew. They can be pretty temperamental. How's it done this year? And what is the foliage looking like at the moment?

Hi Kurt. My dad made this muck up. It's equal parts finely chopped sphagnum moss, Coco coir and clay. Seeems to work really nicely

@@TonysBonsai Thanks. I'll try it.

yep Sperling Keramik

That's the one!

Thanks Mendis. It's an absolute pleasure. In glad you're enjoying the videos