Bonsai Demonstration – A garden juniper becomes a bonsai tree – Part 1

btw Graham, you gotta release a mixtape. The music is great.

can someone please tell me how to get deadwood in the bonsai

Nice looking tree good video but please learn to say foliage properly.

love all your stuff can you tell me what u use to carve your bonsai i have a dremel but it is only 4 small stuff have 120 year old bouganvillea bout 3 foot tall 600 mm across need some major work can u help it weighs bout 200 kg

Skvelá práca jin a shari super…

once you expose the trunk line (or look at it through the branches) you’re aiming for the heaviest branch to be about a third of the way up the trunk, then getting gradually more delicate towards the apex. sometimes you do mess it up, but exposing the best branches that work with the trunk line is a good approach, then you can wire the branches to be more graceful.

wow, really enjoying your videos, love the music as well. i have a juniper hedge in my backgarden and its funny to see a juniper bonsai, ive never seen one before but im so used to seeing the juniper leaves from the hedge when we cut it. if i was dealing with a bonsai this size i would be so worried that im going to mess it up, but you seem to know exactly what your doing – when you start out do you imagine the bonsai as a blank canvas and get your own image of what you want it to be?

Hello,
is this a Sabina (blue forest) Juniper variety because I cannot quite make out the variety your saying, not your fault I don’t think, it’s my cheap and nasty ear phones. Any idea how old it is?
Thanks for another great video

Beautiful work, Graham. My only complaint is that the deadwood almost completely obscures the tree’s lifeline. It seems that you just see a small peek at the lifeline in the tachiagari.