Growing & Harvesting Yews for Bonsai
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- čas přidán 13. 05. 2023
- In this video I dig up some yews that have been growing as a hedge for a number of years and pot up ready to create bonsai from.
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Wow, that is so labour intensive! Kudos to the staff for all their hard work preparing those trees, their hard work is bringing so much beauty to the world.
Bonsai is not just labour intensive but there is a long lead time involved in getting your return on investment. Not an easy life !!
This was rather an big job! But it was worth it! The old ones are enormous! loved watching it !
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These will become incredible trees in the future in the right hands. Hard work but truly worth it.
Love watching your work. I am not a natural gardener but you give me hope.
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹peter your voice sounds happy, it makes me happy to, thanks Peter
Big boys big toys and monstrous roots, what a fun back yard-dori 😊😁 day... Thx for sharing Peter... Awesome job👍.
_THANK YOU_ 🙏 😔 🙏
Any video by Dr. Peter Chan, no matter what length, is a masterpiece.
(my left thumb is much better... It is an amazing spring...)
Wow what a great view for future bonsai, hope to see you Peter working these trees in the next years. Thanks for sharing the video.
I am so impressed. You have been doing this for decades, yet you have the enthusiasm of a newcomer.
thats amazing ...looking forward what happens next with them ... your team work hard
If I live close to him and could get a job there I would never get a paycheck the trees are absolutely beautiful that you make
Peter could you please do a video on your resident Robin! I love seeing him help you when repotting the trees!
That Robin which used to follow me must have died. The other robins aren't so friendly.
@@peterchan3100 ahh such a shame. Hopefully one day another will!
I was wondering about him, too. 😔
haha scolding you about the camera conversation. Love your vids. Please be sure to back up all your videos somehow just in case. These are little nuggets of eternal knowledge.
This video is really amaze me, I can't wait to see the upcoming process for the yews. Cheers to you & all your staffs Peter
Thanks Peter 🙏 very interesting to see how you dig up the trees.👍✌️
Enjoyable Video! 😁 " Good grief. . . . . Yewhooo!" hahaha 😘 💚 *thx*
Best off spinning the digger tracks so the blade is at the rear, then it will act as an anchor when lowered, will find it much easier 👍🏼
The nesting season has been very different this year my land borderds have only a quarter amount birds nesting than last year and egg number have dropped to , But ive noticed this happens when the start of the year is rather wet. I will leave it there before i get in trouble with the eco folks , but im pretty sure Peter knows what hes doing ,tbh looks like this was done before nesting . After all this gentleman is a master at and of his craft.
I just finished digging up some stuff from a old landscape using my little digger. Fun bonsai stock.
yes, my beautiful air layered J. Maple from a 35 yr old tree was cut back severely (by me) with no leaves thinking it would grow out. But what you say about leaving some leaves on, "green shoots" is important for it to pull sap up from the roots. Thank you Peter for the clarification. NEVER AGAIN!!
Morning bonsai breakfast clubbers
Guten morgen
Good morning from Florida!
Hi in 2024.
Much better than digging up forests for raw material. I much prefer this Yardadori idea. Good work!
This is sustainable -collecting from the wild is NOT.
Fantastic raw material. That should keep you going for a while!
A very useful tool for you to have at the root trimming stage is a battery powered reciprocating saw, I got a decent one from ALDI. I use it to trim difficult to access roots when removing trees and shrubs. It allows you to quickly cut root balls to size and can be operated in one hand.
happy❤ World Bonsai🌳's Day
Mr Saburo Kato tribute🙇
Nice video Peter, and a great way to get some really nice bonsai stock. I hope in the future you can get Kevin back to carve that one with the massive nebari. I'd love to see what he could do with that one!
Good morning ☕️! Another stellar video! 👏👏👏👍👊😊🙏
Fantastic video! Very informative and inspirational.
Happy World Bonsai Day everyone! 🌴
Thanks for sharing this fun project with us.
Wow. Those will be beautiful in 5 years
So this is the standard procedure to make a Bonsai ? That is crazy, so much work and time overall with double repotting to get the tree to produce thinner roots.. It also amazes me how you guys got 16 of those yews out in just 2 days :O
All of this just makes me value my Bonsai much more
Enough yew cuttings for a life time :-)
Loved this video very much Peter! Thank you!!
"Our digger has 30 years experience"
Ahh, with the help of a nerdy digger and a behemoth machine, several trees are moved!
Would love to see one as formal upright!
From the pic, I thought you were going to plant about 10,000 cuttings! That looks like so much fun to do, and the trees look amazing!
Some very nice bonsai s to come thanks Peter
Impressive operation. I wonder if starting with a continuous trench down each side of the hedge would be a labor saver. A Ditch Witch type trench machine could do it.
Maybe a year before removing the trees would grow new roots closer to the trunk.
Fascinating!
Amazing
impressive project good luck and we will enjoy the process
Thank you, Peter.
Amaizing trees👍
Great project Peter.
Love it.
Thank you for the informative videos.
Nice video. Very informative.
I just got one of those Dawn dish soap ads while watching this. How much you want to bet that they cover those chicks in oil just for the commercial?
Gracias maestro! 🙏
oh my! Peter I thoroughly enjoy watching this progress on digging up the Yews! I am doing the same thing, I have several 8-10 foot tall Yews and some of the trunks are as big around as my arm. I've done air layer cuttings about 3.5 weeks ago and eagerly waiting for them to produce roots. This is inspiring! Are you going to do cuttings on all those cut-offs?
thank yew!
❤ super
Just curious - would it not be better to cut them back hard this year and then give them a few months for the new buds to establish before lifting them out?
We sometimes do that as well but since these Yews have such good roots we didn't feel it was necessary in this instance. If you dig carefully you should be OK doing it in one go.
Livin the dream:)
Algortithm, bless this
Did ya'll really cut all that hedge by hand?
I have questions.
16 bushes/trees how long did that take?
Why not use a more robust tool?
I reduced a 60 foot hedge by a foot/25cm or so in about an hour.
AND
Thank you very much for the tutorial on starting willows.
I have many willow bonsi in my backyard thanks to you.
6:08 hehe.
After watching this video i looked out my front window at my hedge......i am sure my better half won't notice. 😅
heron 60 woodcutting and 60 farming confirmed
such a nice video peter....do you think I could do the same with some green and white oak trees? we were planning to remove them in october, cutting them and putting them in wooden baskets
Peter,when you are choosing young yew trees do you look for multi stem or single stem yew ?
Why not a full chain saw for efficiency?
Full chain saw is a bit too dangerous to use.
Serious Bonsai
At time 21:30 we are going to need a bigger boat!
If that doesn't work out, you can try Growing & Harvesting Bonsai for Ewes. 😂
What you are calling hessian, we call burlap here in the USA. :)
I think a cordless reciprocating saw would be better than that little chainsaw, and easier than loppers.
Reciprocating saws can jarr and shake the tree. They are not as smooth as the small chain saw. We do have both on the nursery.
@@peterchan3100 I was thinking of your employees really. The yews had to cope with the jarring and shaking of the digger!
Can it be rooted easily from cutting?
Peter are you selling the yew trees in 2 years or so?
Now work for the next 1000 years 😅 👍🏻
Peter: You have to leave some green or the tree could die.
Also Peter: *immediately procedes to whack the total crap out of said tree.
I have to say that I'm slightly envious of climate in Britain. It seems that you can grow there virtually any plant from mediterranean to taiga. I live in Finland and here yew is considered impossible to grow in large parts of the country and where it is possible, it is extremely slow growing shrub. And you can only dream about evergreen broadleafs, magnolias, japanese maples etc.
But, all the weather isn't the same in the uk? I live in the North West ,not in the south like Peter, the summers are wayyyyy hotter than up north,,but that applies to most countries, or is Finland different? Do you have the same climate everywhere?
Finland extends way further North than our islands - one third of the country is in the Arctic Circle! On top of that, islands like Great Britain (where I come from) and Zealand (the most populous island in Denmark, where I live) have a different climate. Great Britain is warmed by the gulf stream, still hot from the Atlantic flow, while this washes mainly the Northern coast of Sweden - the Gulf of Bothnia (bounded by Sweden's 'inner' coast and the Southern part of Finland) gets very little benefit, and the largest part of Finland's border is the land border with Russia.
@@nickjohnson710 No, it's the same. In southern Finland the climate is milder than in Lapland. However, temperetature can go down to -25 degrees during winter even in the south. I have visited the UK in England (London) and Scotland. I suppose Scottish weather is harsher than the weather in southern parts of the island, but I would say that growing conditions even there are far better than in the most favourable parts of Finland!
@@BarryNorton Indeed. Finland for the most part is in boreal forest zone and our climate is much more continental compared to oceanic climate in the UK.
Beautiful country though,@@petalaak. It was on my list of possible places to move after Brexit, after spending some time at the border watching bears and wolves!
large trees, but a nice thick acer trident😅
Isn't this plant poisonous? Where can I buy such containers?
Poisonous only if you chew the leaves - these containers are very very expensive to buy. They come from Italy.
Mr. Peter.....can I be your apprentice?...please....
Yes you can
@@peterchan3100 how will i apply mr. Peter?
Hi
Your videos are nice
Could you improve the audio
Need new tool
It's not yamadori. It's more like yardadori...... 🤣
Some vendors like to say yamadori to just field grown trees. Market is full of false yamadori, ready for lots of clients who want trees stolen from nature.
I saw this on a another utube channel that I was watching. It was about toxic trees and plants and it said yew is a very toxic plant to eat.
Taxus baccata (European yew) is a well known poisonous plant. Eating a relatively small quantity of leaves can be fatal for livestock and humans. The toxicity of yew leaves is due to the presence of alkaloids known as taxines, of which taxine B is suspected as being one of the most poisonous.
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Sitting here im only thinking .. peter .. wha a fuck you destroying your hedge for? you dont have nuff trees as is ?
The hedges are grown as a crop.
Surely it’s not a good time of year for this. It’s bird nesting time.
We did check for nests - so dont worry. Besides this section is right next to where we work all the time, so birds dont frequent here.
The video clearly wasn't recorded in the last days. Look at all the bare decidious plants even in the latest part, birds aren't nesting while the trees are bare. There are some Prunus seen flowering all around, that's been a while ago!
Excavator is to small!
A JCB would be too expensive to hire. Besides this machine does the job quite well.
Spent 5 hours digging one up today, this looks just like cheating
That is no bonsai …. It’s a megasai!!
Am I mistaken or wasn't Yew the preferred wood for bow making due to the rapid, long growing shoots? Also, once you had the trees cleaned up why not simply leave them where they are, with established roots, instead of transplanting them? I am sooooo jealous of your nursery! Keep up the great work. Cheers, Dick from Vancouver.
Yes I think yew was favored for bows because of how supple the wood is.
I read that wrong 😂
No offense but i cant stand yews. Every nursery in my area stuffs 10 million of these everywhere trying to sell them
They are the most sought after trees among connoisseurs in the UK. Look at the Kevin Wilson videos that we have made showing him create Yew bonsai.
I've dug up several mature yews at this point to, generally speaking, not so great results. I can't get them to thrive in pots and they seems to grow SO slowly, when they live at all. THAT SAID, I'm sure Chan's will thrive because he's Chan and I'm not.
Yews I find need winter protection when planted in bonsai pots. They can be very tricky to over winter I find.
@@peterchan3100 Good to know. The few that I have have lasted in pots for several years but seem to be declining in health every year.