Winter Pruning My Boxwoods, The Bonsai Zone, Jan 2023

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nice trunk on that boxwood!

Hello from Ukraine,thanks you job

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I do love listening to your thoughts before you cut. Sounds like you have a bit of a cold Nigel. Keep well!

Hey nigey, do you like to take a leaf/ flower etc and press or preserve them for documentation? I always have to have a leaf, stem, flower etc and label them for documentation.

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Can a boxwood be repotted during spring after a major branch cut back? Mine would also need a major root prune during repot. It was a very healthy tree to begin with

Nigel, you cinematography and story telling, in that intro is getting better each time you do it.
You could possibly explore an entire episode devoted to that style.

Beautiful pruning choices for your old oak tree style boxwood. Is there no need to seal cuts on boxwoods? Looks like a great beginning!

There is that thing with boxwoods, that you won't be able to make it grow downward without some wire, by any means! Great species thow. In Mediterranean we have them everywhere.

Always amazing to see trees older than myself hahahaha, very inspiring

Fantastic talk-through of this pruning. This looks well set up for the future forest, Brother. I’m diggin it and feel better prepared for this chore myself!

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Nice work! I remember you showed into a video a 3D printed pot, but I cannot find it. I am interested into making one of them as well.

That main tree is developing very nicely. Thanks for sharing your pruning thought process. It’s going to be fun watching the repotting and initial composition of the forest. Thanks, keep growing

Hi there do box wood produce tiny black berry's, as I've just bought an unnamed bonsai that look very much similar to these lovely specimens.. cheers

Several years ago Cydalima Perspectalis moths plaque ate all my old boxwoods in my garden. I tried to fought it but with no results. There were too much of them... It came suddenly, probably from Asia and there were no birds or any other animals who could ate it.

WHAT AN INTRO!!!

I wish I had known boxwoods dislike getting pruned when I got one last year. I cut it back hard from nursery stock, then pruned it again after a few weeks to get some ramification going (thinking it was like other shrubs). After that, it sat there and sulked for the rest of the season, doing nothing. Its getting through winter okay it seems, but we'll see what happens. Experimenting is how we learn 👍

Nigel, yesterday I pruned my gigantic succulent using principles of your pruning :). It is not meant to be a bonsai, it just got so big it almost tipped over me, and I thought I need to take care of it's structure and balance.

Up close those boxwoods do look like oaks. The pruning scars are convincing as well. Nice trees

Wow somebody call Jay...we got some nice looking carnage here!!

Nigel how do you get your hair to get almost a afro? Twist together

A trunk and a half at the age of 27. Really a cool looking tree. Weeding. A Never Ending Story.

Pruning will bring out some nice growth and vigor on the Boxwoods.

Can you root a thick cutting and make a mini bonsai tree out of it? Just a thought.

Incrível seus vídeos, parece até um seriado de tv a gente fica querendo ver as atualizações das plantas kkk.

are those buxus harlandi??

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Your main tree looks very elegant, like a tree you would see alone in a field. Another forest, exciting!

Nice piece of artwork 👏

Nice work on the boxes!

Really nice looking tree Nigel. So old looking. I wonder if as English oaks they could replicate the long and sometimes flowing oaks that border the drive up to the old mansions. When the designers of the grounds of the old estates first set up their plantings they were thinking and seeing decades or hundreds of years even, into the future, what their designs would grow into. Possibly rather than have the width of the pot to the viewers eye the pot could be orientated to the short width, allowing for the rows of oaks to diminish into the distance. Would the lane be planted from the perspective coming into the estate? Or would you choose the view from the mansion looking down across the gardens and the lane of oaks twisting into the distance? I wonder?

There's some huge, wild boxwoods up the hill, at the old cabin ruins, but i doubt I could collect them, rooted in the pavement as they are, and I don't have permission. There are some in my dad's gardens, planted by my late mother, that I might get some day. She had a couple in pots - one survived, and I have that in my bonsai collection, but the trunk is pretty small.

Wonderful video Nigel! As others have commented, your genius is in your internal monolog, which flows along with the physical actions of the video. Its so educational to have explained WHY you make a cut, why NOT to make a cut, and the consequences of both. No other bonsai videographer does this and I regard you as a teacher of high esteem. I believe that in bonsai, more than other horticultural pursuits, this is SO critical - one wrong cut can ruin several years of training, effort, and patience.
Much like Bob Roberts, the painter, explaining your methods has a meditative quality to the whole experience. Thank you for all your efforts!!

What is the name of your boxwood? I have some cuttings of Green Mountian and Green Velvet that i have in my little greenhouse. May have to bonsai some of them. Yours are great. 27 years may be a little too long for me to get it as nice as yours. lol

So many ideas, thank you! Mirai Live had a demo on a Kingswood last week (or at least, that was when I watched it!) so now I am itching for early spring to get started on my collected hedge that has been in recovery for 18 months and ready to start the journey to mini tree . . .

The orange cat is stalking you Nigel, it has its eyes on you!
The main boxwood looking like a fine deciduous tree!

I’m a big fan of boxwoods. Find them beautiful and unique. Would like to see more videos like this one on your channel. In fact, some of them are able to live for 600 years, it’s shocking me.

I have at least 1 or 2 seedlings of almost any specie accessible to me and despite this is a pretty common one, i don't have bought any boxwood do far because of it's slow growth fame, however as you showed they root easy from cuttings i may "steal" a branch or three from some neighbors

my wife and Bonsai club members disagree. She said size doesn't matter....