The phenomenal bonsai art of Ryan Neil at Mirai

Thanks, a very interesting video and lots of cool bonsai talk!!!

Fantastic Video David! Thank you for sharing. very enlightening..

"When science starts to becomes the art, that's pretty bad-ass." A gem from this video.

A magical place that I loved going to with my brothers Tom Benda and Thor Holvila to make pots, great video thank you 🙏

How do you dig a tree that's almost a thousand years old knowing 100% without doubt that you will not kill it by digging? Thats my biggest issue with collecting bonsai trees... Seems like a really risky thing to do!!

Just stunning, Thank you for this beautiful video

It's great to hear from Ryan. Some of the questions got really good answers.
Your editing though was so annoying! You could just have really asked him to start explaining again when it was quiet. Or, at the very least, have people wear microphones. It's lovely to feel like I'm there listening but I would actually like to hear what people are saying.

THANKS to David and Nick, such a wonderful adventure, I could have listened this philosophical journey for hour. Gosh!!! I hope Ryan came to see us in Montreal!

Thank you David as always great vid your expertise and commentary . Are always so insightful . After reading the article in the New Yorker . About his apprenticeship . We are so lucky to have Ryan . So willing to share his knowledge . His comments in the vid while talking about the 1000 year old Rocky M Juniper . Say it all better than I could . He is truly next level

I'd love to see you interview Ryan in the future!

I went to buy a permit to dig and the guy was in a bad mood that year. After talking he said some guy from bonsai mirai was using explosives to get trees out and completely wiped out the trees on a large piece of landscape. Not sure if it’s true but it is kinda weird Ryan says he’s collecting as much as possible “to save them” when they’ve been living for hundreds of years and are doing fine when he takes them. Guarantee he’s not digging trees in poor health

As always, lots to be impressed by, lots to think about and lots of motivation to do, or at least try. Thanks David and Ryan.

Excellent

ART ❤️

Really2..penomenal bonsai master👍👍🙏

nice Mr.David and Mr.Ryan 👍👍

33 years doing bonsai and great to see it becoming more popular. Florida has some magnificent bonsai and artist. Thank you David and Ryan for all you do.

What a collection. just awsome how different country'sare talking on this art I hope it never stops

Er it's all down to material what you find. Hate to be rude but just gas talk once you learn the art and principles of bonsai that's it nothing else .practice becomes bonsai once you hit that mark that's it

Thank you for sharing this incredible collection and a snip of the knowledge that belongs with it .

What an absolutely bloody amazing garden he has. Thanks for taking us that journey. Cheers Craig

What an amazing video. Thank you David for sharing!

Quelle belle rencontre! J'ai hâte de Voir Ryan à Montréal

I love that guy!!!!!! He is like the Steve jobs of the Bonsai world! I want to go and shake his hand one day!

Finally you visit big bonsai magician .

I don't like Ryan Neil for certain reasons ...

Ryan is doing REALLY impressive work, looking into what trees native to America are capable of. He’s obviously very knowledgeable, but he’s got such freaking strong opinions... I guess it pays off, his trees are beautiful! But this man never stops talking... this is also a lot of white dude energy... boys showing off, comparing their... “trees”.

thank you sooo much.. verry informative .You and Ryan are legenday ..

Beautifull.Czechoslovakia.

I appreciate Ryan Neil's generosity (genius?) in answering questions. However, as someone new to bonsai, once he started talking, he lost me. Too much 'science' for me. I guess when you have such an elite clientele and charge as much as he does for his work, it needs to sound 'high-minded' and inaccessible to the average soul.

I think he's right to call himself a 'practitioner' of bonsai rather than an artist. He works more from his head than his heart. I read an Architectural Digest interview he did, and even when he waxes 'philosophical,' his words make no sense.

Truth is Beauty, Beauty Truth. That is the art of bonsai. While Ryan Neil suggests that he strives to have all the tools he needs 'to meet the material where its at,' the fact that he hires someone else - a professional collector - to collect for him raises the question how can Mr. Neil know 'where the material is at.'

Maybe knowing where rock comes from is enough (and Ryan Neil seems to know where his collector collects rock from). But a rock is not living matter like a tree is living matter. To know the essence, the truth of the tree you need to know more than where your professional collector collected it from. How can the soul of the tree be laid bare through bonsai if the tree is not observed in its natural habitat, where it lived, where it came alive. If Ryan Neil doesn't collect the tree himself, then how can he have met its Maker?

Bonsai is living art. But hearing Mr. Neil talk about the thought he puts into his work, hearing him talk about his intentions, makes one view his trees as 'products.' They are more like science projects than labors of love.

Insane 😮

Thank you David! As a beginner to bonsai this felt like a tour at a grand museum. The colors were beautiful, old trees stunning & it must h/b pure joy for you, Dan & the others to see in person. 🤩

For some reason when I came across bonsai I never like the traditional bonsai crafting, I like to allow the plant to also do its own thing and we can work together to achieve a look that I may find as natural as possible.
I also have the “do not cut syndrome” 😂.

David. Czechoslovakia has hot existed since 1993

Czechoslovakia doesn't exist for 30 years.

David, I love your work and love it when you visit different nurseries, however, it's hard to hear everyone. I think it would be great if you and your guest(s) had microphones on. Your videos like this are so low that I rely on cc to follow the conversations. Thank you for taking us on your trips.:D

Ryan is the GOAT of North American bonsai IMO. Just dropping knowledge the whole time. Love this guy @bonsaimirai 💯

Amazing 👏

🤯 dude is dropping knowledge

👍

👍 dari Pematangsiantar

Brilliant video. The thing I'd love is for people to stop saying "bone"-sai

Marijuana and bonsie is very similar in that what they eat and training them. I've been groing for 25 years and just starting to get into bonsie and it's awesome.

I want to come down and see his garden it's amazing how those trees grow with manipulation

I'm from the UK and have only been in to Bonsai for about 2 years, and something I always wanted to do and now seen to have time in my mid-50s, I've seen a great bonsai place here in the uk, amazing place, but this has blown my mind, the guys property and he's knowledge for a youngish guy...just amazing, best I have seen.

Listening to Ryan is captivating. His work is very distinctive.

I would’ve liked this guy if I didn’t watch his hbo whatever show or movie where he had to bring the crazy girl breaking his tree like I feel as if it was just for attention in people feeling bad for him just like how people are depicting him doing an internship in Japan with some guy who was so terrible like shut up quit whining some of us wish we still had the opportunity some of us have to take a lot of time in figuring this stuff out ourselves in hopes someone like one tree enough we do to get five seconds of fame and you wanna whine about a girl breaking some tree like sorry you hooked up with her not us

👍👍👏outstanding thanks

Ahhhh what ya lost me what??