AusBonsai

WorldOfBonsai series 2, Episode 8 is now online for download at http://www.bonsaifarm.tv .
This episode is contributed by Lingnan Master Lu Zhei Wei.
An insight into this most mysterious bonsai culture.
Cheers
Lindsay

Whoo hoo I was just after something to fill a litle time This will be great I am sure!
Thanks Lindsay!

Thanks Lindsay luv your videos great work

now next time im in melbourne I will have to make a special trip to visit

Archie

Lindsay, just checking out your work for the first time. You should get on free to air T.V..........

It's great to see Aussies supporting the WorldOfBonsai project.Thanks for your kind words.
Australia is moving up and now ranked 11th in our list of user regions.
You can connect with our global bonsai community on facebook (more than 1000 members) including most of the world bonsai leadership group.just click here
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I invite you to connect.
Cheers
Lindsay

gday lindsay

could you tell us what species of tree that the bloke was working on to start with in the lastest video? the branch work is very intricate and the leaves as so small and dense i would love to have one, at first i thought it might have been a carmona microphylla or as they say they are now ehretia rigida? but im not 100% on that??

very interesting how they will have the tree go through different feelings of season through such a short time but i can also understand it, i feel the same way, as i cant grow all deciduous trees, but i can grow some, i still dont get autumn colour and half the time they stay in full leaf, i like to think of my figs that way when i get to defoliate them and see them in a silhouette as being in winter and when they start to shoot that spring is here. in a sense, if ya get what i am saying

jamie

Josh, I made a 13 part Bonsai series for Foxtel in 2000. I think the web is the way of the future for bonsai.
Jamie, Yes its a carmona microphylla. I share your enjoyment of multiplying the seasons.
I think LuZhei Wei was eluding to the taoist ideal of living to 300 years in a round about sort of way. Maybe you can't live to 300 but you may enjoy 250 winters, 250 springs, 250 summers. I'm satisfied with 1 autumn a year. I hope you get some colour this year.
Cheers
Lindsay

cheers lindsay!

i should really try the fukien tea again. my last experience wasnt great, but that was a while ago! as for colour its pretty hard up here in the sub tropics/tropics with deciduous, but it doesnt hurt to try! i just need to find the right ones

I think LuZhei Wei was eluding to the taoist ideal of living to 300 years in a round about sort of way. Maybe you can't live to 300 but you may enjoy 250 winters, 250 springs, 250 summers.

i love this little sentence!

cheers lindsay! keep up the good work

I think that they prosper in high humidity. It was steamy when I filmed this in Guangzhou. You can see the lens getting all steamed up. (may have been brought on by the hot bonsai)
A couple of my friends have made gallant attempts to grow them (carmona microphylla) in Melbourne. The results have been dissapointing. You should fare better in Queensland.
It's amazing how China can be so brash, then you commune with penjing masters and get taken back to another era.
Lu Zhei Wei is true literati.
Cheers
Lindsay

I want to acknowledge Ausbonsai contributor "BOOMY" for the wonderful translation work for this episode. Translation not only requires technical skill but it must be accompanied by creativity to inform the viewer. Nice work Boomy.
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Lindsay

Episode 9 is now online. There's a Japanese maple root over rock creation. Ancient and rare bonsai pots. Extreme lingnan nebari development. Foshan pot making.
Cheers
Lindsay

awesome lindsay! i have been waiting for this one since the last one!!!

will watch it tonight!

Just what I needed tonight Lindsay.
Thanks kindly

Nice Lindsay.

Thanks for the effort. I'll watch them tonight

John

I'm glad that this episode brightened your night Bretts.
The global response on Facebook indicates that this is a very useful, entertaining and informative episode.
Cheers
Lindsay