How to Start Maple & Elm Bonsai from Nursery Trees

Today, I want to show you how easy and fun it is to create your own bonsai from a nursery tree or a garden tree. We will talk about seeing the potential in your tree, designing your bonsai, and making the cuts to create the apex and overall shape.

0:00 Introduction
0:22 How to start your own bonsai
1:39 How I started my elm nursery tree
2:05 Root work on the elm tree
2:53 Design possibilities of the elm bonsai
4:31 How to create the apex
6:15 How to know which branch to keep or cut off
9:21 How to see the potential in your bonsai
11:38 Before & after comparison of the elm
11:56 How I started my Japanese maple
12:20 Cloning bonsai trees
13:45 Exposing the roots
16:41 How to work on the apex
18:06 Cut the next level of branches
19:45 Before & after comparison
20:04 Summary

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