Everything About Bonsai Trees
Monday, December 25, 2006,11:59 AM
Bonsai tourism
Bonsai collections are open for public viewing in many cities around the world. For example:
* Australia: Admission is free at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, where the Bonsai House displays hundreds of trees, some 80 years old.
* Belgium: The Belgian Bonsai Museum hosted by the Bonsai Centre Gingko at Laarne organizes international competitions and workshops.
* Canada: The Montreal Botanical Garden has an amazing indoor bonsai facility that can be viewed year round.
* China: View the bonsai at the Botanical Gardens in Beijing, Shanghai and Suzhou.
* Germany: The Grugapark in Essen has a permanent bonsai exhibition.
* Indonesia: Pluit Bonsai Centre in Jakarta is an enormous sales and trading centre for growers and collectors.
* Italy: The firm Crespi Bonsai hosts an international competition, the Crespi Cup, every year at the Bonsai Museum in Milan.
* Japan: Near Tokyo, the city of Omiya has an artisanal village of bonsai growers and stylists grow and maintain their stock. In Omiya Bonsai Village, more than a half dozen large bonsai nurseries allow visitors to view trees most days during growing season. By one estimate, more than 10,000 trees of world-class quality can be seen in a single day.
* Singapore: Thousands on bonsai are on display at the Chinese and Japanese Gardens on two islands in Jurong Lake.
* South Korea: The world's largest bonsai garden, Bunjae Artpia, is a major tourist attraction on Cheju Island; nearly 2,000 trees are on display.
* Spain: Visitors to Marbella can enjoy the collection at the Museo de Bonsai.
* United Kingdom: The Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Glasshouses hosts a rotating collection of about 25 trees at a time, and occasionally gives bonsai care workshops.
* United States: The National Arboretum in Washington, DC has an impressive collection of trees, some of them gifts from the Nation of Japan. The Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts is home to the Larz Anderson Bonsai Collection. On the West Coast: the Weyerhaeuser Corporation maintains a collection open to the public at its headquarters near Seattle, and in Southern California the Huntington Library and Gardens in San Marino has a fine collection.
* Australia: Admission is free at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, where the Bonsai House displays hundreds of trees, some 80 years old.
* Belgium: The Belgian Bonsai Museum hosted by the Bonsai Centre Gingko at Laarne organizes international competitions and workshops.
* Canada: The Montreal Botanical Garden has an amazing indoor bonsai facility that can be viewed year round.
* China: View the bonsai at the Botanical Gardens in Beijing, Shanghai and Suzhou.
* Germany: The Grugapark in Essen has a permanent bonsai exhibition.
* Indonesia: Pluit Bonsai Centre in Jakarta is an enormous sales and trading centre for growers and collectors.
* Italy: The firm Crespi Bonsai hosts an international competition, the Crespi Cup, every year at the Bonsai Museum in Milan.
* Japan: Near Tokyo, the city of Omiya has an artisanal village of bonsai growers and stylists grow and maintain their stock. In Omiya Bonsai Village, more than a half dozen large bonsai nurseries allow visitors to view trees most days during growing season. By one estimate, more than 10,000 trees of world-class quality can be seen in a single day.
* Singapore: Thousands on bonsai are on display at the Chinese and Japanese Gardens on two islands in Jurong Lake.
* South Korea: The world's largest bonsai garden, Bunjae Artpia, is a major tourist attraction on Cheju Island; nearly 2,000 trees are on display.
* Spain: Visitors to Marbella can enjoy the collection at the Museo de Bonsai.
* United Kingdom: The Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Glasshouses hosts a rotating collection of about 25 trees at a time, and occasionally gives bonsai care workshops.
* United States: The National Arboretum in Washington, DC has an impressive collection of trees, some of them gifts from the Nation of Japan. The Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts is home to the Larz Anderson Bonsai Collection. On the West Coast: the Weyerhaeuser Corporation maintains a collection open to the public at its headquarters near Seattle, and in Southern California the Huntington Library and Gardens in San Marino has a fine collection.
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