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Post by coppice on Apr 19, 2011 16:50:41 GMT -5
An arboretum. The odds is if you drove a car into Washington DC you drove past the National Arboretum on NY. Ave. Oh and its free to go look and park there. www.bonsai4me.com/Gallery/GalNatArbRobKempinskiPartOne.htmI will probably miss (again) the spring bonsai auction and trader fair held there in the spring. ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/3247375/images/NVJWsLkJnfi619MwuIqb.png) About the time azalea bloom.
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Post by coppice on Apr 19, 2011 17:08:21 GMT -5
I've never actually been to Arnold Arbotetum (its in MA). It holds the Lars Anderson (an old USain diplomatic corps) collection. Photos of this collection were a center peice for Boston Flower show, for like forever. arboretum.harvard.edu/plants/featured-plants/bonsai/
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2011 21:11:00 GMT -5
The bonsai collection is really awesome. Amazing to read about the Yamaki White Pine and even more amazing that it was donated to the National arboretum.
Indiana University campus has a huge arboretum. My son collected Japanese Maple seed from some of the trees there.
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Post by coppice on Apr 19, 2011 23:04:33 GMT -5
The Bronx Zoo is the site of the Brooklyn Botanic Society's bonsai collection. The old collection was largely stolen and returned to Japan... BBS' gardening pamphlets (the bonsai ones stayed in print for like 50 years) are just about all that remains of the old diplomatic corps collection and trees sent here after the Japanese & Russian war of 1905. www.bbg.org/discover/gallery/graceful_perseverance/
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Post by coppice on Apr 19, 2011 23:17:07 GMT -5
Rusty If Indiana University has a photo gallery of its bonsai collection, I'm using the wrong search words to find it.
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