Last fall when I had paid my annual visit to the National Arboretum, one of the things I found fascinating there was their bonsai exhibit. Here you have these 20, 30, 40, 50, even 200+ year old trees…fully mature in appearance…yet only 12” or so tall. Maples, Junipers, Ginko, Elms, Azaleas, Cypresses, you name it. All painstakingly trained and pruned and guided to particular growth patterns. I guess I started becoming interested in bonsai because the growing season is wrapping up and there’s not a whole lot left to enjoy out in the garden. The beauty of bonsai is you can enjoy plants indoors while outside everything is dormant for the year. Anyway, here are some pictures I took from a return trip to the Arboretum two weeks ago.
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