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Clubs Band Together to Create a Bonsai Garden in Western Canada
By Joan Greenway, Canada, photos courtesy Brian Greenway.
Bonsai clubs on Vancouver Island have partnered with the Horticulture Centre of the Paci c to create the rst Bonsai Garden in Western Canada and the second one in all of Canada. It is used as a display and learning garden.
Visitors are greeted with bonsai at the entrance to the HCP Garden, then have to follow path through the Tanaka Japanese Garden, past a zen garden with more bonsai specimens, to the top of a hill to view a collection of 60 bonsai.
Members of the Vancouver Island clubs have loaned or donated their bonsai and are also responsible for ongoing care and maintenance of the trees. is bonsai garden has been planned, built and maintained with many hours by Vancouver Island’s Bonsai clubs’ vol- unteers and their partners since 2012. eir creation is a bonsai artist’s joy and rewards any visitor to Victoria.
Congratulations Vancouver Island bonsai clubs.
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